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Virtual World: A 3D computer environment in which users are represented on screen as themselves or as made-up characters and interact in real time with other users. Massively multiuser online games...; Full Virtual World Definition >>

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Gallery: Five virtual worlds you need to know about: New virtual worlds are popping up as tools for businesses to make the workplace a little more interesting. Silicon.com's Tim Ferguson visits some of the new office spaces. by ZDNet; Tags: Virtual World, ZDNet, Virtual worlds; Image galleries 2008-10-23
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
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
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
Who will govern virtual worlds?: Who will govern virtual worlds?Who should govern depends on how closely the virtual is to the organicFor examples, let's look at Runescape and Second Life. Runescape is designed to be cut off from the economic life of the organic world. Your membership is either supported by ads or a combination...; Tags: Games, Hacking, RuneScape, Human Beings, Virtual Worlds, virtual economy, virtual world; Discussion threads 2006-12-01
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
CNET interviews the Gandalf of virtual worlds: CNET has an interesting interview with Bruce Damer, a virtual world expert and author of the 1997 book Avatars he also runs the very cool DigiBarn computer museum but thats a different story. "Im sort of a Galdalf of the Grey of virtual worlds", he says. "Ive seen all of...; Tags: Virtual Worlds, virtual world; Blog posts 2006-11-10

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Facebook Connect goes live; Tell your favorite Web site: The curtain has been officially raised on Facebook Connect, a feature that links partner Web sites with the profiles of Facebook members.Techmeme Everyday, Facebook looks more and more like a platform instead of just another social networking site. Now, using Facebook Connect, members can share information about...; Tags: Web, Facebook, Web Site, Curtain, Web Site Development, Social Networking, Web Technology, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-12-04
American auto industry low on fuel and popular support: After today's Senate hearings the Detroit Big Three are nowhere nearer getting any federal aid than they were after their last visit. Whatever you may think of the automakers "plan" to change and become viable, there is no plan in the Senate itself that would lead to a bill that...; Tags: Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, Industry, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-12-04
CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped: Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg; Blog posts 2008-12-04
A Tour of Nortel's WebAlive Virtual World for Business: Nortel's new WebAlive world combines a virtual world with fantastic audio to make a business collaboration platform. Here's a preview of that world. by David Greenfield; Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Virtual World, VoIP, Virtual Reality, Conferencing, David Greenfield; Image galleries 2008-12-04
WebAlive: A Virtual World that Means Business: The campus with its tapered lawns, water fountains, and post-modern styled buildings, were typical of any professional campus. Only this wasn't just any campus. It was Nortel's virtual online campus in WebAlive, its new virtual world service. I was just given...; Tags: Virtual World, Nortel Networks Corp., WebAlive, Altadyn, LDAP Integration, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-12-04
Photos: Production Fisker Karma: The world of plug-in hybrids is about to get a whole lot sexier when the Fisker Karma debuts at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show. by CNET News.com; Tags: Photograph, Plug-in, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-12-04
The emerging case for open business methods: The Internet has been the genesis of countless useful business innovations over the last several decades. These include a globally unified e-mail network, the advent of search engines, the rise of rich user experiences and SaaS, and most recently cloud computing to name but a few. But perhaps...; Tags: Network, Industry, Business, Business Strategy, Business Method, Reasons Organization, Dave Bort, Internet, Strategy, Open Source, Management, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2008-12-04
Metatomix seeks to bridge divide between structured and unstructured information: Recently I spoke with Howard Greenblatt, CTO of Semantic Technology company Metatomix. Headquartered in the north-eastern US State of Massachusetts, Metatomix provides a 'Semantic Platform' that; "intelligently connects all of your data in real-time and makes it available to any application, providing a 360° picture...; Tags: Metatomix Inc., Analysis, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-12-04