After the inspirational Dutch Virtual Worlds meet up of last month, the Eduverse team presents the ’sequel’ - The Eduverse Symposium. A meeting to take place this afternoon in deBalie - Amsterdam on the ever increasing phase we add information to the world, and how this influences our educational system. With a wide range of [...]
Posted on: February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
From top-left to bottom right: Crowdmining, e-Learning, Content Development, (Social) Networking, (Adult) Entertainment, Avatarising/Real World Branding, In-world Economy, 3D Platform Applications, Art & Expression, Branded Worlds (Consumer engagement/Preferred Advertising), Experimenting (Fast Prototyping, Simulation and Scientific Research), RL Cost Reductions/Communication Efficiency, Gaming, Market Research (Polls), User Facilitation (Services for the users of the metaverse). Suggestions are [...]
Posted on: February 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just now I stumbled upon ‘Linden Lab thinks about RL/SL friends matching‘ over on the mrtopf.de blog, discussing an interesting proposal by Linden Labs (Second Life) VP Marketing & Community Developer Robin Linden:
“Yesterday at Robin Linden’s office hour she asked at some point if we are ok with the following idea: On signup to Second [...]
Posted on: February 18, 2008 | 6 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 »
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 »
