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The Archives
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09.25.09Has Second Life Poisoned the Well for Business? Thoughts from 3DTLCThe 3DTLC track at the Engage Expo in San Jose featured some of the usual suspects, Metanomics among them, and an overall sense that we're nearing the finish line - the chasm is about to be crossed, and with the help of ThinkBalm's handy but dense guide to overcoming objectives, we'll all be deploying, well, something 3D, something cool, although we're not really sure yet what the killer app will be. Among the presenters was chief sponsor of the 3DTLC track, Proton Media and they had some pretty impressive business-friendly stuff to show off, including integration with Microsoft's Sharepoint. I was ...
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09.18.09Linden Lab Takes the Stand: Getting Engaged About Virtual GoodsPhilip Rosedale, founder and Chair of Linden Lab, and Tom Hale, Chief Product Officer will be mixing realities next week on the season opener of Metanomics, talking about virtual goods alongside Second Life Residents and superstars in their own rights, Harper Beresford and JeanieSing Trilling. I'm really excited about the show. As far as I know, it's the only mixed reality event happening at an Expo focused on virtual worlds and other engaging stuff. We'll be broadcasting as usual from the Metanomics Main Stage where Harper and JeanieSing will provide insight into what the 'virtual goods' industry means to the creators, ...
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06.28.09Getting Serious About Training, Learning and Collaboration: Launch of 3DTLC Web SiteShow Initiative has expanded its family of on-line blogs with the launch of the 3DTLC.Net Web site. According to the release: To support the growing community using virtual worlds for training, learning and collaboration, we have created 3DTLC.net, a new blog focusing on timely issues, trends and best practices of business applications of virtual worlds technologies. 3DTLC-related news that would have previously surfaced in VirtualWorldsNews.com will now be available on 3DTLC.net so please set your bookmarks and RSS feeds to 3DTLC.net. 3DTLC.net coverage will include detailed interviews, analysis, trends and news, with the goal of assisting corporate customers of 3DTLC-related technologies and ...
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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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