Business in Virtual Worlds
Headlines about virtual worlds just from the past week.
It’s my 33rd birthday today, but that’s no excuse to fall behind. Straight to the point, let’s see what’s out there!
Past weeks:
Nov 03-09 2008
Oct 27 - Nov 02 2008
Oct 20-26 2008
Oct 13-19 2008
Oct 6-12 2008
Sept 29 - Oct 5 2008
Sept 22-28 2008
Sept 15-21 2008
Sept 8-14 2008
Sept 1-7 [...]
Headlines about virtual worlds just from the past week.
Question: should this weekly post become a podcast? What about a weekly video podcast? Post a comment or drop me an email, let me know if you’d listen.
Lots of stuff this week. I probably could have trimmed the fat a bit, but I have to admit that [...]
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 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). [...]
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.
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 [...]
Headlines about virtual worlds just from the past week.
I have to admit that there’s a lot of non-news news here. If you’ve been following things from one week to the next many of these stories simply read as “more of the same”.
So I’m going to violate the #1 rule of web 2.0 and advise [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Anne Laurent, a consultant with the Atlantic Media Company, sent this in. It’s a great on-the-ground look at a federal agency taking their first steps into the virtual world. This is a rare look at the struggles with bureaucracy, fighting preconceptions, surprise billing hurdles, and handling contracts - you know, the non-flashy stuff nobody covers [...]
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