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Archive for the ‘virtual worlds’ Category

May 16th, 2008

Playboy coming to Second Life!

Breaking news: Playboy is coming to Second Life!
Christie Hefner is saying:
“We believe that the potential of online is much greater than the performance we’ve seen in the last several years”

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I agree, Christie: the potential revenue from virtual worlds is much bigger than what you ever saw in the past.
See Love + Sex with Robots […]

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May 15th, 2008

Why Second Life?

“Does a Second Life avatar need a kitchen if it never eats, or a roof over its head if it never rains? If you can be anything and build anything, how does an avatar find happiness?”
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As good as usual, the Second Life section of Reuters talks about the new “Molotov Alva and His Search for […]

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May 9th, 2008

A virtual learning platform for medical training

BreakAway Ltd. bought the license for a project, funded by Federal government in Texas and developed by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, regarding a virtual learning platform for medical training: Pulse!!
This is what Dr. Claudia L. McDonald has to say:
“Through our collaboration with TAMU-CC to develop a platform solution for teaching and training medical professionals, we […]

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April 30th, 2008

Update from recent Virtual Worlds 2008 in New York

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

SecondLifePros.com on Alltop.com!

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 26th, 2008

Virtual Business Expo on Second Life, April 27th 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

The new Avastar is out!

A new issue of the popular virtual world magazine Avastar is out!

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April 24th, 2008

Ignore Second Life at your own peril!

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 8th, 2008

Looking for events and conferences on Virtual Worlds in Europe 2008

Dear readers,
I’d need some help: I’m looking for events and conferences about virtual worlds (and web 2.0, storage, Information Technology) in Europe in 2008, to plan my travel schedule.
Do you have any to suggest?
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April 4th, 2008

Virtual Worlds London, oct 20-21 2008

I’m pleased to read that we’ll have a great Virtual Worlds Conference in London, on october 20-21, 2008.

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Will you attend? I really hope to :-)
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