New Media, Life and Work Online
An official announcement was posted on the There.com website that they will be closing their doors on March 9, 2010. We knew this would happen to a few more worlds, although I admit to being surprised at There.com’s departure. It looks like 2010 will be the year the wheat is separated from the chaff. The [...]
I think I’ll have to start doing these general “Stuff You May Have Missed” news roundups on a regular basis again. There’s just too much good stuff out there! Disclaimer: As with everything on my blog, the opinions expressed here are mine and do not reflect on Clever Zebra, the vBusiness Expo, my friends, my [...]
Catching up on my news reader for the past few weeks, and this leapt off the screen: China Bans Foreign Investment In Online Games, Virtual Worlds. Good lord! China’s perverse blanket censorship of the Internet was one thing – if the Chinese people want their thoughts to be controlled by a bureaucracy that’s their business. [...]
This week’s Big Question: Who is conspicuously missing from virtual worlds? (Answer in the comments!) I *almost* linked one of those philosophical “trends in virtual worlds” articles this week telling is “what it all means”, but then my senses returned to me just in time. Close call! Important links: Archive page of past weeks [...]
This week’s Big Question: Just how far will virtual goods go? How much influence on the real world economy are they really going to have? (Answer in the comments!) What’s really struck me this week is how good the Linden Lab company blogs are. Honestly these are real quality things, philosophy-free and entirely focused on [...]