I wish everyone a very happy, insightful and inspirational 2008! This year has been the year where Virtual Worlds where praised and cast out by main stream media. The year of the rise and maturing of the Social Web. The year where Second Life has made it clear 3d Virtual World platforms have a massive [...]

Posted on: December 31, 2007 | No Comments »

This year we’ve seen many brands come and go in Virtual Worlds. Some have invested in their own worlds, other have invested in a presence within social virtual worlds. Today I want to list some of the ways users and corporations have been playing with the Metaverse, creating the following overview of Business models they [...]

Posted on: December 30, 2007 | 9 Comments »

Earlier I reported about Virtual World News’ survey amongst 45 big players in the field of Virtual Worlds, and now they want bloggers to answer the same questions:
VirtualWorldsNews.com wants to know your industry predictions and business goals for 2008. Answer the following questions on your own blog and then post a link to your blog [...]

Posted on: December 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »

In light of my Virtual World ‘Mash Up’ research I opened up a small ‘Digado’ office in Second Life. Apart from being used as my own small Mash Up laboratory I’ve just finished me very own meeting room - Something I’ve been missing so far when dealing with in-world discussions. You can visit my office [...]

Posted on: December 27, 2007 | No Comments »

A new trend, a new Buzzword. Probably the latest one (and very niche) is ‘Avartising’. Avartising is a mix of the words Avatar, and Advertising. A 3d model which translates digital comfort to real world products. You can see hairstyles, clothing, make-up (tattoos and piercings?) on an avatar looking like you, or close enough to [...]

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One of my favorite websites is Trendwatching.com. They list, analyze and explain upcoming trends, hypes and subtrends and present these findings in a very attractive and readable way. With all the lists of predictions for the metaverse being posted, I wanted to see how they connected to the most important Consumer based trends. I’ll start [...]

Posted on: December 25, 2007 | No Comments »

This is going to be a short post because if you haven’t heard about Johnny Lee you should really just look him up on youTube. His latest experiment he shows us perspective based 3d interaction, all for the price of a Wiimote and a pair of safety goggles. His other experiments include a multi-touch screen [...]

Posted on: December 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Usability prayers seem to have been answered with the new (beta)search in Second Life. The re-designed (2d) interface fixes some major problems that have been haunting Second Life from the start. The ‘alphabetic ordering’ and single word search query limitation are things of the past once this search gets installed into the main client.
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Posted on: December 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »