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03.24.10SLife in Las Vegas: Virtual Worlds EverywhereAfter a few days there's a sort of low-grade hum that seems to tackle you from the back of your skull, and that's without wandering the casino floor - somehow those bleeps, the thrum of the air conditioning and the sort of muffled quality of - well, of everything, really, whether the clicks of poker chips or the way that people's voices sort of get trapped in the over-scaled spaces, it all just becomes part of your experience of the place. Wandering through my hotel, the Venetian, I can't help but think that Second Life builders could take a few lessons ...
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12.19.09‘Tis The Season: Turning Play into Pay for Real World Children in NeedIt's the time of year to be, well, bombarded with requests for donations, we're all feeling fortunate, maybe, or even if we're feeling less fortunate it's not a bad time of the year to try to pass a little something along. Now, the trend these days is to give clients a card telling them you've donated to some charity instead of sending them a nice box of Godivas or some other swag, which always reminds me of that Seinfeld episode where George makes UP a charity and then his boss decides to make a large donation in kind. So, far be ...
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11.10.09MadPea Rising: Second Life Gets Good GameThis Friday the 13th MadPea Productions returns to Second Life with "MadPea Circus" - an in-world destination that builds on the wildly successful history of the MadPea team during their partnership with Orange Island. We're pleased to be partnering with MadPea, and to bring Second Life Residents an immersive destination for games and adventure. In the works for months now, MadPea Circus will be one of those 'must see' destinations on the Grid, and includes puzzles, games, and a social/immersive experience that pushes the envelope of what's possible in Second Life. Our partnership with MadPea was based on a simple premise: ...
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11.03.09Report from Enterprise 2.0: Is there room at the big table for virtual worlds?Linden Lab is making a fairly daring foray this week, forming a beach head amongst the Microsofts and IBMs and the dozens of start-ups in the Enterprise 2.0 and VOIP space to lay claim to the idea that virtual worlds are ready for business. OK. Stop right there. Did you see what happened? I used the word 'space'. Which is to say that I haven't been in San Francisco more than 24 hours and already I'm drafting business plans on the back of napkins and speaking that weird west coast talk that's peppered with words like monetize and aggregate but hasn't yet ...
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09.30.09The Story Box: Second Life Breaking BordersSecond Life is a Story Box: But when I look at Second Life I don’t see a game, and I don’t see a role-playing environment, and I don’t see an e-commerce engine (although to some degree it is all of these) – I see the possibilities for stories. And in these possibilities I am attracted to how Second Life may be a new camp fire around which we weary hunters gather, scratching pictures in the sand with our primitive tools and telling each other of the days we’ve had, and the adventures ahead. Stories without Borders has extended this beyond our personal ...
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06.10.09Daily Kos seeks Kossacks in SLDaily Kos, the online political community, recently posted a blog from SL's Mala Fegte, also known as Michele in real life, about the Daily KOS presence in SL. Mala helped organize last year's Netroots Nation in Second Life Convention, where she met other like-minded folk and made some valuable connections by interacting with them "in real time, in a virtual world." While Daily Kos has very active boards and comment threads, Mala found real-time chat a unique feature of SL: "I like the immediacy of chat as opposed to the comment thread format, although it does have its place." Her Daily ...
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05.03.09Setting the Stage: Metanomics and M LindenA New Season of Metanomics Wednesday, May 6th at 1:00 PM SLT Setting the Stage: In Conversation with Mark Kingdon Please make note of the new day and time. Second Life URL to the event hub. We held a community forum for Metanomics this week and introduced everyone to the new stage and set for the show. It was a bit of an emotional moment for me. When I first asked Keystone Bouchard to help with the build I wasn't sure what to expect and, well, my brief was kind of lame frankly: "make something cool that people will love" and he sort of ...
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04.26.09Where Virtual Worlds are Going: Why is the New What, How is for Tomorrow (Report on 3DTLC)I was going to live blog the 3DTLC conference and take lots of detailed notes on the case studies and panel discussions but then got distracted by the Twitter feed of the show which was kind of exciting - I felt like I was at Metanomics casting out pithy comments in the back chat and feeling witty (which isn't the same as BEING witty, of course) except that I wished the panelists could WATCH the back chat - nothing like rattling them with a few comments to throw them off message right? In any case, it wasn't like my first virtual ...
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04.18.09Metanomics: Mark (Kingdon) Your CalendarsMark Kingdon, CEO of Linden Lab will join us for the kick-off of a new season on Metanomics on May 6th at 1:00 p.m. SLT (PST). WAIT! Did I just say May 6th? Isn't that Wednesday? Yes....it's a Wednesday, alternatively called "hump day" or "gawd I wish this week would end sooner day" but can now be called "Thank the stars for Metanomics! It helps me get through the week by bridging it with thoughtful and sometimes provocative insight into virtual worlds!" So when you go to mark your calendar for all the fun of Metanomics (er, thoughtful discourse on virtual worlds and ...
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03.12.09Insights from Engage Expo: Virtual World Goods, Kids, and Monetizing MomThe "Conference Previously Known as Prince", er, previously known as the Virtual World Conference, but now known as Engage! Expo, just wrapped up, and the following report was sent back to give a sense of what's going on. Thanks to Craig for summing things up: The Engage Expo wrapped up, and in dire economic times it was scaled back in size from last year: less attendees (many business travel budgets have been cut: haven't these people heard of Second Life? LOL), fewer talks, and less exhibitors. Part of this may be attributed to the fact that the 3D Training, Learning and ...
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