Business in Virtual Worlds
The USC Network Culture Project recently challenged the residents of Second Life to imagine new ways that virtual worlds such as Second Life could be used to make a contribution to the public good. Draxtor Despres is filing a report in 3 parts.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Headlines about virtual worlds just from the past week.
This week was a bit of a struggle. I’m in the habit of cutting mercilessly when it comes to this list, eliminating repetition, false promises and irrelevance. Even so, there are two or three stories here that are staying in because of special circumstances. It’s eating me [...]
Headlines about virtual worlds just from the past week.
This week was about trimming the fat.
I decided to stop posting about the launching of every kid’s world. Frankly, there are so many now, I’ll only really bother with the occasional one that tells a wider story about the industry as a whole (see the Build-A-Bear article). [...]
NOTE: I’m not actually affiliated with SLBA, but it’s always good to see business owners communicating so I’m be posting here. If you have a business event in a virtual world, do drop me a line!
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Press Release
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The SL Business Association announces its October event. The event will take place on Saturday, October 25, 2008 [...]
We are hoping to stimulate some discussion on the potential of using the MellaniuM application for “Industrial Archaeology” in Cultural Heritage. It has been suggested to us personally by Prof. Bob Stone of Birmingham University that virtual replicas of the remarkable inventions as developed at the advent of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain at [...]
See Part 1 here.
The USC Network Culture Project recently challenged the residents of Second Life to imagine new ways that virtual worlds such as Second Life could be used to make a contribution to the public good. Draxtor Despres is filing a report in 3 parts.
Headlines about virtual worlds just from the past week.
What a week. I actually went this entire week without posting a single blog post, which is very rare for me. Kind of nice to be able to sit down and bring myself up to date.
I did little to no editing of the roundup this week. It’s [...]
Headlines about virtual worlds just from the past week.
Lots more video, which is good because it was a bit of a slow news week. The videos are, unfortunately, just on someone’s server rather than on a streaming service like YouTube or Blip.tv, and while that might not normally be a problem they are in the [...]
The USC Network Culture Project recently challenged the residents of Second Life to imagine new ways that virtual worlds such as Second Life could be used to make a contribution to the public good.Draxtor Despres is filing a report in 3 parts.
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