The Slews with Pooky Amsterdam & Hydra Shaftoe June 5th

From the outerside of the universal spectrum to the tiny core that knows all inside your nucleaic acids,,,,covering the Metaverse in ways we cant speak of on TV…This…is….the….Slews

P: Good evening Second Nation, and here now the Slews

H: Shto te dely-ish vecherome? That is what are you doing tonight in Russian. They are going to be in SecondLife.

P: Google has signed a deal to build a series of research and development offices at a Nasa lab in Silicon Valley.
The search giant will lease over a million square feet of office space at Nasa’s Ames Research Center in Google’s home town of Mountain View, California.

H: The space agency also hopes that the deal will boost its presence in the tech world. & bring new meaning to the :search” for intelligent life in oute rspace.

P: When does HMI become TMI? In a Multi-Year Study With AT&T, Cisco, IBM, LSI, Oracle, and others too large not to mention, research will begin to Examine the Quantity and Quality of the Global Information Industry.

H: “As a partnership between industry and academics there is a need to measure, and understand the implications of dramatic growth in digital information. I mean you cant know everything Pooky Where would you put it?

P: “As the costs per byte of creating, storing, and moving data fall, the actual amount is rising exponentially. We know that overall IT increases productivity and human welfare, but not all information is equally valuable. I need to know what is in my ever expanding inventory, never mind the universe

H: Shorter is better- Employers seeking to decrease interruptions should have workers use instant messaging. research shows this is time saving substitute for other more disruptive phonecalls, e-mail, and face-to-face conversations. Sound bite is everything! Chomps

P: We are what we magnitize! The gene MagA could become a valuable tool for tracking cells’ movement through the body via MRI, MagA comes from magnetotactic bacteria, which can even sense the Earth’s magnetic field & magnetic fields can penetrate tissues more easily than light. MagA also knows when my secret crush has just logged on.

H: Pinpointed Images from inside the body? It can be done with tiny cameras which the patient has to swallow. Where In the past there was no way to control the device as it passed through the body. Now it can be steered and stopped where desired.

P: .Interior cam Scientists from Hamburg, London and Sankt Ingbert have developed the first-ever control system for the camera pill.

H: Flying cam – When The Alaska Space Grant Program and the Arctic Amateur Radio Club formed the Balloon Experiment And Research Program — or B.E.A.R. for short — in December 2007. the aim was to launch a high altitude balloon equipped with two amateur radio signals and more

P: We love bears! Everyone has to be a little bear sometime! WE love electirict too Electricity from the exhaust pipe Researchers are working on a thermoelectric generator that converts the heat from car exhaust fumes into electricity.

H: After seven years of work, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built a system that relies on the “noise” of jiggling electrons as a basis for measuring temperatures with extreme precision.

P: The system is nearly precise enough now to help update some of the crucial underpinnings of science, including the 54-year-old definition of the Kelvin, Get ready for a whole new ball of melting wax!

H: NASA is using Twitter to communicate with its closest friends on Earth. The Phoenix Mars Lander account on Twitter is twitter.com/marsphoenix, and it started posting to twitter May 7 from interplanetary space.

P: In that short time, it’s accumulated about 15,000 followers, making it the 14th most popular Twitter in the galaxy,. The Phoenix has twittered! ” Looking forward to an exciting day on Mars”
Workout mental Central “Lumosity.com has seen tremendous demand from users and partners alike by leveraging the power of the Web to deliver brain fitness. WiiMental

H: Google’s plan to allow users to access multiple social networks under a single ID hit a snag as Facebook announced it would not let its members sign in using Google’s “Friend Connect” service, owing to privacy concerns.

P:They are Just jealous!

H: Social media kills advertising, because people are more interested in each other [online] and less interested in watching ads.

P; response rates for standard banner ads are now under 1% -social media is the next frontier for major marketers to attack. You have been warned

H: It had to happen someday - “A Harry Potter multi-player online role playing game is going to come out from Warner bros. You can bet your broomstick on it.

P:They are investigating the possibility of creating their own MMORPG, but unfortunately do not have any further details to share Check your crystal ball for future information

H: Strategy Analytics this week released its forecast of virtual world adoptions-

P: I thought you could only adopt someone pretending to be an ickle bwaby on habbo?

H: the study shows that over the next ten years some 22 percent of global broadband users will have registered for one or more virtual worlds resulting in a market approaching one billion people

P; While fewer than 10 percent of virtual world registrants actually become active users; this will increase to 27 percent of users by 2017. Virtual worlds, such as Sulake’s Habbo Hotel, have registered nearly 100 million , and i has 10 million unique monthly visitors, while Second Life has a similar pattern, with 12 million registrants and about one million active users

H: That’s more conservative than other predictions. For example, Gartner predicted that 80% of Internet users will have some involvement in virtual worlds by 2011.

P: Sony’s Home will soon “roll out to the public Throughout the development process, the team has released tidbits of new information, features, and plans for the console-based virtual world, making it seem like the Gmail-style beta could be a long, ongoing (unending?) process of iterating and updating.

H: Engineering & Computer Simulations announced last week that it had been awarded a $3.7 million contract to expand the National Guard Joint Training Directorate’s virtual world for collaboration,the Emergency Management Nexus. this will be attached to our previously reported Office of Homeland Security.

P: An MSU professor of educational psychology and technology wanted to teach the world about Chinese culture . To do so, he created Zon/New Chengo, a virtual world where users can live and learn inn virtual china or go to world of warcraft

H: In NYC it is Internet week! One exciting event is to Learn how to launch your Silicon Alley startup for $198 during a park picnic.
Pooky are you going?

P: Yes I am and will try some cross world marketing & interoperability.

H: What do you mean?

P: Im going to hand out cards telling people to watch the show on slcn.tv

H: Last October, a brain-computer interface from Keio University demoed which allowed users to move about in Second Life using only their minds.

P: The goal was to make it a tool for physically handicapped users to interact with others in the virtual environment. Today the researchers said that a man who could not move his arms and legs was able to control a Second Life avatar via the three electrodes in his brain and then communicate with other users through an attached microphone.

H: The researchers say the system could add motivation to patients who are too depressed to go through rehab and, with other tools like a mentally controlled text message system, enable anyone to go through their daily activities in the virtual world.

P: In the near future, they would be able to stroll through Second Life shopping malls with their brain waves… and click to make a purchase,” I want it just took on a WHOLE new meaning.

H: Research over the last two years at the iAsk Center confirms what recent outside studies are showing: Online users are often more “virtually” honest than they are in real life because of their anonymity and ability to shed their external appearance.

P: what is seen regularly at the iAsk Center shows our avas may be more truthful about their feelings and opinions. This may be due to our responding here not as the person we are in real life but as the person we truly feel we are.

H: Bring it on Generation V as in Virtual! So marketers are twigging that If companies follow a truly persona-centric approach, they can use the highly relevant information the avatar gives.

P: Although the real person may never be known, far more intimate information of the persona’s actions, personality, lifestyle habits and attitudes can be collected and exploited for business goals.”I said you should be warned!

H: Recently seen in Sl are Ideabots- talk to a robot -they can be stationed anywhere in the virtual world and accessed via IM at anytime from any place. Once a user interacts with a Bot, they will be invited to take part in the research study, screened according to the panel’s demographic standards and then walked through the survey.

P: Where as an avatar you will reveal all your REAl innermost feelings- I would- unless I was asked about my secret crush.

H: And Sl newest Sim celebrates adventurous people. More than 500 years ago, Portuguese begun one adventure that took then all over the planet discovering new worlds. Today, exploring is focused on traveling not only in the real world but virtual worlds too.

P: The Portugese Sim debuted in Sl this past weekend indicating the beginning of new adventures and discoveries through SL through islands and regions, some based on reality, others on imagination.

H: But how do they really feel Pooky?

P: I don’t know you will have to send them an IM inworld through an infobot to find out. And that is the Slews.