In and earlier article I mentioned the 7 things marketers could learn from online games, and IBM published a report on how games can teach important leadership skills of the future. Now John Seely Brown, a scholar at the University of South Carolina and Douglas Thomas, an associate professor at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication [...]

Posted on: February 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Just a quick post, as I haven’t been following the in-depth discussion on the big event this weekend as well as I should have: Linden Labs Banning banking in Second Life. This means banks will be closed, mass withdrawals from whatever bank didn’t flee the scene yet, and demonstrations at the banks and by the [...]

Posted on: January 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »

“Within five years, the 3-D Internet will be as important for work as the Web is today. Information and knowledge management professionals should begin to investigate and experiment with virtual worlds.”
‘Find out why by buying our eReport for a measly $279′
If this would be just any website we’d laugh at this ‘obvious scam’. Make a [...]

Posted on: January 9, 2008 | No Comments »

Celebrity Pornstar Jenna Jameson will be making a grand appearance in Second Life. Click here (NSFW) or here (SFW) if you don’t know who Jenna Jameson is (or want to pretend you don’t). Her label ‘Club Jenna’ will bring real life adult material into Second Life, a 3d platform to be part of her 2d [...]

Posted on: January 5, 2008 | 8 Comments »

 
Metaversed send out a (Second Life) group notice this morning announcing a new business they will be launching. Metaversed.com is a news site, reporting about Second Life and virtual world events. Metaversed/Metanomics is a platform for business meetings/seminars within Second Life. Both their website and inworld presence have been quite popular so far and they continue [...]

Posted on: January 4, 2008 | 14 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 »

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 »