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Sep 09
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DU Talk: Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World Event at Urbis Manchester (Free)

By Talks

Following the success of the inaugural Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World event, held on 20th February 2008, Barbican, London, NCeSS have asked us back for a re-run and are kindly hosting the second event at the Urbis Museum in Manchester on 15th September 2008.

We will be giving a talk on the latest research with a look at developments in the geoweb over the last few years – best of all its free. If your around Manchester way this coming Monday its well worth coming along…

You can view details and register via the NCeSS site.

If you cant make the event you can also catch us at the Digital Design Day in London on the 17th September whereby:

‘Digital Urbanites – Dr. Andrew Hudson-Smith and his team of Digital Urbanites from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL will be showcasing their unique cityscape virtualisation project – this time it’s London’s turn, with thoughts and information on how to visualise anything relating to the city in packages ranging from Second Life through to 3D Max and onwards to game engines such as Crysis. www.digitalurban.blogspot.com‘

See http://www.digitaldesignday.com/interactive-area/ for more details.

Sep 09
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DU Talk: Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World Event at Urbis Manchester (Free)

By Talks

Following the success of the inaugural Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World event, held on 20th February 2008, Barbican, London, NCeSS have asked us back for a re-run and are kindly hosting the second event at the Urbis Museum in Manchester on 15th September 2008.

We will be giving a talk on the latest research with a look at developments in the geoweb over the last few years – best of all its free. If your around Manchester way this coming Monday its well worth coming along…

You can view details and register via the NCeSS site.

If you cant make the event you can also catch us at the Digital Design Day in London on the 17th September whereby:

‘Digital Urbanites – Dr. Andrew Hudson-Smith and his team of Digital Urbanites from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL will be showcasing their unique cityscape virtualisation project – this time it’s London’s turn, with thoughts and information on how to visualise anything relating to the city in packages ranging from Second Life through to 3D Max and onwards to game engines such as Crysis. www.digitalurban.blogspot.com‘

See http://www.digitaldesignday.com/interactive-area/ for more details.

Sep 05
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Digital Urban Gear

By Digital Urban Gear

Thanks to our friends over at Cafe Press a range of digital urban gear is available for purchase – we especially like the messenger bag which we have personally street tested out and about around the streets of Camden Town, London.

The big news on the digital urban gear front is our first photo from a reader – Stijn Swinnen as featured below:

Stijn is pictured reading our digital urban booklet while wearing the t-shirt and accessing the blog on his pc. For such a level of dedication we are sending Stjin a digital urban mug and he’s also bagged himself a free copy of the ‘digital urban recipe book’ that will be appearing on book shelves near you sometime in the new year.

Would you like a free mug? The competition is still open for readers who send in pictures of either themselves, a friend or simply some digital urban gear pictured in the wild.

To celebrate our first give away we have cut the prices back to ‘cost’ making the messenger bag a mere $19.99.

Head over to the store for the full range of goods – now at cost price, for a limited time.

Sep 03
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State of the Metaverse 2008

By Metaverse, virtual worlds

Gary Hayes of http://www.personalizemedia.com has produced an insightful short film entitled The ‘Social Virtual’ World’s A Stage. The film takes a look at over 50 virtual world systems that currently make up the Metaverse as we know it.

Its interesting to note that amongst the first person style words no one system stands out from the rest. Its been 10 years since we started work in the Metaverse and as we noted in our post Second Life/Web 2.0? Virtual Worlds Circa 1998 Is Where It Was At… not too much has changed in the last decade.

Gary’s film is embedded below:

It is also interesting to note that the term Metaverse is coming back into fashion. It become distinctly unfashionable to talk about the Metaverse after the first web bubble burst with the term being replaced by ‘Virtual Worlds’ or ‘Virtual Environments’.

Perhaps web based terms that come into and out of fashion is the subject for a future post – how many people have used the term ‘Cyberspace’ in recent articles or conversation (?) perhaps 1998 was where it was at after all…

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