It has been almost a year since i wrote this entry, FaceBook Addiction is Growing vs Being a Business Drone in LinkedIn, and 12 months later I find that the then Addiction to facebook, has evolved instead into being, facebook my reliable business companion.
facebook managers to meld very human needs for being entertained while being social [...]
Linden’s new CEO’s action plan | VWF blog | Virtual Economic Forum Content Library
Second Life needs to fix its’ First Life - Will the new Linden Leader make it so …. APLINK
Twinity Heads Outdoors with Berlin
Metaversum announced last week that its upcoming mirror world, Twinity, had begun opening outdoor areas in its private beta. The virtual world is built around real-world metropolises, but, until now, avatars had been limited to indoor spaces. Sections of Berlin, now open, are the first to get the treatment, but [...]
Please see last minute edit below and i want to hear from anyone working on getting virtual worlds onto mobile devices - APLINK
Whilst skimming thru news about Virtual Worlds I picked up this gem - how soon this will become a stable consumer product from Intel (thinking that it will rely on wireless internet even [...]
Metaversum GmbH, developer and operator of the 3D online world Twinity, announced today that metropolises are being built in its virtual world. Berlin’s Hackescher Market and its immediate surroundings can now be accessed in private Beta.
Singapore, 12 July 2008 – Metaversum GmbH has announced that it plans to build virtual replicas of real metropolises in [...]
Second Quarter 2008
Grockit——————-MMO Learning Game——-$8 million——-Integral Capital and Benchmark
Nurien Software——–3D social networking——-$15 million——-Northern Light, Globespan, NEA
PrimeSense————-Gestural Interface———-$20.4 million—–Led by Canaan Partners
Realtime Worlds———-MMOG Developer———$50 million——–Maverick Capital, NEA
Stanford Parallel —-Parallel Processing————–$6 million——-Sun Microsystems, AMD, Nvidia, IBM,
Processing Lab for Virtual Worlds [...]
I have to say the narrator of this video is REALLY corny - however IBM & Linden Labs have successfully teleported Avatars from Second Life to another Virtual World OpenSim - except you can’t take your toothbrush !
Just Listened Again - Sack the narrator, script writer, creative head …. doesn’t anyone at IBM or Linden [...]
As a PR practitioner with a difference I found myself last week recommending that a client come out of the closet about their corporate GREEN policies that are being implemented in Europe BUT have yet to reach the shores of Singapore - To be honest Singapore lags behind other developed countries in it’s Green Policies [...]
Popularity is contagious - a new Virtual Community has arrived at Ning….
About My Metaverse is about developing the new media arts and community across all the virtual worlds. Here’s where you can upload your original music, original machinima or movies, start a blog or comment on others, join a group like the musicians, the machinimatographers, [...]
How to Successfully Get Media for Your Virtual World, Company or Project
When
July 15, 2008 at 11 am est to 12:00 pm ET (60 minutes)
Why
This is the first in a new series of ‘How To’ sessions to meet the unique needs of AVW Members. Media, Marketing, Promotion, Advertising, and all things dedicated to [...]
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