New Media, Life and Work Online
If you’re able to get a half-hour cleared at 2pm SLT today, do join us in Second Life (SLurl) for the next session of Virtual Worlds Keynote. Hélène Zuili, CEO of MakeMyWorlds will give a case study entitled “Real World Expos in Virtual Spaces”. If you’ve ever wondered about a true marriage of real and [...]
Clear a half-hour of your schedule at 4pm SLT and join us in Second Life (SLurl) as our guest Jonena Relth, President of TBD Consulting, gives a 15 minute presentation entitled: “Why We Sold Our Real Building and Went Totally Virtual”. We’ll be recording and broadcasting live through Treet.tv. If tough economic times have driven [...]
I’m seeing signs of the new rush into virtual worlds beginning. Let me give you a few references: Myst Online is back! Why does this mean anything? Well, it failed twice. The game just isn’t financially viable. The creators, however, just switched the lights on and aren’t even worried about making any money out of [...]
In creating and running a wide variety of online events over the last few years, one thing has remained consistent: people undervalue information directly in proportion to how convenient it is to acquire. Ask yourself: if the meeting is easier to attend, was the meeting just as worthwhile? More? Less? Oddly enough, since most of [...]
We had two big setbacks in the virtual worlds industry these past few months. Metaplace closed its doors due to some low numbers. Personally, I think this was a case of having built for tinkerers first, rather than creating a bunch of games and then saying: “You can also tinker!” The gratification was seriously delayed. [...]