Two Australian virtual NYE parties
If you’ve got an inkling to celebrate New Year’s Eve online this year, you have two options from an Australian perspective, let alone all the other parties that will be going on.
The first involves Second Life: ABC Island will have a community party starting at 11pm AEST and running for 24 hours to cover worldwide [...]
Ten virtual worlds predictions for 2009
Now that we’ve reviewed our 2008 predictions, it’s on to 2009. For the coming year, we’re going to get a little bit more specific in our predictions. It may lower our chances of success but will be more fun. So here we go:
1. OpenSim grids will bleed Second Life users – this may seem a [...]
Linden Lab’s CEO looks back on 2008
Everyone’s retrospective at present, and Linden Lab’s CEO is no different. Read his thoughts here.
A number of Second Life presences are listed as highlights by M Linden – what would you add to the list?
Protest in Second Life: the current Gaza conflict
Over on DIP’s Dispatches from the Information Age, SL resident Eureka Dejavu has posted some pics of a protest held over recent days. The focus of the protest is the current flare up of hostilities between Hamas and Israeli defence forces. Specifically, the protest is against the current Israeli actions in the Gaza strip. This [...]
Virtual Worlds and Australia 2008 Part 2
Look for Part 1 of our roundup here. Onto the second half of 2008:
July 2008
- The first issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research launched
- We started a two-part series looking at virtual world addiction
- The first successful teleport between the Second life grid and an OpenSim grid was announced
- Google Lively was announced
- [...]
Virtual Worlds and Australia 2008 Part 1
It’s that retrospective time of the year again – last year’s look back was a popular feature so here we go again:
January 2008
- Linden Lab issued a warning on currency trading scams
- community-driven politics related to the US presidential election was observed in World of Warcraft
- we made a personal comparison between Second Life and [...]
Metaverse Aid – join the team
Back in October 2007, this site started generating a positive cash flow. After covering all costs, the decision was made to put excess funds to good use. Kiva was chosen primarily for its brilliant model of helping people help themselves, but there was also the tie-in of Kiva having a Second Life presence.
Since then, [...]
