Virtual Worlds: 2009 industry forecast
US-based Virtual Worlds Management have released their Virtual Worlds Management Industry Forecast 2009 . It features commentary from more than 60 executives across the virtual worlds industry, including Australia’s Santosh Kulkarni (NICTA), Danny Stefanic (ExitReality), Bruce Joy (VastPark), and Bob Quodling (Mycosm).
Condensing a report of this size into a few paragraphs is always [...]
Recession and virtual worlds: go real-world
Nic Mitham at Kzero has written a interesting piece on virtual worlds and the challenges they face in the current economic climate. He pays particular attention to ‘pure-play’ worlds, which are those that aren’t linked to a real-world brand.
Pure-play worlds don’t have the relative security of a more widely known brand to leverage from [...]
Virtual worlds prominent in BRW’s Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications
BRW have run a feature listing the ‘Top 100′ Australian Web 2.0 applications.
The list is a co-production with Ross Dawson’s Future Explanation Network and you can see the full list here.
The Australia-based virtual worlds that made the list were:
1. VastPark at number 22.
2. MojiKan at number 32.
3. My CyberTwin at number [...]
