Papermint ScreenshotThe description could be even more specific: Papermint is in fact Vienna’s alternative to Second Life. The “3D virtual realities design company” Avaloop is creating a virtual Vienna, comicstyle; funny enough, Papermint will be 2D and has a very special look and feel.

Avatars look like little superheroes, very cute and indvidual. Right now, they are betatesting Papermint, I am curious how it will look like in the end. Unlike SL they want to concentrate on the communicative aspects of such worlds and not render reality. It is meant to be simple and easy to start. It did cost about 300 000€ devoloping, which shall be refinanced by user fees, in-game items and in-game advertising.

Read more (in German) at Futurezone (ORF) and Der Standard

Update: Here’s a (German) tv documentary:

(Disclaimer: I don’t think Avaloop ever WANTED to create something like Second Life but it is much easier to explain mentioning this successful -at least in terms of media coverage- multiplayer online reality monster..)

no comment, no tracklist, just listen it!! thanks for your patience, a new mix will come soon.. your comments are always welcome!

“StilinBerlin explores the style of Berlin. We try to document the urban, cosmopolitan and multicultural spirit of the city, we live in. Fashion can describe what a city is, so we take photos of outfits that stand out and capture within them that spirit. We hope you enjoy the Berlin style as much as we do.”

Word – check Stilinberlin!

[via Loolou in Berlin who has some nice infos in French about Berlin, streetart, clubs and such..]

Nachdem ich einigen Leuten in letzter Zeit das tolle, kostenlose Content Management System Jimdo empfohlen haben, will ich auch diese bescheidene Plattform nutzen, um über dieses wertvolle Tool zu berichten. Jimdo bietet einen ganzen Katalog von Funktionen, Layouts und Einstellungen um ratz-fatz eine Webseite zu erstellen. Navigation, Header, Gästebuch, Bildergalerie mit Slideshow inklusive Upload – ein schönes Bouquet an Seitentypen, mit dem sich schnell eine umfangreiche Seite bauen lässt. Auch RSS-Feeds, Flickr-Galerien und Videos lassen sich einfach einbauen. Im Textmodus hat man Zugriff auf den Quellcode und kann sogar noch weitere Widgets in die Seiten basteln. Das Ganze ist schnell und selbsterklärend, alles funktioniert kontextsensitiv und sollte sich auch webunaffinen Menschen schnell erschließen. Ein paar Textads werden in die Seiten eingebaut, für 5€ pro Monat kann man auf eine werbefreie Pro-version upgraden, die dazu noch weitere Features, wie z.B. mehr Speicher, beinhaltet.

Als ich letztes Wochenende auf einer Mitarbeiterkonferenz vorschlug, die Ergebnisse doch als Website zu veröffentlichen, waren die Reaktionen zunächst zweifelnd bis ablehnend (”viel zu aufwendig”) und das Erstaunen groß, als am Ende ein richtiges Onlinemagazin “echt im Netz” stand. Die Macher kommen aus Hamburg und treten sehr sympathisch auf, ich wünsche ihnen alles Gute!

Two guys that are not only very respected by me but also by a whole bunch of also very respectable internet people organize an event in Berlin to talk about “living on the net”. Johnny Haeusler (Spreeblick) and Markus Beckedahl (newthinking, netzpolitik) gather many wise und witty heads to talk about culture on the net, the power it can give to people, about blogging, communities, citizen journalism, how to join small pieces, liberate yourself and have a lot of fun doing so. Read about the conference on re-publica.de.

Tom from Musicthing made a nice video of many Daft Punk songs with the according original samples. He, in turn, was inspired by Palms Out Sounds who posted more than ten orginal songs that habe been used by Daft Punk for their hits.

Zeleke Gessesse lets the music guide his plans for the Wild Hare’s future.

Inspired by a week on the French Riviera, this mix is a collection of some old and new uplifting and dirty funky house music.

Track Listing:

1) Time to Turn Around – Dtm and Jnr Club Vox)
2) Watchin – Freemasons
3) Be Without You – Mary J Blige (Club Mix)
4) Turn Me Out – Dirty Old Ann
5) Wanna Be – Spencer Hill
6) Remedy – Asle Bjorn (Sucker DJ Remix)
7) Sex Shooter – Firefox
Same Man – Till West & DJ Delicious
9) So under pressure – Danni minogue (Steve Pitron Remix)
10) Fade – Solu Music Feat Kimblee (Grant Nelsons Big Room Vocal)
11) The Only Way Is Up – Ron Carol
12) Tell Me – Grooveland
13) Cmon Get it On – Studio B (Freemasons Mix)
14) You Got The Love – Truelove Lys and Gigi Remix

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I already liked this first FEX dj set by the hedonistic Parisien and this one’s not an inch worse. On the contrary: Takes you on a journey into the big halls, filled with smoke and strobes and the clubs filled with sweaty people. I have no idea why this kind of reduced minimal still a little trancy deephouse music catches me so much. But it’s definitely something that puts me to another level..

Download audio file (FEX.SESSION.07.mp3)

DJ FEX on Myspace
[via Roberdo]