Virtual Worlds

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• Week in review: Company-decimating soda bottles, Metaplace’s vanishing virtual worlds

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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• Weekly Wrap: Saving Our Web-Addled Brains, Augmented Reality Marketing, TVs Decade, Mobile App Boom, Kindles Killer Holiday, Texting In The USA, Social Media 2010, Texing Mania & More!

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 426
  Linda Holmes: 10 Reasons This Was TVs Decade">10 Reasons This Was TVs Decade : Ten years ago this month, there was almost no reality television,and the networks still had a near-stranglehold on quality scriptedcontent. People generally watched TV using that quaint device, atelevision set — and for most people, ...
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• RedSphereArt – La Grasse Matinée – Exhibition of Photography and mixed media

  
  APLINK - itsReal — Authority: 120
  Red Sphere Art (an Art Hub for art galleries, artists & like-minded art lovers) will enable galleries and artists to establish their own virtual galleries and creative spaces on-line and promote and sell their work with the in-built e-commerce functions and tap into almost limitless social and business networking ...
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• Second Life user-concurrency spends year in slow decline

  
  Massively — Authority: 638
  Back in March this year, Second Life was closing in on Everquest in terms of peak popularity. Everquest itself peaked at approximately 90,000 concurrent users during its most popular period and Second Life came within a whisker of that at 88,199. Since then, though, Second Lifes user-concurrency (as ...
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• Second Life user-concurrency spends year in slow decline

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 158
  Filed under: EverQuest , Business models , Opinion , Second Life , Virtual worlds Back in March this year, Second Life was closing in on Everquest in terms of peak popularity. Everquest itself peaked at approximately 90,000 concurrent users during its most popular period and Second Life ...
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• Speaking of Virtual Worlds…(Week of December 21-25)

  
  Virtual Speak — Authority: 116
  Happy Holidays to one and all from Visual Purple! A weekly wrap-up on what’s going on within the Virtual World sphere and beyond! Click on any of the below titles to read the full story. Why Smart Brands are Jumping Into Virtual World Marketing Second Life Looking Back: 2009 Uncovered Habbo, Facebook Link ...
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• Gal Gamers Geekier Than Guys - A study in the Journal of Communication

  
  Second Life: Music, DJs, Nightlife, Art, and Creativity — Authority: 427
  Gal Gamers Geekier Than Guys A study in the Journal of Communication found that women who engage in a role-playing game online actually spend more time in the alternate reality than the guy players do. Karen Hopkin reports. Listen to this podcast: Download this podcast Picture a gamer, someone ...
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• Bang go the shed doors, slam, slam, slam…*

  
  Lee's new-look Better Communication Results blog — Authority: 426
  Metaplace is closing, so is (it would seem) Forterra (laying off 60% of its staff is not a good sign). As Karl Kapp says , It is inevitable that the 3D Virtual World space will have acquisitions, mergers and failures. It is all part of the technology growth cycle, we’ve seen it before with e-learning companies ...
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• Forterra Systems laid off nearly 50% of its workforce

  
  MixedRealities — Authority: 129
  Erica Driver follows up on her news about hard times at Forterra Systems with an interview with Robert Gehorsam, president of the company. We learn that the company has laid off nearly 50% of its workforce since November 20 th .  Driver: Many of the layoffs took place last week. Forterra now has 20 employees, ...
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• OpenSim 0.6.8 source packages released

  
  justincc.org — Authority: 114
  Hi folks.  The OpenSim 0.6.8 source packages are now ready for download either in tar.gz or .zip form.  The source code in these packages needs to be built before they can be used.  Binary packages should follow in the next few weeks (there isn’t a continuous end-to-end process for producing these yet).  I ...
  4 days ago

• Memorializing in real life and real time

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Last week, a friend of a friend died by suicide. This friend of mine found out about her friends death via Twitter. "Of all places!" you may be thinking, but let me explain. My friend, Leigh, and her friend, Gideon, had connected online. Gideon had a number of "virtual" friends, people who considered him part of ...
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• Santa’s Helpers

  
  dailywireless.org — Authority: 438
  An 85-foot-tall blue spruce from Arizona has become the Capitol Christmas Tree . TracktheTree.com , a web portal designed by SkyBitz , provided real-time tracking of the Capitol Christmas Tree Caravan , during its 21-day, 4,167-mile circuitous journey from Arizona to Washington DC. The technology behind ...
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• Social Web Words Widget – 1000 Quotes of the Decade

  
  PERSONALIZE MEDIA — Authority: 91
  1000 selected quotes from 2000-2010 by 100 key thinkers about the Social WebI have been trying hard to think of an insightful retrospective post for the end of the decade but decided, that like the decade itself, it might be best to distill a broader perspective than my own blinkered viewpoint Also I thought it ...
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• Metaplace: Your (Virtual) Universe is Ending

  
  Web 2.0 — Authority: 109
  © wellohorld San Diego, Calif.-based Metaplce is pulling the plug on 70 thousand user-created virtual worlds on January 1st. While Metaworld was one of the best platforms for user-created virtual worlds, its found Ralph Koster says it simply wasnt making it as a business. Koster has asked that the last few days of ...
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• Virtual worlds vs. other social media: a matter of dealing with hard choices?

  
  MixedRealities — Authority: 129
  Metaplace Central was in a state of shock and sadness after the announcement of the closing down of Metaplace.com We Are the Network had quite some participants today, which was only normal with a  subject such as  the end of Metaplace.com , the lay-offs at Forterra Systems and what this means for virtual worlds. ...
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• Metaplace to Shutter Virtual World Creation Service

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 536
  San Diego- Metaplace, a company that offered virtual world-building software, hasannounced plans to shut down after two years of operation, CNET News.comreported. read more
  5 days ago

• Patch 10.6 for Planet Calypso brings item enhancements and a new critter

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 158
  Filed under: Sci-fi , Entropia Universe , Game mechanics , Patches , News items , Virtual worlds The hybrid virtual world / MMORPG Planet Calypso has recently leveled up to version 10.6 and has introduced the brand new system of item enhancement to the game as well as the winner of a community ...
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• Patch 10.6 for Planet Calypso brings item enhancements and a new critter

  
  Massively — Authority: 638
  The hybrid virtual world / MMORPG Planet Calypso has recently leveled up to version 10.6 and has introduced the brand new system of item enhancement to the game as well as the winner of a community contest. Item enhancement is very much like it sounds -- a way to upgrade and customize your weapons and armors -- ...
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• This Week in OpenSim Dev - week ending Saturday 19th December 2009

  
  justincc.org — Authority: 114
  Hello everybody. This is a short summary of OpenSim development for the past week up until the end of last Saturday.  The letters in brackets after bug and feature points are the Git revision identifiers in which the work appears.  We only give the first 6 characters of each revision but this should be enough to ...
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• Real-Life Benefit of Video Games

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 157
  Regular video game users learn to process information faster and more accurately both when they’re playing in virtual worlds and in real-life situations, a new study says.
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