Hosoi Ichiba Machinima Awards 2008
If you’re into machinima production and would like to win fifty thousand Linden dollars, the information I received today may interest you:
We are looking for artists that can compose the Best Machinima Impression of our Hosoi Ichiba and surroundings on Virgin Island. Hosoi Ichiba is a japanese style market enclosed by walls and watch towers, [...]
Virtual Combat Expo
Apollo Case is an Australian Second Life Resident who owns Armory Island, one of the more popular haunts for avatars who like their weapons. He recently sent me some information on the 3rd Annual Combat Expo coming up in May this year.
Apollo is touting the expo as focusing on anything to do with virtual combat [...]
Second Life Brand Center launches
Linden Lab have announced the creation of a new sub-section on the Second Life website called the Second Life Brand Center.
It’s essentially a more formalised structure for promoting your business as being part of the Second Life community. It’s also a further way of Linden Lab reinforcing appropriate use of their Trademarks – including [...]
A year ago on The Metaverse Journal
We interviewed Gary Hayes (SL: Gary Hazlitt) about his involvement with the Telstra and ABC presences in Second Life, and a whole lot more.
Episode 1 of TMJ Podcast
It’s taken a while but I’m proud to announce that first edition of the Metaverse Journal Podcast is now available:
We’re working on being listed in the podcast directory of iTunes but in the meantime, you can subscribe to the podcast RSS feed here. As Jovin very handily says in the comments below, pasting the link [...]
The Watch – virtual worlds in the news
1. CNN Money – IBM, Forterra Using Unified Communications in Virtual Worlds to Solve “Tower of Babel” for Intelligence Agencies. “IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Forterra Systems are working to solve an age-old problem that challenges U.S. security and costs taxpayers millions. Forterra plans to develop a futuristic unified communications solution code-named “Babel Bridge” that could [...]
