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We highlighted some poor mainstream reporting on Second Life and covered a successful event on ABC Island.
Clever Zebra release two virtual worlds white papers
To coincide with their latest vBusiness Expo, Clever Zebra have released two white papers – available at no cost.
The first is The Essential 7 Point Quick Start for Meetings Professionals, the other is Going Virtual: A Three Point Success Plan for Business.
To get copies, click on the incorrectly titled ‘Download your copy now’ links at [...]
Introducing: Metaverse Health
I’m really pleased to introduce a new sister site to The Metaverse Journal: Metaverse Health. It’s a completed site now but expect further enhancements in coming weeks.
In the time we’ve been covering virtual worlds, health is one of the key areas that pops up time and time again as both a key opportunity and pivotal [...]
Second Life immaturity – bell curve bungling.
Second Life is going through a troubling phase. It has entered young adulthood, but is still acting like a teenager – occasionally like a teething two-year-old in a tantrum. Unfortunately, Linden Lab has a very different view about where the Second Life product stands with regards to its consumers: they believe that they are providing [...]
The Watch – virtual worlds in the news
1. Kotaku (USA) – Virtual Worlds for Fun and Research. “We mentioned Arden, the university-design MMO, a few times; a working paper has just been released that looks at economic behavior in MMOs using the game. The interesting thing here isn’t so much the fact that people replicate real-world behaviors online (in this case, they [...]
Oscar Niemeyer and Second Life
Oscar Niemeyer’s work has gained many plaudits over the years and his architecture is now gaining some attention in Second Life, thanks to Hidenori Watanave and a student team from Tokyo Metropolitan University (Kanako Hayashi, Kaname Shimizu, Makiko Suzuki, Ryuta Kawahara and Yohei Nakano).
A 3D image database of Brazilian Niemeyer’s work is being developed [...]
The impact of brands on virtual worlds
Second Life blogger Dusan Writer has written a detailed article on the impact he believes brands have had on virtual worlds and the trend toward smaller virtual worlds.
His tone is best summed up by this paragraph:
And this social media stuff has been a drag too. Best we could do for the poor suffering brands was [...]
