Tobias Escher at the OII

For those of you who cannot live any more without their daily dose of facebooking, here comes your perfect extension whilst you are on the move (well, if you live in the US at least): dodgeball.com. It lets you use your mobile phone to announce to your friends where you are currently so the guys [...]

In respect to one recent comment on one of Wolf’s posts about “Theft in Second Life” I just wanted to share this story with you: In its development to become ever more a mirror of the real world, Second Life can now even claim its own revolutionary (some might say terrorist) movement. Enter: the Second [...]

I recently blogged about different approaches to visualizing news. I especially liked buzztracker’s approach of visualizing the locations mentioned in news stories and the connections between them. The only thing that was missing (as I found) was an easy way to move through the data in order to see how the focus of news stories [...]

Although probably largely unnoticed from the wider world, the OII suffered a major technical setback during last week. The server that hosts the blogs along with the other personal web pages (not the OII home page though) seemed to feel a bit under-appreciated for some time since Christmas. As his cravings for attention had not [...]