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Seems the natives are getting restless on Second Life, there are increasing reports of cyber muggings, vandalism and violence. They are undoubtedly upset about the growing bumbers of traditional businesses like Sears setting up shop. Having said that the most recent example, whilst amusing’ish, does seem to have a slightly ominous implication for democracy […]

“The selling of Bush’s Iraq debacle is one of the most important-and appalling-stories of the last half-century, and Michael Isikoff and David Corn have reported the hell out of it.” — Hendrik Hertzberg, Senior Editor, The New Yorker

Hubris is the aptly titled book by Michael Isikoff and David Corn that is a damming unravelling of […]

We tipped Mika in July last year to be a new music sensation in the UK. And we were right! He has both the No1 single and album in the UK simultaneously. It’s nice to be right, be interesting to see if he can make it in the North American market.
Sample some of his music […]

Second Life is all the rage and whilst we take the odd visit from time to time the jury is still out for me as to how I feel about the experience. Part of me is intrigued by the notion of exploring a virtual world and meeting people from all over the planet plus of […]

A picture by graffiti artist Banksy of seniors bowling with bombs entitled ‘Bombing Middle England’ has sold in London for £102,000 / C$210,000 breaking a record for his work. The picture which is made from acrylic and spray-paint on canvas, reached double its highest estimated price of £50,000 at Sotheby’s.
This beats the previous highest price […]

Product licensing is close to our hearts at Wise Buddha Towers as I used to be a Board Director of the largest licesning agency in Europe - Copyright Promotions Group. The IMG of the entertainment business if you like. In my time I have been responsible for brands such as Star Wars, Marvel - Spiderman, […]

Can you believe it Flash is 10 years old.
Remember back to the late 90’s all those ecommerce sites spending enormous sums of money creating Flash sites, flash intro’s etc but completely forgot that most people only had a dial up connection. Duh! Flash probably unwittingly played its part in the dotcom meltdown.
If you want to […]

November is going to be a great month for new tech toys, here at Wise Buddha Towers we are busy writing our Christmas lists.
Top of our request to Santa is the new iPod Shuffle which is all the incentive we need to hit the gym erm sometime in the New Year, this thing is really […]

Reuters is reporting that Janus Friis one of the cofounders of Skype and before that KaZaA has announced intentions to launch advertiser funded internet TV shortly. Code named ‘Venice’ Friis says the launch is only a couple of months away.
Apparently it will be free for anybody who has a broadband connection. Very interesting to watch […]

It seems you can’t even try and make a TV program these days without the wannabe contestants turning the audition site into a fully fledged social networking experience.
European TV Production company RDF Media have found themselves in the curious position of creating an internet presence in the most unlikely way. It created a website Islandoo.com […]