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		<title>Virtual World Campus tools: Recruitment In The Browser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[View the online demo Watch on YouTube]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tothport.nl/672/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Play Games With Me! Promises and Pitfalls of Gameful Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don't Play Games With Me! Promises and Pitfalls of Gameful Design View more presentations from Sebastian Deterding source: http://www.raphkoster.com/2008/06/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tothport.nl/dont-play-games-with-me-promises-and-pitfalls-of-gameful-design/</link>
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		<title>Xbox 360 Kinect Fun Labs Preview Demo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, i have to say, this IS cool. Kinect Fun Labs demoïng avatar creation by scanning your real body features, and generating a meep (or what does Microsoft call em?). Interesting to see the high granularity of the tracking devices as they introduce &#8220;Finger Tracking&#8221;, allowing developers to build games (and apps..) that you can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tothport.nl/xbox-360-kinect-fun-labs-preview-demo/</link>
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		<title>Tipodean Second Life &amp; Open Simulator webviewer goes Beta as BuiltBuy.Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Browser based virtual worlds are key to mainstream acceptance of the medium. Therefor I am happy to see the Tipodean viewer go one step along the road and open up shop as BuiltBuy.Me. The service allows anyone with an OpenSimulator installation or Second Life account to connect to their world and view it in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tothport.nl/tipodean-second-life-and-open-simulator-webviewer-goes-beta-as-builtbuy-me/</link>
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		<title>Kitely as a collaboration tool with openVCE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kitely is the recently launched service to host your sim-in-the-cloud for a penny fee per hour. At the setup of your Second Life like world, it gives you three options; Start off with an empty sim, upload a OpenSimulator file or install an openVCE on your sim. I decided to have a look at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tothport.nl/kitely-as-a-collaboration-tool-with-openvce/</link>
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		<title>ipad shifts online life into offline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Back! ) With 70% of iPad2 buyers being new to the iPad, and sales going through the roof, we are going to see an increasing shift from deskchair to sofa for our daily online content consumption. The iPad encrouches heavily on television time as it is now possible to be online, but not unsociably stuck up in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tothport.nl/ipad-shifts-online-life-into-offline/</link>
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		<title>Connect with the fans, give them reasons to buy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 15 minute presentation and analysis of how Trent Reznor, the Nine Inch Nails bands frontman uses all tools available to him in the current internet climate to connect with his fans, and give them reasons to buy. Serious good, so watch it. Watch on YouTube]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tothport.nl/connect-with-the-fans-give-them-reasons-to-buy/</link>
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		<title>University of Amsterdam trials treating anxiety of outdoors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AMSTERDAM &#8211; Psychologist at the University of Amsterdam are looking for volunteers willing to participate in research aimed at  developing a new method treatment using virtual reality. This was announced this Thursday. Research among the general population of the netherlands has revealed that one in 25 of them will at some point in their life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tothport.nl/university-of-amsterdam-trials-treating-anxiety-of-outdoors/</link>
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		<title>Virtual campus helps financially disadvantaged students finish school</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch on YouTube Pepsi is handing out $1.300.000 dollars each month to fund great ideas.  HBCU is one of the organisations trying to land funds so they can set up a virtual campus with which to inform minority group students with financial difficulties how to still finish a degree with support from the HBCU funds.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tothport.nl/virtual-campus-helps-financially-disadvantaged-students/</link>
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		<title>Communicating touch and feelings from virtual worlds to real life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch on YouTube Full article here]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tothport.nl/communicating-touch-and-feelings-from-virtual-worlds-to-real-life/</link>
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