Comments on: Need to Catch Up With Digital Natives? Check These Seven Projects to Spread Your Digital Wings http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/09/18/need-to-catch-up-with-digital-natives-check-these-seven-projects-to-spread-your-digital-wings/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:14:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Digital Natives? Or Neo-Traditionalists? « The Scholarly Kitchen http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/09/18/need-to-catch-up-with-digital-natives-check-these-seven-projects-to-spread-your-digital-wings/comment-page-1/#comment-83495 Digital Natives? Or Neo-Traditionalists? « The Scholarly Kitchen Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:59:53 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=42172#comment-83495 [...] Rex Hammock has an interesting post about “digital natives” and the idea that younger people possess capabilities with digital technologies that their older counterparts can&#821... [...] [...] Rex Hammock has an interesting post about “digital natives” and the idea that younger people possess capabilities with digital technologies that their older counterparts can&#821… [...]

]]> By: Miramon http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/09/18/need-to-catch-up-with-digital-natives-check-these-seven-projects-to-spread-your-digital-wings/comment-page-1/#comment-83309 Miramon Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:09:22 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=42172#comment-83309 By the way, though I haven't even tried it, I'd be infinitely more inclined to prefer Google SketchUp to Second Life for virtual architecture. Apparently version 7.1 has lots of cool new features to work together with Google Maps. By the way, though I haven’t even tried it, I’d be infinitely more inclined to prefer Google SketchUp to Second Life for virtual architecture.

Apparently version 7.1 has lots of cool new features to work together with Google Maps.

]]> By: Miramon http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/09/18/need-to-catch-up-with-digital-natives-check-these-seven-projects-to-spread-your-digital-wings/comment-page-1/#comment-83109 Miramon Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:36:05 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=42172#comment-83109 Xtranormal looks cute -- kind of like an animated version of lolcats -- and doink looks nice too, but I'd be surprised if 1 in 1000 under-25-year-olds have ever constructed an animation using those or any other tools or services. As a former game designer, I also have to object to Second Life. I think there are many better tools available -- inexpensive ones, too. I don't think Second Life would have survived this long if not for its popular "adult" areas. Xtranormal looks cute — kind of like an animated version of lolcats — and doink looks nice too, but I’d be surprised if 1 in 1000 under-25-year-olds have ever constructed an animation using those or any other tools or services.

As a former game designer, I also have to object to Second Life. I think there are many better tools available — inexpensive ones, too. I don’t think Second Life would have survived this long if not for its popular “adult” areas.

]]> By: Karen Miller http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/09/18/need-to-catch-up-with-digital-natives-check-these-seven-projects-to-spread-your-digital-wings/comment-page-1/#comment-82868 Karen Miller Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:49:01 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=42172#comment-82868 An eighth option "to spread your digital wings" is available from a Boston start up http://www.doink.com This Web 2.0 site provides free drawing and animation tools to do something as simple as a quick sketch or a sophisticated vector animation. Even if you can't draw, you can animate by using art shared by the DoInk community. Your DoInk clips can be embedded in a blog, site, FaceBook, MySpace or pushed to YouTube. An eighth option “to spread your digital wings” is available from a Boston start up http://www.doink.com This Web 2.0 site provides free drawing and animation tools to do something as simple as a quick sketch or a sophisticated vector animation. Even if you can’t draw, you can animate by using art shared by the DoInk community. Your DoInk clips can be embedded in a blog, site, FaceBook, MySpace or pushed to YouTube.

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