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Archive for the ‘virtual worlds’ Category

February 25th, 2008

Question on the future

Did you ever read something from Ray Kurtzweil?
I find him coherent and interesting, expecially when he talks about how the Law of Accelerating Returns will affect our life in the near future. In twenty years, we’ll experience the progress of the past fifty years, and this will translate into nanotechnological implants, quantum computers, and so […]

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January 3rd, 2008

Virtual Memorial for Benazir Bhutto

This is one of the most interesting aspects of Second Life, and virtual worlds in general: the capacity to group people around the world so easily.
In this case, I’m pointing you to the virtual memorial for Benazir Bhutto, without willing to enter any political dispute here, because I don’t really know the details of this […]

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January 1st, 2008

The best metaverse? It’s a teen one!

CIAO to all my readers!
I hope you had a wonderful new year’s eve, and a great first january 2008!
Mine has been fantastic :-)
Let’s go back to Second Life, metaverses, and so on!
Some smart and down-the-earth analysts agree that 2008 will be an important year for Metaverses (Metaverses are the virtual universes in which humans, through […]

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December 11th, 2007

Sex and Second Life. My two cents.

Sex, sex, sex, the big engine of business, together with drugs and oil.
Of course, I’m talking about the real world, but things are not so different in the world of Second Life.
We can’t have REAL drugs in Second Life (yet), we can’t be interested in virtual oil (yet), but rest assured that sex is the […]

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December 10th, 2007

Second Life Business in 2008? Check this out

As Reuters reports, Second Life enterpreneurs (can we call them SLenterpreneurs?), in an Electric Sheep event, say they are cautiously optimistic about 2008.
I agree with JimmyJet Fossett, expecially on the last sentence in bold (bold is mine): ” [I see the SL economy going] Up, I see the prospect of more transactional capability tied […]

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December 6th, 2007

Virtual worlds TRENDS

This is an interesting article about the “trends” of virtual worlds, and I’d like to add my opinion on each point:
1. Shedloads of virtual worlds will be launched in 2008.
That’s right, but… you perfectly know that Second Life is the most famous, and a couple more will enter the podium in 2008… the others will […]

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