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Debuted August 23, 2007 at noon (in Japan) on http://www.watchme.tv/e/news/. (see previous entry on this topic for more info)

Tom Jantol of Cirque du Machinima (Anymation) reknown is back again with another brilliant short film, this time with a Rube Goldberg flavor. A cautionary tale accompanies it (more…)

YouTube has modified their comment system to incorporate a feature which should look quite familiar to users of Digg.com; basically, you can give a thumbs up or thumbs down to other users’ comments. If their implementation is fully like Digg’s, there will be a way to define a “threshold” so that comments under a certain rating level will by default not appear in one’s view.

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Well, well, what have we here? Visited www.machinima.com lately? The new look is really sharp. Really nice work, guys and gals. It’s a tremendous improvement.

I’ve got to get word to field reporter Jeff D. that he’s free to chow down! New show should be coming this weekend.

EDIT: Correction, new podcast will be released on August 31.

Just a reminder for those who might have missed it, but over on the overcast website, we’re giving away four (4) copies of Peter Rasmussen’s feature-length machinima film, Stolen Life, on DVD. Simply take this survey about the podcast (it helps if you’ve also listened to the show at least once), include your e-mail address when asked, and you’ll automatically be entered in the prize drawing.

Deadline is August 20, 2007. Winners will be announced on an August 31 overcast episode. Doesn’t matter where in the world you live (except Antarctica)… you qualify to win a copy, shipped right to your doorstep, at no cost to you! Take the brief survey today, and get in the running. Thanks!

The people behind NetQoS, the network monitoring product which uses 3d video game technology for its visualization of network activity, conducted a very interesting real world demonstration of the product a few weeks ago at the House of Blues in Anaheim, CA. I’ve blogged previously about this product, and mentioned it on the podcast, it’s a very intriguing use of machinima tech for something other than entertainment. The product is perhaps an ideal example of how real-time 3d rendering is a viable if not superior way to represent data of this kind.

Called “The NetCosm Immersion Experience,” this presentation was part of NetQoS’s afterparty for the Cisco Networkers 2007 event. Four screens of projected video were used to surround a visitor in the NetQoS world, placing you right smack in the middle of that virtual 3d space. The video below hardly does justice to what it must have been like to experience it first hand, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

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