Net Culture at Port 80: Boardwalk

What can you do on the Internet? What can you do while you're on the Internet? What can you do on the Internet that you can't do the same way -- or as well, as fast, as inexpensively -- without the Internet? What can you do on the Internet that you can't do at all without the Internet?

I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting sites to link to from this page. Feel free to suggest those you find.

Although the zine is inactive, you'll find some provocative articles in Cybersociology.

a non-profit multi-disciplinary webzine dedicated to the critical discussion of the internet, cyberspace, cyberculture and life online.

Most cyberspaces are embodied and situated spaces. As such, they are mere extensions or simulations of real spaces. ... The emerging technologies of the Internet allow us to do more than just electronically ‘simulate’ traditional forms of communication -- they also provide new means of interaction. ... It seems that if rightly explored cyberspace can play a significant role in finding a way to ensure a liveable future for all; to subordinate the extraordinary productive capacities developed by capitalism to truly human needs and purposes; and also to secure a sustainable relationship with the natural world.

The world is unbalanced between rich and poor and nothing will improve until something is done about it, members of the World Social Forum say.

The World Social Forum wrapped up several months of business with the usual proposals for making the world a better place, but the stark reality remains: All talk is meaningless unless the richest nations pitch in and help.

The forum, founded as a kind of social riposte to the capitalists who make up the World Economic Forum, hosted 28 separate conferences and more than 700 seminars dedicated to a range of subjects. Among the themes touched upon in this southern Brazilian town: the production of wealth, dealing with unemployment, labor relations, civil rights, prejudice and racism, ethics, religion and, yes, even socialism as a living and breathing concept.

Follow a baseball or football game

At ESPN's web site, you can have all the relevant stats a click away while you watch the game on TV.

Monitor markets

Access personal finances

Shop

Configure products

Compare products

Tour a home for sale

Tour a resort before you make reservations

This site features over 2000 virtual reality panoramas. These amazing photographs show you exactly what it is like to be in that particular spot - you can look in any direction, as well as up and down, and zoom in and out. It's the next best thing to being there.

9 percent of all hotel reservations were made on the Internet in 2003, up from 7 percent the year before.

What's the software behind it?

Get Around

Set your clock

Know when to leave the house

Now you can get actual arrival information — not schedules — for your stops, on your handheld Internet device. NextBus wireless access is making Passenger Information Everywhere a reality by bringing our information to wireless phones and Internet accessible devices like personal digital assistants and pagers.

Watch the movement of flights and air traffic patterns currently in use within the Bay Area. This map will show flight tracks of aircraft arriving and departing from SFO, Oakland, and San Jose Airport and other nearby general aviation airports.

Know where to go when you leave home

The GlobeXplorer image archive is the most impressive collection of aerial images available online today. We've collected images ranging from multispectral composite satellite images to 3-inch low-altitude color aerial photos. In other words, whether you require a high-resolution image of a specific property, or a beautiful color rendition of the northern hemisphere, we've got it all.

Enter an address, and our system will put you at the controls of a new and innovative way to explore your digital earth.

Consumers can access color maps, driving directions and create an extended trip with the Road Trip Planner. After they enter the address of their desired destination, MapQuest.com pinpoints the location and assembles the best route or map. Consumers can access millions of locations around the world, find places of interest, and create, save, download or email personalized maps. With the Road Trip Planner they can also customize trips and determine key stops along their route, such as sights and rest areas. MapQuest's Yellow Pages also allow people to find businesses in any city for which they don't know the address.

One of the world's largest online databases, providing free public access to a vast data store of maps and aerial photographs of the United States.

Exploring our planet by studying maps and images is a fascinating experience! Not surprisingly, the first place many people visit is their own neighborhood. You also might want to take a look at famous places such as our National Parks or your favorite sports parks. TerraServer is also a valuable resource for researchers who was to study geography, environmental issues or archeological mysteries...there are almost limitless possibilities.

Get Geeky

Download software

Share computer files

A portal for sites pilfered, plundered and otherwise not original. Send screenshots or links of sites you know are ripped, and the ripping site. Let's stop the theft of design and code.

Back up your hard drive

Get more screensavers

Use simple tools like calculators and less simple tools like office apps

National Center for Education Statistics' Create A Graph - then a screen shot will make it yours to display.

access your applications and files from any computer with a browser, anywhere you are

Search for information

While I recommend using a web-based search engine, especially Google, for quick searches, you need something more powerful for the kind of in-depth research you need to do as a professional.

Before I started using Google, I recommended a meta-search software program called Copernic 2001 Basic. It's a separate piece of software that you will download and run when you are online. It will send your search terms to many search engines and quickly collate the results. Even better, it will let you save and reuse the results on your computer. When Google gets these save and reuse features, sort of a My Google, then I probably won't use Copernic any more.

Access, save & organize your web documents and URL's from any place you go online. Safe & secure - Links to your web documents and URL's will never be lost.

This visual map of the Internet displays over two million Web sites on a single screen shot. The InternetMap™ is a new way to navigate and find information on the Web.

We want to provide inspiration and kick-start creative reactions. Everyday we start with a new theme and then we spend far too many hours searching through the gunk on the web to find the hidden diamonds. We try and find you the defining images, words and atmospheres as well as the mad, tangential, off the wall masterpieces that encapsulate that theme.

Geek Life

Social Networks

AS SOCIAL NETWORKING solutions become part of the everyday fabric of business life, we need some guidance at the meta social level. When and how should we apply these tools, and how should we respond to others who are applying them in ways that we don't want to go along with? What are the rules of engagement?

Meetup is a free service that organizes local gatherings about anything, anywhere. ... 1,101,000 people have already signed up for Meetups about 4,118 topics. ... Local special-interest groups, held at bars or restaurants.

SmartGroups is all about making life easier. It's a great, new way of organising the different groups of people in your life using email and the Internet. SmartGroups keeps you in touch, helps you to share information, manage events and even make Group decisions.

Anyone can set up and run a Group. It's really quick, very easy and it's free!

SmartGroups combines web-based Group information together with email messaging, keeping Group members updated of urgent or interesting Group issues. All SmartGroups members can control where, when and how they use the service to ensure it exactly fits their lifestyle and different Group interests.

an online community that connects people through a network of trusted friends.

We are committed to providing an online meeting place where people can socialize, make new acquaintances and find others who share their interests.

Friendster - an online community that connects people through networks of friends

Tribe.net

Our mission is to feature artists within our social sphere and to host discussion and interaction between artists in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Our hope is that through the site, visitors can learn about the artists and make connections.

Professional relationship applications that enable business professionals to leverage existing relationships to drive top line revenue and optimize the sales process. ... By automating the process of discovering who knows whom and scaling it across the entire enterprise, Spoke provides a secure, private method for getting personal introductions.

Ryze helps people make connections and grow their networks. You can network to grow your business, build your career and life, find a job and make sales. Or just keep in touch with friends.

Need an easy single-topic forum for your newsletter or web site? Or a better way to arrange a big meeting, discuss an issue, or have a family talk? Quick Topic is the ideal place for quick, personal group conversations.

This interactive website allows a group of people to communicate and exchange information over the Internet in their own private and secure area. Within each area, called an online community, participants are provided access to a suite of powerful tools that enable a group to effectively get organized, share knowledge and communicate.

Whimsy

Across this great splay of a nation walk a confused and ragged few--the unlucky in love. To them, the earth is empty and dark, and they walk it alone, crippled by loneliness and with very swollen glands. My sister is their leader.

IconTown is not just another website offering icons for download - it's an international project, inviting everyone capable of creating icons to become a member ("citizen") and take part in building a town by contributing an icon.

Games

Massively multiplayer online games! While they're hardly new (their history can be traced back to the earliest networked mainframes), no other type of gaming has so much untapped potential. Each and every year sees a new generation of online games pushing the envelope in graphics, player interaction, economics, and depth of content. These are virtual worlds, the dreams of science fiction authors played out for gamers who don't mind monthly fees!

Where did these games come from? Why are they designed the way they're designed? What's the deal with the monthly fees? What's the next big step? We've talked with experts around the globe to get a complete picture of the past, present, and future of massively multiplayer gaming. Read on to get the whole story!

EverQuest Live - Over half a million subscribers pay $12.95 per month to play fantasy adventures together.

Welcome to the world of EverQuest®, a real 3D massively multiplayer fantasy roleplaying game. Prepare to enter an enormous virtual environment-an entire world with its own diverse species, economic systems, alliances, and politics. Choose from a variety of races and classes, customize your character, and begin your quest in any number of cities of villages throughout multiple continents. Equip yourself for adventure, seek allies and knowledge, and experience a rich world of dungeons, towers, crypts, evil abbeys-anything is possible-even planes and realities beyond your imagination. Meet new friends from around the world to face epic challenges. Make yourself a noble human knight, a vicious dark elf thief, a greedy dwarven merchant, or whatever suits your desire.

other games

PlaySite -- challenge other players to games of bridge, hearts, checkers, chess, spades and a lot more.

immersive 3D worlds -

An immersive environment supported by multimedia systems that use imagery, sound, and physical interactions to fool the users' senses into believing that traditional barriers of space and time have been removed.

The Best-Selling PC Game of All Time Goes Online!

The Sims Online™ is the first online world from Will Wright, the creator of SimCity™ and The Sims™. One thing we always hear from Sims players is, "Wouldn't it be cool if the other Sims in the game were controlled by other real people?"

The Sims Online is an online world where the Sims are real. You get to be yourself or whoever you want to be. In this world you have your own piece of land to do with as you please. So, you can create a house, coffee bar, dance club, museum or whatever else you can imagine. You can explore the neighborhoods around you and meet other real Sims along the way. You'll also be able to develop a network of real Sim friends to enhance your power, wealth, reputation and social standing.

The Sims Online is a massive online world that you can access at any time. You interact with the world through one Sim that you develop over time. Everything that you buy, build or create will be there when you return.

The first online getaway that gives you the freedom to play and talk naturally while having fun and making friends.

Explore a 3D online world lived in and built by its participants - a new medium for creative self-expression, social interaction, and fun, where you can be or do almost anything. You can fly. You can discover. You can create a masterpiece-or an empire. If you can imagine it, you can do it here.

You choose your own goals. What do you want to do? Amass a vast fortune? Explore an ever-changing landscape? Meet new and exciting people? Create art? Throw wild parties? Become a world-famous clothing designer or architect? The clouds and the wind that bends all trees are run by chaos theory. The sunsets are delightful. Whatever your goals, whatever you choose to do, your Second Life starts now.

EverQuest - over half a million subscribers pay $12.95 per month to play fantasy adventures together.

The Active Worlds Universe is a community of hundreds of thousands of users that chat and build 3D virtual reality worlds in millions of kilometers of virtual territory.

3D characters - avatars

A Web showcase for the ideas and technologies of leading visionaries. ... KurzweilAI.Net focuses on the exponential growth of intelligence, both biological and machine, and the merger of the two in a post-humanist future.

This site paints a picture of the future where nanobots float through our bodies, healing sickness and augmenting our senses and cognitive abilities, and where you can be anyone you want to be in virtual reality.

Your guide to this site is Ramona, the first photorealistic, interactive, lifelike avatar (virtual personality) that you can converse with on the web. But Ramona isn't just a pretty face.

"I read the Web to you." Motorola's Mobile Internet Exchange. Click Experience MIX Demo at top.

"a chatbot inhabited with a unique human personality", capable of carrying a reasonable if not unsettling conversation. Feel free to chat.

Create emails with LifeFX Stand-In Virtual People that will speak the messages you send and receive with life-like, photo-realistic facial expressions!

An avatar is any Web3D object, humanoid or not, that is designed to represent a visitor to a Web3D multiuser environment. Features, such as behaviours, vary between the various multi-user technologies employed on the web and portability between worlds is somewhat restricted.

Our goal is to revolutionize the way that 3D assets are bought, sold and delivered by creating a new and focused digital marketplace designed to offer large selections of affordable assets while providing maximum returns to intellectual property owners.

Android World tracks the progress of the thirty-one current android
projects worldwide.


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