Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They found one in Electric Communities, a three-year-old start-up whose first product, a rich virtual world called Microcosm, proved too unwieldy for today's Web and has yet to be released. But CEO Larry Samuels had one edge over his rivals: his company wasn't (quite) bankrupt. Last spring, in a set of cash-free stock swaps, E.C. acquired both the Palace and OnLive Technologies, whose audio software lets multiple users talk live over the Net. In August, Samuels relaunched the Palace--and started giving the software away...
That's when the fun starts. A software upgrade due this month adds two crucial community-building features, paging and searching, that will let users locate and chat with anyone anywhere in palacespace. The OnLive audio software and Microcosm wait in the wings. And the updated servers set for release early next year will let E.C. finally start corralling those thousands of breakaway palaces--and festooning their screens with...
...opening drive of the second half, Dartmouth converted on third down and had the ball on its 46-yard line. An incompletion and two sacks later, it was punting from its 38-yard line. That drive was a microcosm of how the first three quarters went for the Big Green...
Lauding Harvard for its student diversity, the College's handbook for first-year parents proclaims "when all is well" each dorm should be a "microcosm" of the Harvard community--racially, geographically and on the basis of student interests...
...ideas," says a mid-level government official in Suzhou, a city 50 miles west of Shanghai. "But even he is too weak to take on all the problems in China." The official then details the extent of corruption, inefficient industry, nepotism and financial chaos that plague his city, a microcosm of the mess China is in. Top cadres routinely "steal" houses for their children, he says, while others divert business loans to their own accounts and then walk away from the repayments. "It goes right to the top. The local party secretary's office was so expensively decorated--they...