April 30th, 2008
I wasn’t able to attend, but Virtual Worlds 2008 in New York has been a tremendous success.
Now online there are some of the coolest presentations, and mp3s of the great keynotes.
Don’t forget the call for speakers for Virtual Worlds 2008 London, 20-21 october 2008!
If you’re interested in getting a virtual job, check the virtual worlds […]
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April 29th, 2008
Jeremy Bailenson, from Stanford University, explains us how Second Life can change First Life.
Worth reading :-)
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April 29th, 2008
Great news: thanks to Bred, who listened to my kind suggestion, SecondLifePros.com is finally on AllTop.com, a great site which collects the coolest feeds (don’t know what a feed is?) on various topics, such as Virtual Worlds!
Check out this screenshot… Aint’ it supercool? :-)
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April 28th, 2008
Reuters shows a video interview of Philip Rosedale on why they’ve chosen Mark Kingdon as the new Linden Lab’s CEO.
Short, but interesting!
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April 28th, 2008
Recruiting is soooo important nowadays: if a company (or a government agency) is able to pick the right guy or girl, it’s a big advantage.
No surprise that there is another report about a recruiting initiative in Second Life by SLAgency:
“TheSLAgency launches an innovative job recruitment program for a government client in Second Life. Job hunters […]
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April 26th, 2008
Tomorrow (sunday, april 27th) at 10am PDT, Ben Lorica (O’Reilly) will present the Virtual Worlds Business Guide by O’Reilly and discuss their recent findings.
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The conference is just one among many at the Virtual Business Expo, taking place in Second Life (or “inworld”, as we use to say) for four days, with the following topics: […]
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April 25th, 2008
A new issue of the popular virtual world magazine Avastar is out!
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April 25th, 2008
One year ago, Linden Lab activated my nice Assisi Island, on which we built the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi.
In one year, we had about a dozen outages, and some bandwidth issues, but in general the service has been quite good.
It seems AGES, but it’s just one year!
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April 24th, 2008
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/mckinsey-compan.html
McKinsey & Company, a famous management consulting firm (wikipedia), is deeply involved in virtual worlds, and Second Life.
From a news source:
An unnamed senior consultant told the Times Online that companies “absolutely” should be “experimenting in virtual worlds” to attract customers under 30 and were “ignoring them at their peril.”
I agree: virtual worlds, and social networks, […]
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April 24th, 2008
Linden Lab announced that Mark Kingdon (avatar: M Linden) is the new CEO of Linden Lab !
This is what Philip Rosedale says about him:
He is a person with the rare and unusual combination of business leadership, creativity, and passion for Second Life that we were looking for. In terms of history, he has a background […]
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