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Life on Earth

How did life on earth begin?

Who knows for sure, but you might want to take a look at this interesting theory!

Diamonds May Have Jumpstarted Life on Earth

3D Internet Will Change How We Live

Great opinion piece in today's Wall Street Journal that you MUST see!

Highlights...

Virtual worlds may look like toys for the geekiest of geeks, but they have quietly slipped into the mainstream.

$345 million was invested in 39 virtual world-related companies in the first half of 2008. Last year, Gartner Research predicted that 80% of all active Internet users will have a virtual-world presence by 2011.

What auto maker would be content to put 2D pictures of a new SUV on its Web site when it can offer buyers a virtual, first-person drive down a snowy mountain road? What sculptor will want to display 2D photographs of her work when she can invite collectors on a guided tour of her virtual sculpture garden?

The Internet will evolve into a 3D space, and virtual worlds will become an integral part of human communication. Real life will never be the same.

Tampa Bay Is Clueless...

Pieces of Wiki keep zipping off into the sunset

By St Pete Times Staff
Published September 26, 2007

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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, already moved his for-profit spinoff to California. Now he's sending the mothership there, too. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit entity that runs Wikipedia and other free-content sites like Wiktionary, confirmed Tuesday that it's relocating to that other bay area, San Francisco. Wikimedia, which handles administrative tasks, has six full-time employees in downtown St. Petersburg. Spokeswoman Sandra Ordonez declined to say whether those employees would move to San Francisco. She also declined to say whether Wales, a St. Petersburg resident informally heralded as the highest-profile thing the Tampa Bay tech scene has going for it, would be sticking around. He was in Japan and couldn't be reached for comment. The foundation said that, because its main servers will remain in Tampa, it will still have a strong presence here. "We're a Web-based company, so the fact that our servers are here is a pretty big deal," Ordonez said. "We only have three (server) locations worldwide: here, Amsterdam and Seoul." In a statement, Wikimedia said it chose San Francisco to be its new home "because it is the technology center of the United States." When Wales moved Wikia to Silicon Valley last year, he offered this explanation: "We're hiring engineers out there and Web people," he said at the time. "You go where the talent is."

For an update, see...

Wikimedia pegs future on education, not profit

Chris Cadelago, Chronicle Staff Writer

Sunday, August 24, 2008