I’ve been kicking the idea of a central way to manage accounts on many social networking apps for a while now. I think it starts to go beyond just managing social-network accounts because what your really doing is managing identity.
I found this amongst the 241 the comments on mininova for a movie torrent by the now infamous ‘aXXo’ who is known for releasing “quality” Hollywood movie rips. He seems to some how produce these while the movie is still in cinemas.
Our Ripper, who art on mininova,
aXXo be thy name.
Thy torrents come.
Seeding will be done,
Here as it was on suprnova.
Give us this day our latest rips.
And forgive us our leeching,
As we forgive those that leech from us.
And lead us not on to private trackers;
But deliver us from the MPAA:
For thine is the ripping, the seeding, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
aXXo seems to have become the Robin Hood of the movie torrent scene and has many fans and rivals. By putting his name on the end of his releases it makes them easy to find but it is also in the spirit of the graffiti tagger who makes themselves notorious in a certain area. Living in Kreuzberg Berlin I know the tags ‘1UP’, ‘Just’ and ‘THC’ well as they are on every street. This gives you a feeling of place I find in a large city.
Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life, doesn’t think that building a series of separate virtual worlds is a good strategy, director of marketing Catherine Smith says. Business Week
I’ll bet she doesn’t, it would completely destroy Linden Labs thats for sure. Its like having one server for webpages controlled by one company that makes a lot of money off it. The bigger the internet become the better it became. This furthers to strengthen the idea of a 3D web platfrom.
If you were into the Transformers, and I don’t mean the little boxes that converted one voltage to another, I mean like the ‘Maniacle Megatron’ type of Transformer then you gotsta checkout the 3D break dancing Shockwave and his little pal Rumble. Decepticons are bad ass!
