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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
- (Images: Virtual worlds via Google)
- (Images: Virtual worlds via Google)VR marches on.I've been wondering when Google was going to get into the virtual reality business. Places like Second Life are nice, but going to "fantasy worlds" only holds my attention for so long. Meeting a person in a real location virtually has been...
- Tags: Virtual reality, Virtual Worlds, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- 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
- Second Life: avatar sued for copyright infringement
- When Second Life's makers, Linden Lab, made the decision to allow users to retain all intellectual property rights for virtual items that they created, it was always likely that the virtual world would someday be dragged into court. And that's exactly what's set to happen.As Reuters reports:Second Life entrepreneur Kevin...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life, Net culture
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- 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
- BBC to screen Second Life documentary in-world
- The Money Programme, a well respected and long running television documentary series from the BBC is to screen a special episode tomorrow, focusing on the virtual world Second Life, and it's burgeoning in-world economy. If you're in the UK, you can watch the show on television as normal, but appropriately,...
- Tags: Second Life, Virtual Worlds
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- 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
- Virtual worlds need open standards
- Virtual worlds need open standardsHave you never heard of VRML or X3D?Need standards!? VRML has been around since 95 and X3D is going strong for several years. Open Standards. ISO at that. www.web3d.org. Jeez, doesn't anyone do their homework anymore? Can't you at least Google?VRML/X3D standards been around for 10...
- Tags: Virtual reality, Scripting languages, open standard, X3D, Virtual Worlds, VRML
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- Second Life to open-source grid; will Google bite?
- Having already taken the timid steps of open-sourcing the code for its client software, Linden Lab have confirmed that theyll be going the whole way, and will soon be opening up the server code for Second Life. This is big news, as it furthers Second Lifes ambitions to be a...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Gallery: brands in Second Life
- There seems no end to the number of high profile brands entering Second Life. From Adidas, Toyota, to Sony-BMG, companies that have embraced the virtual world span many industries.So, inspired by Nic Mithams map of brands in Second Life, I decided it would be fun to put together an image...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- FBI visits Second Life
- Reuters is reporting that Second Lifes makers, Linden Lab, have invited the FBI into the virtual world to investigate and advise on the possible illegality of gambling in-world:"We have invited the FBI several times to take a look around in Second Life and raise any concerns they would like, and...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Amsterdam sold for $50,000
- Going, going, gone. Amsterdam sold for $50,000. Ok its not the real-life city, but the virtual one created in Second Life which was auctioned off this week on eBay. One of the landmark businesses in Second Life, Amsterdam is modeled on the citys red light district and specializes in adult...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Podcast on the law of business communities
- The conference call Mike Madison and I recorded earlier this week in anticipation of our session at Community 2.0 more here and here is now available as part of the Bag and Baggage Podcast or from the Future of Communities blog. We talked about: Defining community and loosely-joined...
- Tags: Attention, Blogging, Collaboration, Compliance, Conferences, Copyright, Defamation, DMCA, Free speech, Identity, Licenses, MGM v. Grokster, Social networking, Social news, Trademark, User generated content, Virtual worlds, Voice
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Take two: public conference call on the law of business communities
- Our rescheduled conference call in anticipation of Community 2.0 details here takes place today at 1:00 p.m. PST/3:00 p.m. EST. Call-in details are here, please join us if you are interested.
- Tags: Attention, Blogging, Collaboration, Conferences, Copyright, DMCA, Free speech, Identity, Licenses, MGM v. Grokster, Social networking, Social news, User generated content, Virtual worlds, Voice
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Section 230 immunizes MySpace from both conduct and speech, says district court
- Evan Brown has a good summary of last weeks Doe v. MySpace decision, wherein a federal district court in Texas threw out claims against MySpace due to the protections provided by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. As Evan describes:Julie Doe, the anonymous minor plaintiff, lied about her...
- Tags: Blogging, Compliance, Free speech, Lawsuits, Privacy, Social networking, User generated content, Virtual worlds
- Blog posts 2007-02-18
- John Edwards' campaign enters Second Life
- It may not be official -- yet -- but thanks to a grass-roots effort, John Edwards has become the first presidential candidate to set-up-shop in Second Life. Jerimee Richir, whose avatar is called Jose Rote, paid-for and developed Edwards virtual headquarters, and, on a voluntary basis, is managing the in-world...
- Tags: Politics 2.0, Second Life, Virtual Worlds
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- 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 mogul regrets DMCA complaint
- Guntram Graef, who along with his wife runs Anshe Chung Studios Second Lifes biggest land owner says that he regrets filing the DMCA complaint which looked to challenge the right of the press to publish images originating from the virtual world. The take-down notice was first filed after a video...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life, DMCA
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
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