Archive for 'News from Facebook'
Class To Be Held…Inside a Facebook App???
by Idoru Wellman, Herald Education Desk
On January 28, in what may be the first instance of a university course held inside Facebook, Northwestern University Philosophy Professor Peter Ludlow (known to Herald readers as Urizenus Sklar) recently attempted to hold his class, Conceptual Issues in Virtual Worlds, inside the Island Life application on Facebook. [...]
Starving Metaplace Game Gods Marooned In Facebook
Raph Koster's shipwrecked crew selling cabbage, farming supplies in FB avatar deathworld
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
Raph Koster: "We're not talking about overall plans yet… first we learn"
Game god survivors of the Metaplace world's apocalyptic loss of traction – Raph Koster and Tami Baribeau (Cuppycake) – did not perish when the Metaplace world ended [...]
Is Facebook Killing Avatars Again?
Shocking overnight account death toll!
by Senban Babii
Frightened Facebook users believe avatar hit squads are to blame for mysterious mass disappearances of e-friends from the popular MMO data mining operation social networking website's friends lists this week. Thisreporter can confirm that 45-50 people on her friends listvanished in the night – survivors who contacted the Herald [...]
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