Staking a Claim – Memory Institutions take on a [Second] Life of their own You are cordially invited to joint the Round Table discussion for RL and SL participants – ‘Persistent Worlds; will they ever go away’ that will take place on Tuesday, 20th November simultaneously at Hebrew University, Jerusalem (14.30-16.00 local time) and on [...]
Gotta get this one in before Metaverse Richard, just for fun: IBM and Linden Labs are working on avatars that will be able to roam from one virtual world to another. “At the Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo at San Jose, Calif., the two companies are announcing plans to develop open standards that will allow [...]
Holly’s post earlier this week made me realize that mostly we’ve talked here about Second Life’s main “adult” grid. By the terms of service, only those 18 years and older are allowed to login to this space. In order to provide an alternative for teens aged 13-17, Linden Labs created Teen Second Life in 2005. [...]
From Reuters:
This is pretty neat: Granny, 107, takes web by storm AT 107 she is probably the world’s older blogger and cyber granny Olive Riley may also lay claim to being the oldest YouTube user. … She is stunned by the number of people who read her blog but is thrilled by the “thousands of new [...]
This weekend I had the opportunity to attend the Second Life Community Convention – IRL! The convention was different than many of the professional workshops I attend. SLCC is now just three years old and entirely run by volunteer members of the community and included educators, residents, developers, artists, and businesses all mixing and mingling [...]
For the past few weeks, I’ve been idly keeping an eye on some little bits of news about Second Life and There.com. Seems that as the metaverse becomes more active, little earthquakes happen which affect everyone. Take, for example, the news that Linden Labs, the creators of Second Life, are aggressively shutting down gambling enterprises [...]
Warning: whinging ahead. Man, I am so tired of Second Life right now. I’ve not logged on for any appreciable amount of time lately, and certainly not enough to explore some of the really interesting things people are doing with the tools available, or learn about some of the lectures going on. And as my [...]
For the last few months we’ve been running the Metaverse Friday “theme” every week here at Musematic. By now you’ve probably gotten the idea – virtual worlds are something to keep an eye on. But they certainly aren’t the only thing that’s creeping over our horizon. After this week, Metaverse Friday will be moving to [...]
A friend of mine recently forwarded to me a news announcement about a Silicon Valley startup, Multiverse, securing $4.125 million in funding. This isn’t the sort of news item my friends tend to send me (you should see my collection of lolcats), so I was curious about this. Turns out, Multiverse is a company seeking [...]
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