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Life

Transvestar: A man who uses a female avatar

Post author By michael
Post date June 20, 2007

Transvestar

n. a man who uses a female avatar on popular online services such as Second Life, World of Warcraft and many others.
(alt) n. A superstar tranvestite, like Mitzi from Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

So we were having drinks with Alli Mooney and Jeremy from NGT at my place of the moment – Death & Company – last night when for some obscure reason we started chatting about female avatars and the men who use them. This sparked off one of the few cells in my gray matter which managed to survive the influence of the delightful cocktails (go for the Ramble or the Simo Moon) and kick a few lazy language related synapses into gear. The result: Transvestar. Born of cocktail and conversation. Now free to spread throughout the world. Fly my pretty, fly.

PS Some casual googling turned up zilch. Let’s hope I’m #1 soon!

Pictures from dinner with friends of Hubert Burda

Post author By michael
Post date May 21, 2007

Fun Life Supercool Tools

StarCraft II announced by Blizzard

Post author By michael
Post date May 20, 2007

OMG! Yesterday, at the Blizzard Invitational in Seoul, South Korea, Blizzard announced that they’re working on StarCraft II. If that doesn’t send shivers of unearthly delight through your spine, then you really need to go and read a bit more about the original Starcraft. In fact, why don’t you go out and buy it and spend the next few weeks losing yourself in the tightly balanced gameplay, the superb characters and one of the best control interfaces for real time strategy games ever (hint, use the keyboard shortcuts – they help). I can almost guarantee that the type of excitement the original generated in Korea will sweep the rest of the world with this next iteration. It’s definitely swept my apartment already!

Life

BarCamp / MobileCampNYC

Post author By michael
Post date May 16, 2007

BarCamp / MobileCampNYC should be a fun event this weekend organized by Alexis Rondeau of Semapedia fame. The official blurb sounds promising:

MobileCampNYC hopes to support the many voices helping to unlock the potential of a truly digital life. Topics may include – but are not limited to – mobile gaming, entrepreneurship, social mobility and presence, near field communication, physical hyperlinking, mobile storytelling, the importance of open standards, protocols, and platforms, linux based devices, and mobility on other continents.

Socialight will be out in full force – I think we’ll have the entire team there (except possibly Joel who will be touching down from Hawaii that afternoon). See you there!

Life

links for 2007-05-08

Post author By michael
Post date May 8, 2007

SourceForge.net: Sydewynder

Sydewynder is an SMS receiver and sender module written in Python for S60 phones. It can automate the responses of messages and may be used as a mobile application server in areas where setting up a traditional server may be difficult or ill

(tags: useful pys60 mobileappdesign mobile sms python)
Fidg’t: Your Social Networking Address Book

I don’t even remember what this thing was called last year but it was a bit different when we saw it in Vegas in March/April. Kudos to them for some beautiful design. It is a bit strange that they don’t support some of the largest social networks out ther

(tags: mobile mobileappdesign social_software cool)
latitude/longitude lookup (geocoding-geolocator)

Cam puts together a super simple lat/long findery tool. Very useful.

(tags: geo geocoding geolocation geotagging yahoomaps mashups)