Substack vs. DAOstack. An alternative history of platforms, publishing, politics, and power. By Jonathan Glick, Tal Shachar & Jarrod Dicker. There’s an alternative story of Substack. (more)

How to Make Money in Decentraland. What sets Decentraland apart from other virtual worlds is its ability to provide lucrative investment opportunities. Created by Esteban and Ari Meilich in 2015, Decentraland is the first and most popular crypto-based virtual reality world. Its contents range from interactive systems like casinos and games to 3D scenes, and you can buy and sell them and generate profits. (more)

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Decentraland is a decentralised 3D virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain; it was opened to the public in February 2020, and is overseen by the nonprofit Decentraland Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentraland (more)

A federated identity in information technology is the means of linking a person's digital identity and attributes, stored across multiple distinct identity management systems.[1] Federated identity is related to single sign-on (SSO), in which a user's single authentication ticket, or token, is trusted across multiple IT systems or even organizations.[2][3] SSO is a subset of federated identity management, as it relates only to authentication and is understood on the level of technical interoperability and it would not be possible without some sort of federation.[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_identity

Founder Gavin Wood: Dr. Gavin James Wood is an English computer scientist, co-founder of Ethereum and creator of Polkadot and Kusama.[1][2]... Prior to developing Ethereum, Wood worked as a research scientist at Microsoft.[1] He co-founded Ethereum, which he has described as "one computer for the entire planet,"[3] with Vitalik Buterin and others during 2013–2014.[4] Wood proposed and helped develop Solidity,[5] a programming language for writing smart contracts and released the Yellow Paper defining the Ethereum Virtual Machine,[6][7] the runtime system for Smart contracts in Ethereum, in 2014.[8] He also served as the Ethereum Foundation's first chief technology officer.[9][10] Wood left Ethereum in 2016.[11]... He founded the Web3 Foundation, a nonprofit organization focusing on decentralised internet infrastructure and technology, starting with the Polkadot network.[10] In comparison to Ethereum's Proof of Work mechanism, Polkadot relies on Proof of Stake mechanism and allows developers to create their own blockchain that can talk to other ledgers, forming a system of parachains. Developers can decide what kind of transaction fees to charge and how fast to confirm blocks of transactions across the digital ledgers. In 2019, he founded Kusama, an early stage experimental development environment for Polkadot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Wood See also Web3.

Not just the OpenWeb, but a web with Decentralization. (more)

see Unity

Unity is a cross-platform game engine developed by Unity Technologies, first announced and released in June 2005 at Apple Inc.'s Worldwide Developers Conference as a Mac OS X-exclusive game engine. The engine has since been gradually extended to support a variety of desktop, mobile, console and virtual reality platforms. It is particularly popular for iOS and Android mobile game development and used for games such as Pokemon Go, Monument Valley, Call of Duty: Mobile, Beat Saber and Cuphead.[4] It is cited to be easy to use for beginner developers and is popular for Indie game development http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(game_engine) (more)

Create your FluxGarden account, confirm your email, pay. Hit the Home link and it will take you to your inner/private FrontPage, which includes a link to your outer/public FrontPage. (more)

Mike Caulfield is currently (2014) the director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University Vancouver. (Before that he was employed by Keene State College as an instructional designer, and by MIT as director of community outreach for the Open Course Ware Consortium. (more)

The Digital Polarization Initiative, or “DigiPo”, is ADP's national effort to build student civic, information and web literacy by having students participate in a broad, cross-institutional project to fact-check, annotate, and provide context to the different news stories that show up in our Twitter and Facebook feeds. DigiPo is spearheaded by ADP's inaugural Civic Fellow Mike Caulfield of Washington State University Vancouver. https://www.aascu.org/AcademicAffairs/ADP/DigiPo/

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Mike Caulfield: Wikity, One Year Later. The shortest explanation of Wikity I can provide is this: Wikity is social bookmarks, wikified. (Social Bookmarking) (more)

Mike Caulfield project to build some Smallest Federated Wiki features into WordPress (because it's easier to spread, esp to the C-Panel world). (more)

Franco Zeoli: Introducing the Decentraland Team. VR hardware is on the verge of mass adoption. We’ve discussed how the impact on daily life will be huge. (more)

Brace Yourselves, WEB 3.0 is Coming! (All About the Spatial Web). A revolution is coming. Every day, we are moving closer to WEB 3.0 — the creation of the Spatial Web. (more)

We need to kick Big Tech out of the Metaverse. We work, learn, live and play in virtual spaces and digital communities... Video game worlds have become so much more than play, with players hanging out in lobbies and splurging billions on the latest skins and avatar mods, or enjoying concerts in virtual reality. (more)

Does Decentraland have a future? I believe that a successful Decentraland, or the product that replaces it, will require the following: - VR implementation - Orders of magnitude better graphics - Native and intuitive tools that allow artists to create and build with little to no technical knowledge (more)