You know about spiders for the Web. When VR sites are added to the Metaverse, their owners will want search engines to spider them. The Metaverse is essentially a VR site plus avatars. Users wear avatars while in the sites. A spider can have an avatar, perhaps a 3d cartoon…

Recently I was contacted on LinkedIn by someone who claimed he was an investor and was interested in funding my startup, Linket. It is a Delaware C Corp. He sent me 2 attachments. The first is for a bank called Masraf Al Rayan. …

I just got a US patent “Bypass a game watching platform” issued today 1 Feb 2022!The GWP refers mostly to Twitch, the pre-eminent platform for this. While the patent mostly is about gaming, it also applies to the Metaverse. (See the last section of this article.) Figure A shows a…

There has been a lot of publicity about the Metaverse. Facebook rebranded itself as Meta! Zuckerberg said he sees the Metaverse as the future, though he was also careful to say that Facebook would not own it, that others would also build it. What is the Metaverse? You make an…

In January 2022 we got a patent on combining Augmented Reality with a theme park and playing a game using cellphones. The twist is that the game is largely played outside the theme park. It can be a scavenger hunt, where players search a public area for clues and prizes…

The Web was born in 1989. It grew enormously and led to gargantuan firms like Facebook ($1 trillion cap), Google ($1.2 trillion), Amazon ($2 trillion), Apple ($2 trillion) and Microsoft ($2 trillion). No one today disputes the value of a website and a well chosen domain name. …

Yesterday there was a virtual 3 way conference by Joe Biden, Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison, announcing that Australia would get details from the US about a new generation of US designed nuclear submarines. …

For Silicon Valley this is the problem. About 4 billion use the Internet, 3.7 billion do not. Some firms increased access via low orbiting satellites or high flying balloons carrying hotspots. Or they laid fiber. All these are worthy efforts for physical outreach to those who lack connections. …