Second Life - what is all the fuss about?

Second Life. Heard of it? Want to know what it's all about. Follow this link to the main website - there are lots of links to the many fansites of this rapidly expanding global virtual community too. Currently 3.9 million users and counting. The issues and debates sourrounding Second Life are numerous; particularly socially and economically. Anyone currently in Second Life?

Still confused? Check out this Introductory video about Second Life


Comments please...

The iPhone - hands up who wants one?

Follow this link to see a demo of the much anticipated foray by apple into the lucrative mobile phone market. Sure to set mac-o-philes drooling the world over. Are you one of them? Post your comments.

OMG MySpace is going mobile! Do you care?

Article from the mediaGuardian pages on the latest deal MySpace has struck with Virgin Mobile to offer customers the option to manage their MySpace accounts on the move. Is this something you would do? Do you have a MySpace account? How often do you use it? What do you like about it? Comments please...

Digital Planet

Keep up to date with the latest developments in digital media from around the world by subscribing to this bbc podcast called Digital Planet. Great for increasing your knowledge in the NMT unit and to get you thinking about some of the issues that are raised. You can either download the mp3 file, subscribe to the podcast or use the BBC's 'listen again' online playback feature. So, no excuses for not being up to date! Post a comment with your ideas/opinions on any of the content of Digital Planet.

YouTube going commercial

Click here to read the BBC article about the latest moves to place ads on YouTube with the idea being to share some of the revenue to those who post the most popular videos.
Since google bought YouTube back in October 2006 many predicted this move to placing ads on the most popular video posting site on the net. Why else would google spend 1.65 billion dollars buying something that makes no money?
What do you think about this? Have YouTube sold out? Or will this make you even more keen to post your content in that you might make some money out of it? Your comments please...or are you too busy creating that goofy video that could net you thousands of pounds??

Welcome

Welcome to the TCC Media Studies New Media Technology blog. Here you will find links and information relating to the OCR 2732 Audiences and Institutions paper which is examined in the summer. Feel free to comment on any of the posts.