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Is Google’s lively the end of Second Life?

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:05:05 +0000

Do you know Google’s Lively?
In short, you create an avatar and chat with your friends in room that you design. A simple 3D web, if you want.
Some people think that Lively will be the end of Second Life. I don’t.

Sibley Verbeck, Electric Sheep Company’s CEO, commented that Google’s lively will not be a threat to Second Life.

Reuters is neutral about it. No comments.

Wagner James Au thinks that Lively will ultimate help Second Life gain more users.

Virtual World News has an interesting article about Lively and Second Life. And, to be noted, Rivers Run Red and Millions of Us are already prefered developers for Lively. Interesting.

You know, Virtual Worlds, and Second Life, are doing great, and here are the numbers (and something here too).

I think that Second Life is here to stay, and Virtual Worlds will be the norm in a few years.

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IBM and Second Life interoperability

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:00:52 +0000

This is great news: IBM announced interoperability between Virtual Worlds, and Second Life in particular.
Lots of sources commented on this:

Cisco calls it a mayor interoperability milestone.

Virtual world news is warm about it: “Linden Lab will start an Open Grid Public Beta in July, making the Second Life Preview Grid available with Open Grid Protocol support for login and teleport”

And, of course, the official Linden Blog stresses out the importance of the Open Grid protocol.

I agree that this step will help Second Life a lot, and will probably save them from competition. I am happy to see that they are finally opening up a little bit. They needed to do that.
Thanks guys! Good job!

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Yoowalk, a virtual world to surf the web in 3D

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:13:13 +0000

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Yoowalk is a no-download virtual world which lets you browse the web, connect with friends, and design your own space in a live 3D environment.

Yoowalk is a virtual representation of the world wide web. It is composed of categorized villages of 3D websites, called walksites, that you browse with a personalized avatar. Simply walk your avatar along the streets to explore the coolest versions of your favorite websites.

Once in Yoowalk, you will not only see other avatars browsing the web, but will be able to interact with them in real-time. Feel free to follow a crowd, ask for shopping advice, or publicly debate your opinion in the streets.

With the Yoowalk Messenger you can chat, locate, and browse the web with your friends. You can also sign into additional Instant Messengers and invite these friends to meet you in Yoowalk. Because Yoowalk is free and requires no download, they can join you with a simple mouse click.

You can also design and decorate your own 3D space with furniture, accessories, interactive applications, and your favorite web content. You can also upload personal music and photos to share with your friends. When you’re done, you can invite them over to hang out and laugh at the latest pics from your crazy weekend.

In Yoowalk, as a webmaster, you will be able to build your community and interact live with your audience.

Seems interesting, but I don’t really see a breakthrough here. Thoughts?

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Entropia Universe in German, Spanish and French!

Thu, 29 May 2008 04:05:27 +0000

Entropia Universe, a virtual world created by Mindark, the fist virtual world to contribute to the Emmy Award, currently in english only, will soon be available in German, Spanish and French, to increase the penetration of this virtual world expecially among European users.

Entropia is a very interesting virtual world, and this move can surely bring lots of new users, an interesting contributions as well.

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Upcoming Virtual Job Fair in Second Life, may 29th

Mon, 26 May 2008 20:30:23 +0000

Working Worlds will open again on May 29th, 2008, to open the BeNeLux (Belgium, Netherland, Luxembourg) job market to potential candidates.
Amazon.com will be there, too, and of course I’ll attend (my avatar name is Simone Brunozzi).

My suggestion? Register on the website, or follow the step-by-step guide, and attend the fair on may 29th… I’m sure there will be very interesting opportunities out there!

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Playboy coming to Second Life!

Fri, 16 May 2008 23:31:52 +0000

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 for further details about what sex, virtual worlds and robots will become in the near future.

However, let me add that Playboy quite always worked in this “dangerous” business (the erotic business) with taste and caution.
Keep doing this. Virtual worlds are far more dangerous, for people, than real ones, and you need to really pay attention.

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Why Second Life?

Thu, 15 May 2008 04:22:46 +0000

“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 His creator: a Second Life Odyssey“.

It seems a futile question, but… According to Ray Kurtzweil and his books, it may be rather important in a near future.

My take: virtual worlds will become predominant in 25 to 35 years, and people will melt with artificial intelligence bots in a virtual world. Frightening, or wonderful.

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A virtual learning platform for medical training

Fri, 09 May 2008 15:51:17 +0000

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 realize the urgent need for medical organizations to augment their traditional training methods with game-based technology such as Pulse!!,” BreakAway CEO Doug Whatley said in a statement. “We are honored to be able to use Pulse!! technology as the starting point for delivering virtual learning tools to supplement medical training using a simulated 3D world that replicates the actual physical and emotional environment that medical professionals face whether it’s in a hospital, clinic or on the battlefield.”

This kind of tool is very interesting, despite Second Life is still too primitive, too slow, and not enough detailed to support such things… but time will come.

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Update from recent Virtual Worlds 2008 in New York

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:45:42 +0000

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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SecondLifePros.com on Alltop.com!

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:48:48 +0000

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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