Business in Virtual Worlds
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I was reminded recently that Twinity was in open beta, so I signed up and took another look. For those of you not familiar it’s a Second Life competitor that has some real potential.
You customize your avatar in much the same way (except that you can upload a picture of [...]
Last night to my absolute joy I discovered that Draxtor Despres covered the vBusiness Expo:
More business than the Draxtor thinks - there is more business success in SL than the mainstream media thinks, heck, even premiere virtual journalist Draxtor Despres got it wrong last week with asserting non-profits are the only ones to gain traction [...]
Draxtor Despres serves up yet another brilliant report, this time on The International Justice Center.
Video description: The International Justice Center opened recently in Second Life with a panel discussion featuring International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. What will the SL community do to further the cause of the forgotten and helpless of the world? Draxtor [...]
Harper’s voice carries across worlds.
When Linden Lab was first announcing that they were bringing voice to Second Life, it bothered me. Actually, I was ticked right off.
For the most part I was just sick of the grid crashing, massive lag, and an overall disappointing experience around the grid. We kept complaining, and they kept rolling [...]
Here are my eight predictions for 2008. I’ve refrained from saying anything too vague or making the obvious “things will get faster/cheaper/better” predictions, but I left in one or two things that, while obvious to people “in the industry”, may not be completely obvious to those on the outside.
I’m pretty confident about the list. Hold [...]
Johnny Lee of Carnegie Mellon University demonstrates a simple method to have a truly immersive 3D experience. The first person to take advantage of this technology in a game is going to make a mint. Now, if only someone could release software adapting this to Second Life…
Here, even more Johnny Lee coolness:
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I’m experiencing the Digital Divide, redux. What I’m discovering this time around, however, is that there’s no “right side” of the divide.
I’ve taken technologies like Voice over IP and virtual worlds for granted. They’re things that have become obvious to me, simple conventions that I use to get things [...]
On November 19th Jean Linden, Director of International Initiatives, gave a keynote address at the Metaverse 2007 conference. Although the live event in Berlin was postponed until May of next year, they were still able to hold the event in Second Life. The audio recording comes to us courtesy of Bernhard Drax, machinimist and musician [...]
La_Robotique_Cest_Fantastique_Str8nimE_viD video by M Dot Strange
M Dot’s comment on this video: So once I heard this track by Pnok I had to make an animation for it….and I did in 2 hours with Cinema 4d and After Effects ^^ Pnok’s myspace
Today I heard Jean Miller, director International Initiatives at Linden Lab (via an ultra-secret recording [...]
Video Interview: Len Brody, CEO, Now Public: From Hyperlocal to Hyperpersonal
This is an interview by Rafat Ali of paidContent.org. I thought it was particularly timely considering the recent trendiness of CNN’s I-Reports (and the Second Life version), a citizen journalism site that’s making press for… well… being a citizen journalism site. Not that IndyMedia.org hasn’t [...]
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