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Attention on Second Life
It's coming thick and fast now - commentary and news on which business is doing what in Second Life.
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VA Tech Says Google CEO Is “The Schmidt”
Google founder Eric Schmidt has given a donation to Virginia Tech's School of Engineering in the sum of $2 million dollars. Schmidt grew up in Blacksburg and was the son of a Virginia Tech economics professor. He was also a neighbor to Paul Torgersen a former Dean of Tech's College of Engineering and president from 1993 to 2000.
Kevin Rose Talks About Digg
Kevin Rose got a brief ten minutes to talk at the Web 2.0 Summit about what Digg knows and has learned in the last year of their amazing growth as a darling of the Web 2.0 world.
Canadian Schools Flee From US Servers
Universities in Canada fear the potential for abuse that could take place under the US Patriot Act, so to avoid the gaze of American investigators they have moved their RefWorks accounts to Ontario.
A Million-Attendee Event
This week, the Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission hosted a webcast from Jamestown, Virginia. They worked with The History Channel to create a webcast aimed at school children to teach about the first permanent English settlement in America. The event was broadcast by satellite on television, but was also available over the Internet. According to news accounts, the audience was estimated at more than one million…
Confabb Opens To Conference Attendees
Yesterday I was at Dave Winer's house and got an early look at Confabb, a Web 2.0 site that just opened this morning.
