New Media, Life and Work Online
For the first time since last August, I missed a week on the news roundup. I didn’t even realize it until mid-week. Please accept my apologies! Clever Zebra has been busier than ever (our work on OpenVCE being only one part) and until I’m 100% satisfied that everything is running better than anyone could possibly [...]
This week’s Big Question: What is the biggest missed opportunity in virtual worlds today? (Answer in the comments!) Kept it short and fast this week, but what’s here is actually pretty big. Important links: Archive page of past weeks of Business in Virtual Worlds News Connect with me on Twitter, LinkedIn, Blip.fm, or in [...]
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 [...]
While I’ve been known to go off on a rant in the past, I’ll restrain myself a little bit this time. Promise. Maybe. Every week that I do the Business in Virtual Worlds News at least one story comes out deeply concerned about the state of the hype about… something. As if we’re all very [...]