Travel Industry Seeks Socially Responsible Second Life

In 2007, I met with Management at Suntec Exhibition Centre in Singapore regarding virtual worlds and the opportunity for Real & Virtual World events to be run in Unison with each other. Singapore recently held the IT Show at Suntec, 770,000 people packed the centre and SGD58.5 million was spent in four days – how [...]

Virtual World Bloggers unite – itsReal

I think this maybe a very cool way of  Uniting with other virtual world bloggers – if you’re blog is in the list below I invite you to connect with me via twitter http://twitter.com/aplink or facebook
Just in case you are not below – your welcome to connect also
Andrew Peters’s Profile [...]

IBM aims at Meeting Industry with Virtual worlds – itsReal

Made in IBM Labs: IBM Creates Software for Holding Face-to-Face Meetings in Virtual Worlds
Allows Meeting-Goers to Teleport Themselves From Instant Message Chats to Virtual Conference Rooms — No Reservations Necessary

ARMONK, NY–(Marketwire – March 4, 2009) – IBM (NYSE: IBM) is making it easier for widely dispersed businesspeople to interact and collaborate without the time [...]

Life On Line – Twitter twouble, Twinity, twaumas and twibutes

Twitter twouble, Twinity, twaumas and twibutes:
Guests include co-founder of the virtual world Twinity, Jeremy Snyder, about the exciting new gothic machinima contest there and plans for more virtual cities to be released onto the internet in 2009.
Social Networks guru Andrew Peters looks at the changing face of Twitter and reports on US Military plans to [...]

social networks new GOLD – market research

Now will people become more PRIVATE in facebook !!

Gay or straight, your Facebook is their fortune
FACEBOOK is planning to exploit the vast amount of personal information it holds on its 150 million members by creating one of the world’s largest market research databases.
In an attempt to finally cash in on the social networking site, once [...]

it’s hard to stand out – not so at AVW – go platinum

it’s hard to stand out ? not so at AVW – go platinum on AVW – Association of Virtual Worlds and enjoy international virtual & real recognition that will drive your busines development strategies immediately.

You don’t need to be Linden Labs or redlightcentre.com or facebook or even war of warcraft to make your mark on [...]

TidalBlog: Did Second Life and OpenSim just eat Google’s lunch?

The answer is probably “no” but it is interesting to expore precisely why.

There is a widely held belief that Google and Microsoft could easily turn their geospatial products into mass market virtual worlds containing avatars. While virtual world products such as Twinity have indeed focused on replicating real-life locations, neither of the major players has, [...]

David Pollard’s Second Life affair leads to divorce from Amy Taylor | NEWS.com.au

One day, Ms Taylor, 28, found Mr Pollard at the computer watching his avatar having sex with a prostitute in Second Life.
"I went mad, I was so hurt. I just couldn't believe what he'd done. I looked at the computer screen and could see his character with a female character. It's cheating as far as [...]

Machinima Expo in Second Life – itsReal

See forty-one of the 130 films selected for the competition. Ten films and three Canadian films are up for special jury prizes which will be announced at the Expo.

I think for Asia Pacific Start time is around Midnight – between 9 & 10 November…

The Machinima Expo will take place Sunday, November 9th, from 9 AM [...]

Jailed for killing Virtual Husband – itsReal

Tokyo – A 43 year old woman, a player in a virtual game has been jailed for killing a digital persona of an online HUSBAND after he dumped her – in a virtual divorce. She stole his ID and password and logged in and killed his virtual Character in Maple Story. If convicted she faces [...]