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	<title>Dusan Writer's Metaverse &#187; blue mars</title>
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	<description>Virtual worlds and creativity, business, collaboration, and identity.</description>
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		<title>Taking Nibbles at the Experience Buffet: Virtual Worlds and Branded Domains</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/12/31/taking-nibbles-at-the-experience-buffet-virtual-worlds-and-branded-domains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raph Koster&#8217;s Metaplace closes tomorrow, or the user-generated/consumer-facing version of it will, in any case &#8211; although maybe it will come back as a sort of Unity3D for the Facebook crowd or something. We&#8217;ll wait for Raph himself to parse the why&#8217;s and could-have-beens, but I can&#8217;t help thinking about what Tyler Cowen said on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decoding the Blue Mars Terms of Service</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/12/19/decoding-the-blue-mars-terms-of-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the recent (and vibrant) discussions of intellectual property and license rights in Second Life, and this week&#8217;s announcements about Blue Mars, I thought I&#8217;d take a look at the Blue Mars terms of service. First, I should not that I don&#8217;t personally believe that Blue Mars is a competitor to Second Life. It&#8217;s better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Mars Virtual World Gets Flashy</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/12/17/blue-mars-virtual-world-gets-flashy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blue Mars one-upped other virtual world platforms today with the introduction of embeddable Flash-based content in the environment. Similar to more corporate virtual environments such as Protosphere or Croquet which allow interactive, embedded content, Blue Mars now allows its worlds (and world creators) to include embedded Flash-based content. The announcement comes on the heels of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Mars, Social Media, Open Government, and Virtual Worlds</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/06/18/blue-mars-social-media-open-government-and-virtual-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art and Exploration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jim Sink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Werbach]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blue Mars is anticipating a launch later this summer &#8211; or at the very least, is anticipating opening its doors to a wider pool of content developers, and with its approach there&#8217;s active interest in how it works, how the business model is set up, and how the heck to access it if you&#8217;re on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Mars: Partnerships, Launch, and Metanomics</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/06/16/blue-mars-2150-imminent-launch-visits-metanomics/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/06/16/blue-mars-2150-imminent-launch-visits-metanomics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business in Virtual Worlds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Sink of Blue Mars will appear on this week&#8217;s Metanomics, and ahead of his appearance comes the announcement that one of their development partners, Virtual Space Entertainment, is partnering with the Smithsonian, National Geographic, and others to take advantage of this &#8216;richly rendered&#8217; 3D world. Check out the promo video: As Virtual Worlds News [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Blue Mars: Virtual World Promising Rich Content Creation Opportunities</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/04/15/inside-blue-mars-virtual-world-promising-rich-content-creation-opportunities/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/04/15/inside-blue-mars-virtual-world-promising-rich-content-creation-opportunities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Applications and Tools]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bettina Tizzy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goddess of the Grid Bettina Tizzy has a lengthy interview with Jim Sink of Avatar Reality on the forthcoming Blue Mars virtual world. Or worlds, if I&#8217;m going to go by my discussions with Raph Koster, because each world will be self-contained with its own rules and execution of code (LUA and a casual games [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It It It&#8217;s Aliiiiive (evil cackle): Rendering Reality in Games and Virtual Worlds</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/08/22/it-it-its-aliiiiive-evil-cackle-rendering-reality-in-games-and-virtual-worlds/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/08/22/it-it-its-aliiiiive-evil-cackle-rendering-reality-in-games-and-virtual-worlds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real-time rendering of the realistic, the promise of graphics so stunningly real that you&#8217;ll really&#8230;.OK, well you get the idea, although the use of realism in virtual worlds and games cycles us back to that odd difficulty: when it seems really real, the imperfections make it feel fake. Make sense? Well&#8230;let&#8217;s just say that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Mars Virtual World: Forget User-Generated Content</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/08/08/blue-mars-virtual-world-forget-user-generated-content/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/08/08/blue-mars-virtual-world-forget-user-generated-content/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concept artist and futurist Syd Mead is bringing his vision to the forthcoming Blue Mars virtual world, promising a city in which &#8220;visitors&#8230;will experience the future of entertainment, social networking, commerce and education. Retail shopping centers, entertainment venues, museums and more will give visionary entrepreneurs the best commercial opportunities of the 22nd century.&#8221; Perhaps alone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Metaverse Less Real if Madison Avenue Says It Ain&#8217;t? (Report from the Virtual Worlds Conference)</title>
		<link>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/04/05/is-the-metaverse-less-real-if-madison-avenue-says-it-aint-report-from-the-virtual-worlds-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/04/05/is-the-metaverse-less-real-if-madison-avenue-says-it-aint-report-from-the-virtual-worlds-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dusan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Virtual World Conference was a sort of giddy hallucination for me, never having been before, and maybe I&#8217;m LUCKY (based on other reports) that it&#8217;s a bit more somber and less gushing than past events. Everything feels a bit more gray these days, constant drizzle in New York (gave me a cold) and all [...]]]></description>
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