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September 2007
The Archives
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09.30.07Sleek me up – Giorgio Armani in SLCouldn't help it, I mean it's wonderful that Giorgio Armani has opened a store in Second Life and sure I'll go check out the threads, but they'd better not cost 10,000 Lindens and really, what I really want is Gauthier! So much more Neko-like I'd say. Armani store opening story in Reuters.
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09.30.07Hey baby, lookin for a date?And in my continuing amazement at how fragmented our metaverse will become, now a Red Light district of our very own! Forget about Amsterdam in Second Life! Now, a whole world devoted to dating, hookers, strippers, and getting down and dirty. "When you download it and go in, you'll find it's very much like being in Amsterdam's red light district," said Ray Schwartz, president of Nightcandy, the porn site that developed Red Light World, "without having to worry about some of the strange people that gravitate to that place." (NOTE: X-RATED CONTENT ON NEXT PAGE!!) Continue Reading...
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09.30.07Hey buddy, wanna buy a planet?I had missed this previous post but thought I'd try to do some catch-up on Entropia. Entropia Universe, the leading virtual worlds platform for interactive entertainment, community building and e-commerce using a real cash economy, boasts the Most Valuable Virtual Items and Real Estate of all the virtual worlds. The new 2008 Guinness World Records book features Club NEVERDIE, an asteroid space resort bought for $100,000 USD by famous gamer Jon NEVERDIE Jacobs as "The Most Expensive Virtual Object." The asteroid space resort which boasts a nightclub, shopping mall, 1000 apartment complexes, commercial space ship docking, mega sports stadium, and hunting ...
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09.27.07The Microverse version of the MetaverseWhy wait for a future in which little mini islands of Second Life spin off into pods that are attached to MySpace or Facebook or hi5? The future is here goshdarnit! 3B.net let's you: The thing with 3B is that you can make it totally YOURS, it's your unique 3D space. And 3B is incredibly easy to use, it's simpler than uploading a photo to the web and FREE. And if you're in the mood, you can share your 3B village with your friends. You can even create your own avatar and hang out with them virtually and wander around 3B villages, ...
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09.27.0720 Million ‘Youts’ Go Virtual by 2011This is starting to feel sometimes like reading back issues of the Red Herring. In any case, the stats: "These companies are on the vanguard. Definitely from a marketers' perspective, virtual worlds haven't gotten to the point of social networks. Everyone wants to use social networks to reach a youth audience. Virtual worlds are where social networks were a year or two ago."
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09.27.07Come inside, I’d like to show you somethingI'd like to hit on a few of the latter words in the tag for this blog - about spirituality and creativity. So I'm going to take a bit of a detour here from worrying about Google and the Lindens and talk about how I feel. My mind can't stay still for long so you can standby for the next comment or random rant if you prefer. We'll be talking about branding and technology again in the morning. But if you'd like, let's talk about fears for a second, and hope. Come inside, for a minute, I'd like to show you something. Continue ...
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09.26.07Google and Virtual Worlds: AddendumOne other thought and a semi amendment to my last post. Google's social platform, currently in Beta, also seems like an obvious choice for extending the virtual worlds concept within the Google 'product development scheme". Orkut promises to allow you to: Connect with friends and family using scraps and instant messaging Discover new people through friends of friends and communities Share your videos, pictures, and passions all in one place While Orkut looks a lot more like Facebook or mySpace than SL, the concept of communities and social spaces, perhaps linked at some point to Google Earth, bears watching (if Orkut hadn't been so poorly ...
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09.26.07Misc. Me’sHey, I think a lot. I share these deep deep thoughts. These deep thoughts are pretty thin but then I've only been doing this for a week or so. But how come most of the comments I got, at least in world, were about the photos of my day on the town dressed up as a cracked out, blue haired, neko, um...well, whatever I was dressed up as? OK, so a few additional photos just so it doesn't seem like I always wander around with hypodermic needles on my belt and dead fish on my back. Continue Reading...
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09.26.07Google/Second Life Merger and a Life of SpeculationHot on the heels of a cover article on "How Second Life and Google Earth are Merging into One Metaverse" (password required) in the MIT Technology Review, a series of rumours that, well, Second Life and Google... Continue Reading...
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09.26.07Future of SL, the Metaverse and Everything: Flag for Detailed Follow-UpOK, this is as good as it gets as a synopsis of where my head is at (see more on my head in previous blogs). I won't comment now but it's about as concise a status report as I've seen: Questions for the Metanomists And this, on the strange perilous questions about immersion and augmentation, identity and anonymity, and why I sometimes have trouble with people when the RL/SL lines blur: Augmentation vs. Immersion
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