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UN: An on-line game to teach children how to save lives
As part of the 2006-2007 World Disaster Reduction Campaign “Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School” the secretariat of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction has launched an on-line game to teach children how to build safer villages and cities against disasters. Players can chose between five scenarios they will try to prevent – from earthquakes over hurricanes to flood and Tsunamis. Each scenario takes between 10 and 20 minutes to play, depending on the disaster you are trying to prevent and…
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Virtual Reality: Sony PlayStation 3 – Home™
Those who believe that over-hyped gaming platforms like SecondLife are the future for virtual communities or gaming should have a look at “Sony’s PS3 Home™ trailer”. “…Home™ is a real-time 3D, networked community that serves as a meeting place for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) users from around the world, where they can interact, communicate, join online games, shop, share content and even build their own personal spaces. Home™ will be available as a free download from the PLAYSTATION®Store and will launch directly from the PS3™ system’s Home Menu…”
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Time: Encrypt your messages online with an Enigma
German web site “enigmaco.de” has made a Flash version of the well known WWII encryption devices available online that encrypts or decrypts text. Have a try…
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Second Life: Best quote on what it is
We documented some background information on Second Life a few weeks ago. Now Robert Scoble has provided us with the best definition from an interview he has done last week at LIFT show in Geneva: He was interviewing Sister Judith Zoebelein, who manages the Vatican’s Web site and asked her: “… do you think we’ll [...]
Games: Clayman’s Dancing Chicken
Nice time waster with good sound quality. Move the mouse over the displayed keyboard to have the chicken dance…
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Second Life: Finally some useful numbers and it’s 20,000 not 2 Millions
Linden Labs Second Life really had it the last days. First the press stops praying and hyping and gets a bit more critical – see this “Boing Boing” article to name just one – and then their whole system came to a halt yesterday and is now slowly coming back up again. But what we were really waiting for and couldn’t find was that someone puts that whole hype back in line – so we provide you the figures ourselves…
…[see figures in article]…
…We think its time to get back to real life and see “Second Life” as what it is – just one of many online games with some success. On the charts with the Asian figures alone you would have problems to plot the numbers for Second Life as they are so much smaller than even those from games with medium success. And that’s after all the hype and massive increase in user numbers for Second Life…
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