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	<title>Dusan Writer's Metaverse &#187; avatars</title>
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	<description>Virtual worlds and creativity, business, collaboration, and identity.</description>
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		<title>Avatars as Diaspora: Identity and Content Wallets for the New Age of Privacy</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/08/07/avatars-as-diaspora-identity-and-content-wallets-for-the-new-age-of-privacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s power in your avatar. In my recent post about MyWorld, a new mirror world social gaming platform, Metacam Oh commented that without avatars it isn&#8217;t a game changer for the metaverse. Now, I&#8217;d argue that the metaverse is more broadly defined &#8211; it includes mirror worlds, augmented reality, and life logging. And so while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ultimate Emptiness of Dusan: Identity and Virtuality</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2010/05/30/the-ultimate-emptiness-of-dusan-identity-and-virtuality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 00:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow I missed the post earlier, but BotGirl has continued a conversation that has flipped back and forth across the blogs since, well, since I&#8217;ve been paying attention: what constitutes an avatar identity. In this case, Botgirl parses the different impressions we might have when we think of someone using their real or avatar names: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philip Rosedale&#8217;s Artificial Intelligence (3): Avatar Agents?</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/11/13/philip-rosedales-artificial-intelligence-3-avatar-agents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Rosedale wants to move us closer to the Singularity, at least according to an interview with the New Scientist, in which he says that his new company will &#8220;takes the concept of virtual life a lot further. I&#8217;m looking at what else we can digitise. How can we evolve human experience?&#8221; Which is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mapping Home: Virtual Worlds and the Geography of Desire</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/05/10/mapping-home-virtual-worlds-and-the-geography-of-desire/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/05/10/mapping-home-virtual-worlds-and-the-geography-of-desire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 17:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linden Lab&#8217;s decision to create a continent in Second Life for explicit adult content had me picturing wagon trains loaded up with dance poles and avatar, um, attachments. We had been told the frontier days were over, after all, and with new management it was time for a bit of geographic relocation, a partitioning of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Your Avatar: X-Box Live Lets Loose</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/02/12/free-your-avatar-x-box-live-lets-loose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[X-Box Live is allowing you to free your avatar in time for Valentines Day. The simple application lets you port your avatar off the X-Box platform and send photos of it to friends. &#8220;The updated ‘Free Your Avatar’ tool will provide brand new backgrounds and props for every occasion including birthday backgrounds, party hats and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Am I Me? Virtual Worlds, Avatars Rights, and Interoperability</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/07/25/am-i-me-virtual-worlds-avatars-rights-and-interoperability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, so there is a FIC, and Prok is part of it. Well, not really, but you see, there&#8217;s a group of metaversites (metaversians?) who Plurk each other or something and then get together to meet in a secret room in some shady part of New York City &#8220;uncomfortably unsticking one buttock and then the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMVU Founder Cary Rosenzweig on Avatar-Centricity</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/07/03/imvu-founder-cary-rosenzweig-on-avatar-centricity/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/07/03/imvu-founder-cary-rosenzweig-on-avatar-centricity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IMVU recently opened itself up to the general public after registering 20 million users to its 3D virtual platform. Worlds in Motion had a chance to interview founder Cary Rosenzweig about the public launch, and he throws around some pretty impressive figures: 20 million users, 2 million items created, and over 100,000 content creators, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMVU Hits 20M User Mark</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/06/25/imvu-hits-20m-user-mark/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/06/25/imvu-hits-20m-user-mark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dusanwriter.com/?p=636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[IMVU, which is still in public Beta (hmm, when do you come OUT of Beta, by many definitions, Second Life would still be IN Beta if that means the period in which you work out the glitches and bugs), has reached 20M users and a user-generated content base of 2,000,000 objects. According to Venture Beat: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Avatar is Not Me, or, Why Virtual Worlds Will Not Become Appliances</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/05/23/my-avatar-is-not-me-or-why-virtual-worlds-will-not-become-appliances/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/05/23/my-avatar-is-not-me-or-why-virtual-worlds-will-not-become-appliances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 23:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe the Grid has been more stable lately, or less stable, or maybe there&#8217;s one of those collective deep breaths as the community waits for, well, whatever it waits for &#8211; the next CSI build? The next Burning Man? The first pronouncement from Governor M. Or Agent M. Or Organic M. Smoke puffed from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dating Avatars: Preparing for Face-to-Face Contact</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/05/16/dating-avatars-preparing-for-face-to-face-contact/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/05/16/dating-avatars-preparing-for-face-to-face-contact/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 20:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next step in online dating appears to be virtual dating, according to the Toronto Star. Virtual daters at Omnidate create avatars from six male or female choices and then go on virtual dates in bars, at the beach or at a museum, all the while listening to favorite music. The goal is to eventually [...]]]></description>
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