Business in Virtual Worlds
Last week I had mentioned that I was planning some experiments to answer two questions:
Can I design new tools that enable new ways for small business to work?
How many ways can I experiment directly with selling a real-world product in Second Life?
These are not small questions! As things are developing, I’m facing the possibility of [...]
I checked in with realXtend over the weekend. They’re up to version 0.3 now, and showing some serious promise.
For those of you unfamiliar: this is a virtual world technology based on Second Life. They’ve added some major features, including “meshes” (the graphic component almost every 3D environment but Second Life uses) and the ability [...]
This comes up a lot:
What is the difference between a meeting in a virtual world and a conference call?
Here’s your definitive answer.
For someone very new to meetings in a virtual environment, this question makes a lot of sense. 15 minutes into their first meeting they stop looking at the screen, start poking around in some [...]
This is me playing a little “Sympathy for the Devil”. In this case, I suppose the Devil would be the Disney Corporation.
As I’m typing this I have YouTube open in another window going through a playlist of old Fats Waller tunes from 1943. Some of you may have been following my Twitter feed where I [...]
Tateru Nino posted a thoughtful piece at Massively entitled “A Second Life corporate grid: When, not if“. A specialized “for-business” version of Second Life has to happen eventually for 3 basic reasons:
It’s easier (meaning cheaper) to manage than an “anything goes” space. Security on all levels is a snap.
It could still be connected to the [...]
Just in case you weren’t already aware of this most worthy project, here’s an update on the One Laptop per Child project.
http://www.ted.com Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the production line, he recaps the controversies [...]
It’s hardly news that there are small businesses in operation in virtual worlds. What I’ve noticed, however, is that many people in the industry automatically assume these are businesses that deal exclusively in virtual goods - programmers, avatar clothing designers, building artists, that kind of thing.
The case for Universities is well-known, to be sure - [...]
My good friend Annie Ok just sent me this:
Ah, it’s a beautiful thing. If you see something missing, swing by Dipity and make an addition.
This is wild: a (mostly) complete timeline of Internet memes. (Things that get passed around a lot.)
Brilliant work via @Intellagirl via Charles Aruther via John Naughton via Dipity (the timeline people). Hmm. The story of how this ended up in my hands is the story of the Internet, isn’t it?
The vBusiness Expo launches tomorrow. Sitting here at my keyboard tonight I was tempted, once again, into thinking about how bleeding edge what we were attempting was. A large congregation of people, using custom software, to meet each other in a way that very nearly approximates the physical in its benefits, and in some ways [...]
