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When virtual legal chickens come home to roost

When virtual legal chickens come home to roostJudge orders payment of $5000 virtual dollarsgood at any virtual McDonalds.Pfttt..RE: When virtual legal chickens come home to roostWhat court would actually have jurisdiction? The court where the Second Life servers are? How about where the plantiff is? What if the defendant resides...

Tags: legal chicken, virtual dollar, chicken, Second Life

Discussion threads 2007-11-07

The future of virtual worlds

At the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 07 the virtual worlds was under scrutiny. Virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier led a panel below with Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Labs Second Life; Irving Wladawksy-Berger of IBM; Chris Sherman, CEO of Gaia Online and Chris Melissinos, chief gaming officer at Sun.The big question...

Tags: Web Technology, Social networking, Second Life, General

Blog posts 2007-08-01

Second Life a terrorist training camp?

In what has to be one of the most sensationalist and fuzzy pieces of journalism I've read in a long while, The Australian newspaper has published an article that links terrorist training with the virtual world of Second Life.Terrorist organisations al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiah traditionally sent potential jihadists to train...

Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life

Blog posts 2007-07-31

Banned: Gambling in Second Life

If, like me, you've lost a few hundred Linden dollars on a virtual roulette wheel in Second Life, and were planning on returning sometime soon to win it all back -- you're out of luck. After coming under increasing scrutiny from the FBI and other law enforcers, Linden Labs has...

Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life

Blog posts 2007-07-27

Canadian cops recruit in Second Life

Last month, the Vancouver Police Department VPD held a recruitment seminar in Second Life. Yes, you read that right: recruiting law enforcement officers through a virtual world. The idea, the VPD said, was to target a generation who are extremely web-savvy. If they are early adopters venturing into a virtual...

Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life

Blog posts 2007-07-02

Viacom to buy Last.fm?; Sony launches YouTube competitor; Atari plans its own virtual world; USAToday's social strategy sees results

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…Viacom to buy Last.fm? The rumor mill is buzzing with news that Viacom is far in negotiations to purchase London web 2.0 poster-child, Last.fm (the leading music-based social network). "The...

Tags: Music, Second Life, Social Networks, The Social Web weekly, Virtual Worlds, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-04-26

Can open source save Second Life?

Can open source save Second Life?Nothing is likely to save Second LifeNot real estate nor simulated sex. There is a long history of people making and losing money in virtual worlds - it's called multiplayer gaming. Millions of players world wide have participated in virtual worlds that far...

Tags: Games, Call centers, Nothing, open source, Second Life, virtual world

Discussion threads 2007-04-18

Google Earth to get a Second Life?

Michael Eisenberg a partner at VC firm Benchmark Capital has posted on his blog about a rumor hes heard regarding Googles plans to build a virtual world based on Google Earth. Eisenberg writes:Heard an interesting rumor today from an academic who heard through the PhD grapevine...Google is working on turning...

Tags: MySpace, Virtual Worlds, Google, virtual world, Google Inc., Google Earth

Blog posts 2007-01-25

Second Life client open-sourced

The makers of Second Life Linden Labs have announced that as of today the client software for its virtual world will be released under an open-source license (GNU GPL version 2). This means that the outside development community can help improve the existing software needed to log-on and interact with...

Tags: Linden Labs, Second Life, virtual world

Blog posts 2007-01-08

Virtual worlds need open standards

When Stephen Shankland interviewed IBMs VP of Technical Strategy and Innovation, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, at CNETs virtual offices in Second Life, much of the discussion centered on the need for the makers of virtual worlds to develop and embrace standards. At the moment for example, Second Life technology is as proprietary...

Tags: open standard, virtual world, standards, Second Life

Blog posts 2006-12-18

How long before the law enters Second Life?

In a recent post I reported on the crime problems that have plagued the virtual world of Second Life, and the reluctance of Linden Labs the games makers to act the role of law-enforcer. So who exactly should rule virtual worlds like Second Life? Thats one of the questions which...

Tags: Second Life, Virtual Worlds

Blog posts 2006-12-01

Second Life: gangs, theft and goo.

According to Business Week, Second Life has a crime problem. First there was the CopyBot saga theft; then a worm which spread grey goo throughout the virtual world, bringing the games servers to a standstill vandalism; and now it seems gangs are forcing members out of public places (anti-social behavior):It...

Tags: Games, Linden Labs, virtual world

Blog posts 2006-11-22

Harvard prof holds law class in the virtual world of Second Life

As if a virtual world created by its residents wasnt wacky enough, a quirky Harvard professor has announced hes going to hold a law class there, reports The Harvard Crimson. Harvard Law professor Charles R. Nesson is offering a course called "CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion,"...

Tags: Second Life

Blog posts 2006-09-28

Additional Resources

What's up, what's down on our warming planet?

Glaciers are down, the ocean is up. Here are some details: Europe is losing its Alpine snowmass. Glaciers in Europe have lost 25% of their snowmass since 1980. It's more than agony for skiers. Huge sections of rock and rubble are leaving...

Tags: Meter, Glacier, Business Ethics, Government, Leadership, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-06

The WOA story emerges as better outcomes sought for SOA

Over the summer the enterprise IT blogosphere was swept up in a conversation around the concepts that many are calling Web-Oriented Architecture, or WOA. A different way to think about service-oriented architecture, WOA extolls a different but related set of technologies, in particular how to apply them in specific ways...

Tags: Web, Business, SOA, Organization, WOA, WOA Story, REST, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-06

Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as Pope

Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as PopeThat's what I thoughtThe ad was about nothing except of course Bill. It is unclear why this ad was made.Who in the world is this "journalist"?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Ratcliffe"I see you baby ...... shakin that ass -shakin that ass."http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/digital/article/548871/publicis-dialog-puns-ass-shaking-new-renault-viral/RE: Microsoft builds $300M...

Tags: Wiki, Blogging, ass, Jerry Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., Wikipedia, Bill Gates, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

LHC scientists get death threats

LHC scientists get death threatsIgnorance produces fear...And issuing death threats is not the christian thing to do. And $10.00 to a donut will get you that a religiously motivated faction is behind the threats. Something to research further.RE: LHC scientists get death threats - is it because Roger Federer lost...

Tags: Anti-Matter, LHC, death threat

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?

The news broke today that Joost, the company which in a lot of ways was on the forefront of rich media, is canning its signature desktop client in favor of a purely web based portal. As a big proponent of desktop applications in general, and especially these hybrid applications which...

Tags: Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-09-05

LHC scientists get death threats

So it's come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University,...

Tags: Black Hole, Physicist, Scientist, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Mainstream media writes Windows obit

Mainstream media writes Windows obitMS should have never...killed off XP. Especially when such a huge segment of the market is tired of being forced fed what they do not want.This article makes a good point about users beginning to realize that as long as they can hit the web rather...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), LIKE IT, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., mainstream media, Windows obit, Microsoft Windows Vista, obit, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-05