YALE UNIVERSITY, US – REPUTATION ECONOMIES IN CYBERSPACE
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is proud to present Reputation Economies in Cyberspace. The symposium will be held on December 8, 2007 at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT.
This event will bring together representatives from industry, government, and academia to explore themes in online reputation, community-mediated information production, and their implications for democracy and innovation.
A distinguished group of experts will map out the terrain of reputation economies in four panels: (1) Making Your Name Online; (2) Privacy and Reputation Protection; (3) Reputation and Information Quality; and (4) Ownership of Cyber-Reputation. See below for more detail on each panel; a current list of confirmed speakers is available at the conference website.
Online registration is available now at: https://wems.worldtek.com/
RepEcon. There is a $95 registration fee, which includes lunch. Yale students and faculty and members of the press may attend for free. For more information, see: http://isp.law.yale.edu/reputation.
TOMY has debuted a battery operated piggy bank that is designed to make people save more — OR punish you if you
don’t. If the saver doesn’t feed it coins on a regular basis, the pig vibrates and otherwise complains on an hourly basis until it gets its quota. Those silly enough to ignore the squealing will eventually find the entire contents of the piggy bank strewn over the floor, as the pig eventually blows its top and petulantly opens a skull-labelled door to eject all its contents.
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‘Inside Out,’ our column about doing business outside of Japan chimes with our IT focus by considering the pros and cons of
business in the virtual community Second Life:
www.japaninc.com/mgz_nov-dec_2007_virtual-business
Travis Cardwell, an expert software engineer and programmer has also contributed a philosophical and insightful article about the rise and rise of virtual machines and how they have the potential to revolutionize business. Including his own impressive illustrative graphics, and even a haiku, readers can find out about the hottest trends in virtualization here:
www.japaninc.com/mgz_nov-dec_2007_virtualization
…- why girl power is driving the gadget revolution -Excerpt..
The 21st- century fembots crave gadgets like women in the ’50s lusted after cashmere twinsets. Yes, girls are geeks and they’re not afraid to show it.
International fashion labels Prada, Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci are only too happy to embrace the trend with the release of fashionista mobiles. Dolce & Gabbana hooked up with Motorola, Giorgio Armani with Samsung, Julien MacDonald with Sony Ericsson and Prada recently jumped into bed with LG to conceive the sophisticated new KE850 mobile.
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