Who thought Virtual Worlds could only be used for good is sadly mistaken. The axis of evil have found wicked ways to exploit virtual ‘role playing games such as Second Life’, and threaten the free world from within their illusive virtual headquarters, enjoying the dark cover of anonymity. The Washington post tells us:
“U.S. intelligence officials [...]

Posted on: February 7, 2008 | No Comments »

Its not often I find myself agreeing with religious institutions, but the Christian Science Monitor gives us a nice corporate take on Second Life in 2007. In their analysis of digital media over the previous year, they list in ‘the bad’:
“The danger of overhype: There is such a thing as too much good publicity, particularly [...]

Posted on: January 4, 2008 | No Comments »

Here is why I love to read the blogs of ‘Virtual World naysayers’ more so then I like to read the blogs of those that agree with the potential of Virtual Worlds.
After they hit you with 5,000 words of steaming horse pockey about socio-virtual-graph-branding consumer empowerment (or whatever the hell it is they prattle on [...]

Posted on: January 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The biggest problem in technological advancement today is not the technology itself. Its translating its features to understandable changes for the masses. How do you communicate ‘3d web’ when the majority has never heard of web 2.0 and what it has to offer? Do companies understand the technology and will they take the time [...]

Posted on: December 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Here are 9 reasons to believe we have not seen the last of the metaverse yet, drawn from an excellent article in the Guardian, and distilled by Neil Perkin on this interesting marketing and communications blog.

The Swedish virtual world Entropia Universe had a turnover of $365,000,000 last year
Habbo Hotel has about 7 million regulair users [...]

Posted on: November 23, 2007 | No Comments »