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, as opposed to Second Life, which operates with separate software, like a computer game. Contrasting […]
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 doing that stuff for six months. The big guys may have improved the scalability or […]
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, Android. Lamity is about to launch in Japan, the world’s most sophisticated mobile phone environment. The […]
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 partners. That wall has a new crack in it.
New World Notes reports on a […]
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 for a Second Life blog that posted three articles in six months. This sentence on […]
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 by Scope Cleaver. Congratulations to client and builder.
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 the CSI Second Life episode. Detective Matt Taylor enters the virtual world to chase (guess who) […]
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 threw themselves into the project so hard it hurt. Kudos to principal builder Tracylynne Carpenter, […]
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, reading each slide as they went. They should learn about Pecha Kucha. Look for me […]
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 digital content. It’s a vision that includes virtual worlds, perhaps the first ‘whole of government’ […]
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