Business in Virtual Worlds
via 2ubh
At the Metanomics meet yesterday someone mentioned how all of these worlds springing up lately weren’t interfacing. They saw that as a problem. The Metaverse is coming, but it’s coming fractured.
I’m starting to realize that it’s a good thing.
Web 2.0 applications don’t all communicate with each other, and while there is some demand [...]
One of my favorite Second Life related websites is Your2ndPlace. It’s this chaotic mashup of raw data, personal drama, and insight into the life of the small business person. The other day Sarah Nerd posted Philip Linden Office Hour Meeting September 10th 2007, a completely unabridged transcript of an open meeting held in-world by the [...]
Remember this?
A student was sitting in a library, minding his own business, when police officers doing random ID checks (in a library?!?) demanded he show his ID. He told them to go away and stop bothering him. They tried to arrest him. He didn’t get excited about the idea.
Apparently what he should have said was: [...]
[Update: I've just found PlayNoEvil's discoveries about Integrity. Click here to check it out.]
There are two little bits of news that people are, largely, shrugging off as inconsequential.
First there’s the news that the IRS is thumbing through records in Second Life, looking at your financials. This, of course, is happening to you whether or [...]
From SaveTheInternet:
During the live Lollapalooza Webcast of a concert by the Seattle-based super-group, the telco giant muted lead singer Eddie Vedder just as he launched into a lyric against President George Bush. The lines — “George Bush, leave this world alone” and “George Bush find yourself another home” were somehow lost in the mix.
Here’s the [...]
This morning my Twitter feed tweeted about a takedown notice over on TechCrunch. Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of the Harry Potter books, wants them to remove the article that mentions that the latest Harry Potter novel has had all its pages photographed is available for download through The Pirate Bay. USA Today, The Wall Street [...]
On my way home there’s this tunnel I pass through. It periodically fills with graffiti and then gets wiped clean. The really good graffiti doesn’t appear here. The good stuff ends up on a wall between two lanes of the highway that few but the most stalwart urban explorers ever see. The tunnel kind of [...]
