From the Department of I Told You So, Google’s Lively has got the boot and Second Life continues to lose corporate traction. Reuters and Avastar have abandoned the platform. Quarter three in Second Life saw negative growth. Business was interested… Continue Reading
Pictured: Me in Lively, streaming Lisa Nova’s Twitter Whore video into my room, Twittery. Lively is described as Google’s answer to Second Life. It’s not. Second Life is a virtual world; Lively is chat software with 3D avatars. It’s browser-based,… Continue Reading
IBM and Second Life have announced the ability to teleport from Second Life into Open Sim grids (an open source version of Second Life). They describe this as a first; well, my business partner Loki Clifton and others have been… Continue Reading
Just because you can create a virtual world like Second Life on a mobile phone platform doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. Lamity is a new virtual world on a mobile phone platform. It’s built on Google’s Open Source software,… Continue Reading
Like many who spend time in Second Life I have virtual friends, virtual business partners and at least one virtual lover. These people live in Europe and the US and are walled off from my real life friends and business… Continue Reading
Lyndon LaRouche, American political figure and economist who was sentenced to 15 years’ jail for fraud has fallen hook, line and sinker for an April 1st joke on a Second Life blog. No, Rupert Murdoch did NOT pay $30 million… Continue Reading
Inside This World is doing a small software job for Princeton in Second Life. They’re our second US University client. Very pleased to be working with such progressive people. They continue their history of architectural adventurousness with a knock-out build… Continue Reading
Less than 9 months after arriving in Second Life, Skribe Forti has positioned himself as a specialist producer of mixed reality video, with at least three international brand names on the showreel. This week he produced a promotional video for… Continue Reading
Pleased to announce our project for BBC World in Second Life is now complete and will be open to the public from Saturday October 6th for a limited time. We have had outstanding support from the Singapore agency Avantworks, who… Continue Reading
SLCC 07 (the Second Life Community Convention) was held in Chicago; it’s my second Second Life convention. I died by Powerpoint twice at the business track. Two people in advertising who should know something about communication inflicted brutally slow talks,… Continue Reading
Singapore’s enthusiastic approach to technology adoption is well known and their sponsorship of the first State of Play conference held outside the US is typically entrepreneurial. The iN2015 Masterplan outlines a vision for Singapore as the world stock exchange for… Continue Reading
Ricoh is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of copiers, fax systems and printers. Our Second Life build for them is a three storey high replica of an Aficio photocopier housing a showroom with working replicas of their latest photocopiers.… Continue Reading
Advertising began with line ads in newspapers in the 17th century. A product description and a price, for a hundred and fifty years until the technology allowed illustrations and eventually color. Illustration saw advertisers link their products to fine art,… Continue Reading
Second Life continues to nose cone social issues. Linden Lab recently flagged the introduction of optional identity and age verification. Yesterday the official Linden blog included an article titled “Keeping Second Life Safe Together“; an Orwellian post that will generate… Continue Reading
Gartner’s prediction that 80% of internet users will be in virtual worlds within four years is already bouncing around the blogosphere. Don’t percentages lend a lovely credibility to a forecast? Would you believe them if they said 79%? Their advice… Continue Reading
My Second Life Development company, Inside This World, recently attended the International Technology Expo (ITE). The product we were demonstrating, the Holodeck, was joint winner of the People’s Choice award for best technology. Over sixty companies exhibited. A nice acknowledgement… Continue Reading
