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Summertime slowdown, appropriate place on the Gartner hype cycle or a real move out of the virtual worlds? You be the judge as Michael M, Matt and Steven discuss a couple of recent articles that observe that there is a real/perceived slowdown in 3D Internet virtual worlds traffic. These hoopy froods continue the episode recorded on 3 Aug with an ecologically friendly print solution and a roundup of old and new filesharing services.

Listener links
Steven Uniack
Kiva Microcredit & Microlending — http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=15133
Brothers communicating only via video blogging — http://www.brotherhood2.com/

Robert Myers
Dogear tools — http://dogear.tap.ibm.com/toolbox?lang=en_US

Obligatory 3D Internet
Wired magazine article, Lonely Planet — http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-08/ff_sheep#
The Long Tail — http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/07/why-i-gave-up-o.html
Chris Anderson’s Long Tail talk at Ted — http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/72
Gartner Group hypecycle visuals — http://www.geospatialsemanticweb.com/2006/08/10/gartners-hype-cycle-for-emerging-technologies-2006
Gartner Group hype cycle web reference — http://www.gartner.com/pages/story.php.id.8795.s.8.jsp
Crankygeeks.com — http://www.crankygeeks.com/
Senator plays WOW, level 70 priest — http://www.digitalbattle.com/2007/07/25/senator-plays-wow-has-lvl-70-priest/
Paleray’s WOW profile on The Armory — http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Silver+Hand&n=Paleray
WOW as the new golf — http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1922782,00.asp
Lord of the Rings Online — http://www.lotro.com/
ID Software (home of Doom & Quake) — http://www.idsoftware.com/

Going Green
Greenprint — http://www.printgreener.com/

Filesharing Fun
Going down the Tubes — http://www.tubesnow.com/
TechSmith — http://www.techsmith.com/
Jing Project — http://www.jingproject.com/
Cattail — http://cattail.cambridge.ibm.com/cattail/
Groove — http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/groove/FX100487641033.aspx

Final Thought #1 — stay tuned for final thought #2
Final Thought #2 — don’t panic

Discovered after the show & while creating the show notes, a link to the BBC-hosted online encyclopedic guide to Life, the Universe and Everything.
h2g2 — http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/

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