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April 2nd, 2008
The Archives
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04.02.08Do Your Chores, Earn Virtual Rewards!Incentive has always been a key motivator to get kids to do their chores at home. Clean your room? Eat some dessert! Take the garbage out? Here's a new toy! Handipoints has developed a program that takes the idea of incentives into the virtual world. The Oakland, CA-based company has developed a chart-based system where kids and parents can keep track of what chores have been completed and creates a points/rewards system for the completion of tasks. The kids earn points in the virtual world - points used to buy things for your "Cool Cat" in Handiland, play games and watch ...
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04.02.08CTO of Nortel on Virtual World / Mixed Reality ExperienceJohn Roese recently blogged about his experience in a "global employee session within a virtual mixed-reality world." Roese explains how hundreds of people particpiated virtually and by watching the session in auditoriums and meeting rooms by watching the proceedings through an avatar on a large screens: "The experience was fantastic," Roese writes. "I was able to present, dialogue with employees, and answer questions within the virtual world but also in a way that all of the employees using other more traditional mediums – audio and voice conferencing and sitting in auditoriums – could also be a part of. "Nortel is developing a prototype ...
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04.02.08Medical Training and Advocacy In SLTwo posts brought to our attention to the continuing advancements in the medical field that are happening in SL. Mental Health Notes writes about the National Council setting up mental health and addictions awareness and support in SL. The main advantage to this is that the interactions are anonymous, and of course it also increases dramatically the access that people will have to these support and awareness groups. And at Science Roll (our favorite blog about medical learning, written by a real student) Bertalan Meskó describes a case presentation playing itself out in SL. Multiple voices offered medical solutions to a case ...
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04.02.08Dawn Has Risen - Linden and a Muddy ClarificationLinden Lab came in under the wire on on April 1st, posting a "clarification" of its new branding guidelines, much to the relief of the bloggers and content developers. (OK, that last bit was a sort of post April Fool's thing). Well, the clarification isn't really so much a clarification as a reinforcement of what was said previously. A few comments followed by a bunch of links to the original post, and a few additional comments that just, well, give additional examples really. I don't have an issue with protecting the Second Life trademark, or the logo. I have an ISSUE with ...
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04.02.08Sidewinder Linden JIRA - Vote Now!Hmmm...maybe someone can help me with this? I'd like to open a JIRA please proposing that Linden Lab bottle whatever magic it is that runs Sidewinder Linden's sense of community relations, clarity of communication, and project oversight so that it can be embedded in the code. Havok4 has run remarkably well on the sims I launched it on. Sure, still some weird glitches and retro-fitting of some things, but on top of the fact that it was nearly crash-proof even with a tidal wave of objects and scripts, they also steadily but surely ticked off the issues and got the thing ...
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04.02.08“We’ll have a response Friday, or Monday” (checks watch T+17 hours)Linden promised! And a promise is a promise! So...PR e-mailed NWN and said "we're going to address this Friday or Monday". (The branding guideline uproar). Now, they tell Hamlet that because of the "volume of response" they need more time. Which leaves me with a few questions: 1. Why don't they post THAT on the blog? Something along the lines of: "Thanks everyone. Look, we know you want answers. We want to get this as right, the best we can, but it's complicated. There's lawyers involved, trademark people, MBAs, community relations people, and to top it off Philip is in Washington. We know ...
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