Ross Dawson over at rossdawsonblog.com created an interesting ‘map’ of webtrends for 2008 called the ‘Trend Blend 2008+‘ (click to see the complete map, PDF warning). The map is based on the Shanghai underground, having 5 major lines (Society, Politics, Economy, Technology, Demographics) - connecting 5 big trends (Digitalisation, Globalisation, Ageing, Anxiety and Virtual Worlds) [...]
Posted on: January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Author and blogger Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff posted a great article on why New Media is so Important. He seems to challenge ‘New Media Nay-sayers’ to point out to him why New Media is not the ‘revolution‘ many prophesize it to to be. The democracy of means to produce seems to have ignited a need to [...]
Posted on: January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
On the internet we present ourselves differently to different audiences. Of course this is not a purely digital phenomena, but the internet has greatly amplified our need, and ability to do so. As Joseph B. Walther, a professor of communication and telecommunication at Michigan State University, told the New York Times in a recent interview, [...]
Posted on: January 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This weekend Orange Island organized a meeting in Second Live of a range of topics, and called it the ‘Orange Geekend’. I was present at an interesting (technical) update by PhD John Plevyak on scalability of Virtual Worlds in the future. Thanks to Simbian Chronos for re-reading my report of this because some of the [...]
Posted on: January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Adam Pasick of Reuters interviewed CEO of Linden Labs, the company behind Linden Labs during his stay at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The interview touched some interesting topics and even though Philip tried his best to stay as political as possible, some to the point questions resulted in some interesting answers. So here [...]
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In between talks at the Orange Island Geekend I left for Clever Zebra Island, hosting a what looked to be interesting event on Advertising. Companies have been searching for a good advertisement/banner system in Second Life for a while now. Second Life works a lot like a blog in the way content created by developers [...]
Posted on: January 25, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The business communicators of Second Life blog posted a very interesting interview with Mary Ellen Gordon, president of research company Market Truths. They asked 9 questions on the value, and how to approach, market research in Virtual Worlds (Second Life in particular). When asked for the reason why to do research in Virtual Worlds at [...]
Posted on: January 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Of to Amsterdam for a casual. cross-platform ‘meeting of the avatars‘. ‘Meet The Avatars’ is a socializing/networking initiative by JoJa Dhara & Ze Moo, and will possibly (hopefully) be the kick-of of a series of meet-ups of professionals in Virtual Worlds. If you are in the Netherlands and want to meet, the meeting is at [...]
Posted on: January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
