Or as I like to call it – “What the..?!”
May 1 you’ll see a new option (in Japan) on the Wii. Much like what Sony wanted with Home, you’ll have your own personal space for your Mii to hang out and manage media. Your TV in the Sims-ish set-up will play actual videos downloaded from Nintendo.
My prediction? Anime. I do realize that I may be going out on a limb with such a gutsy prediction.
It seems there are also places in your virtual hangout that when you click on them take you to ads. How…exciting?
My guess is that you won’t be able to interact real-time with other people, but you’ll probably send messages to other Wiis. What would be interesting would be VC game demos on a virtual system.
It’s nice to see that the current console to popularize avatars (understanding that there was previously Second Life and Alpha World) is getting in on the virtual world idea.
Also, will the NSA approve the new First Blackberry (Blackberry One?) for Obama? It’s interesting that this article comes out alongside an article about triangulating locations for prison-smuggled phones.
One billion apps downloaded from iTunes. Craziness.
Japan’s paying immigrants from Latin America to go home and never seek work in Japan again. Spain did this, but didn’t make too many headlines. It’s interesting the types of jobs that the immigrants took:
“kitsui, kitanai, kiken” — meaning “hard, dirty, dangerous”
I can’t remember which comedian it was (or demotivational poster) that said that if your job could be replaced by a guy who doesn’t understand English, your job stinks and will probably be replaced by robots.
There’s an interesting social experiment going on with Facebook and voting. The ghost of Benjamin Franklin approves.
I see this photo and I think The Office.
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