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Sharing my life story from a virtual perspective

Trends in the Living Networks

Last week on The Virtual Excellence Show our scheduled guest was not able to make it at short notice, so I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to share my own life story and how it relates to the virtual. Hi, welcome to The Virtual Excellence Show. So I thought it’d be worth sharing my story of the virtual.

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Big Fish Games to pay $155M and tweak games as part of class action settlement over gambling

GeekWire

Several other lawsuits were filed in the wake of the federal appeals court decision, challenging the legality of social games in Washington. Big Fish Casino is a series of games like slots, blackjack, and roulette that use virtual chips. Founded in 2002, Big Fish has an additional office in Oakland, Calif.

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Futurist proved correct! …and today describes the extraordinary social technologies of 2016 (release)

Trends in the Living Networks

…and today describes the extraordinary social technologies of 2016. Ross’s second book, Living Networks , published in 2002, opens with a description of corporate blogging, and discusses the idea of social networks years before MySpace or Facebook existed , as well as the rise of “micro-messages,” anticipating the Twitter phenomenon.

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‘Myst’ remake confirmed for Aug. 26 release date, on PC, Mac, Oculus, and Xbox Game Pass

GeekWire

Like many of Cyan’s recent releases, Myst 2021 has been made with virtual reality in mind, and will initially be available on both the Oculus desktop app and the Quest headset. Myst was the best-selling PC game of all time between 1993 and 2002, and is widely credited with encouraging the consumer adoption of the CD-ROM drive.

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Meet 6 women of color-led startups that pitched their businesses in Seattle

GeekWire

. “Unfortunately, too many people have just not had exposure, or any reason to meet people outside of their network,” said Johnson, who began her career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs before founding IFEL with her father in 2002. Reetu Gupta.

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

I wrote about proximity dating in my 2002 book Living Networks and on this blog in early 2003 , at the time referring to Imahima, an early player in this space in Japan. I see a parallel path to browser-based social networking. And it will help us meet new people for dating, business and friendship. Facebook dating status for a bar.

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Tech Blogs – Best Must Read Tech Resources 2019

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The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs.

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