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 job listing, it’s hot right now (expecially if you love California)!
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Jeremy Bailenson, from Stanford University, explains us how Second Life can change First Life.
Worth reading
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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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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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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 will interact with a unique career recruitment experience in Second Life as potential firefighters, medical technicians and others can virtually hone their skills before interviewing for Public Service jobs.”
Not sure if GOOD FIREFIGHTERS use Second Life, or not (hint: NOT!!!!), but it’s clearly a smart …read more
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: virtual workplace, virtual education, virtual marketing, virtual commerce.
It seems a very interesting event, even if on the website they forgot to mention dates and times!
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I’ll probably pass by for a couple of hours, to see what’s going on, and I’ll try not to miss …read more
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A new issue of the popular virtual world magazine Avastar is out!
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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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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, will be HUGE, and companies can’t ignore them NOW. Investing in them only when they become the most important thing in the world will be too late.
What’s your take on this?
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 in art, economics, and business. He has been in successful and highly regarded leadership roles at two companies that are bigger than Linden Lab: PricewaterhouseCoopers and Organic. He is a well-loved people leader who is fearless and can weather challenges and change.
Wikipedia says a little …read more
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