Virtual worlds

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• Is Linden Lab wasting its time on the existing Second Life population?

  
  Massively — Authority: 678
  Going over the Second Life metrics that are available to us , it seems clear that this virtual environment has reached one of its most significant growth plateaus, and one that it doesnt seem to be able to push past. User-to-user transactions, active users, weekly/monthly logins, all remain very flat. All the ...
  2 hours ago

• Booyah’s mobile app MyTown turns the real world into Monopoly

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Bookmark this categoryWe’ve written about plenty of location-based services that use elements of gaming to keep users glued and reach critical mass. But what about games that happen to use the real world as a virtual playground?Kleiner Perkins-backed Booyah is exploring this with its latest app MyTown. It’s kind ...
  15 hours ago

• Gaming Addiction and Autism: British study

  
  ExGamer.net — Authority: 104
  Thanks to Juice15 at On-Line Gamers Anonymous. This is another study showing correlations between excessive gaming and undesirable outcomes. Does the study take into account other possible influences on gamers’ mental health issues and learning deficits? I have sent an email to the study’s author seeking ...
  17 hours ago

• Avatar: Cant wait any longer

  
  Positive Technology Journal — Authority: 118
  I just can not wait for the new James Camerons movie Avatar... I miss this sensation since Matrix but the countdown is running, really few days are left
  22 hours ago

• The Daily Grind: Is it lonely in here, or is it just me?

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 159
  Filed under: Culture , Opinion , The Daily Grind , Academic , Virtual worlds Theres nothing like the feeling of going back to an old favorite. You might or might not be enjoying Champions Online , but either way it could inspire you to go back to City of Heroes to see how the old stomping grounds are ...
  1 day ago

• The Daily Grind: Is it lonely in here, or is it just me?

  
  Massively — Authority: 678
  Theres nothing like the feeling of going back to an old favorite. You might or might not be enjoying Champions Online , but either way it could inspire you to go back to City of Heroes to see how the old stomping grounds are faring. Final Fantasy XIV might put you in the mood to take a trip into Final ...
  1 day ago

• Steam and Spitfire in the MellaniuM Dome

  
  cyberloom — Authority: 107
  When you are first preparing to enter any Web.Alive site (following the necessary download) it seems you are always greeted with a view of your avatar and welcome screen. I wrote about my first visit to web.alive the other day and was delighted to receive some useful information in my comments section from Joe ...
  1 day ago

• Wizard101 school housing info and video

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 159
  Filed under: Fantasy , Patches , Player Housing , Free-to-play , Virtual worlds , Kids , Wizard101 Wizard 101 isnt everyones cup of tea, but its been doing quite well for itself and certainly delivers on the premise of letting players take on a wizards role. Well... mostly, anyway. The player housiing ...
  1 day ago

• Wizard101 school housing info and video

  
  Massively — Authority: 678
  Wizard 101 isnt everyones cup of tea, but its been doing quite well for itself and certainly delivers on the premise of letting players take on a wizards role. Well... mostly, anyway. The player housiing has sadly been lacking options for some of the more eccentric wizards out there. After all, a nice townhouse is ...
  1 day ago

• Innovative educator Leslie Jarmon dies

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 167
  University faculty member and instructional innovator Leslie Jarmon died on Nov. 24 after a 15-year battle with cancer. She was 57. Jarmon was an early adopter of instructional uses of virtual worlds, becoming a role model and advocate for colleagues looking to create new models in pedagogy through innovative uses of ...
  2 days ago

• Zynga Unleashes PetVille, Puts GoPets To Sleep

  
  Virtual Worlds News — Authority: 498
  This week Zynga unleashed its latest social game, PetVille .As the name implies, PetVille is Zyngas entry into the time-tested butcrowded "virtual pet" genre of social game. Users can adopt and playwith virtual pets, earning items to customize their virtual homes andappearances. What is curious about the sudden ...
  2 days ago

• Coming of age

  
  my vedana — Authority: 118
  Im really enjoying the Boellstorff book Coming of Age in Second Life. I thought that this was right on the button: Second Life culture is profoundly human. It is not only that virtual worlds borrow assumptions from real life; virtual worlds show us how, under our very noses, our "real" lives have been "virtual" all ...
  2 days ago

• Linden Lab to test new house/land incentive for premium Second Life accounts

  
  Massively — Authority: 678
  While the growth of Second Life new-user registrations remains steady, as do active users, the number of premium accounts in Linden Labs virtual world had entered into an accelerating decline, last time we had any data available to us. This is hardly surprising, as tweaks to the land-centric Second Life ...
  2 days ago

• Linden Lab to test new house/land incentive for premium Second Life accounts

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 159
  While the growth of Second Life new-user registrations remains steady, as do active users, the number of premium accounts in Linden Labs virtual world had entered into an accelerating decline, last time we had any data available to us. This is hardly surprising, as tweaks to the land-centric Second Life ...
  2 days ago

• Weekly Wrap: 10 Social Media Commandments, Glee Obsession, Life Without Facebook, Digital Content is the Future, PS3 Social Upgrade, Life After Oprah, Pakistani Youth & More!

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 468
  Youth Impact Report 09 > Ryan Murphy full of Glee > Series creator has the youth audience by the throat">Ryan Murphy full of Glee : Thanks to his breakout Fox hit "Glee," Ryan Murphy not only has hisfinger on the pulse of the youth market -- he has it firmly by thethroat, so to speak. The exuberant ...
  3 days ago

• Virtual Footsteps

  
  The Attic — Authority: 135
  Google has added Pompeii to its Streetview service. Apparently, you can also virtual-visit Stonehenge. Im very interested in visuality, especially of places, and Google Streetview to me is a fascinating meld of traditional cartography with filmic visuality, so that the mapped point of view becomes both omniscient and ...
  3 days ago

• The Tiger Woods accident simulated in 3D shows the future of newscasts

  
  I, Lamont — Authority: 408
  Spotted on Fake Steve Jobs : A video from a Taiwanese news program that depicts Tiger Woods car crash using 3D animation (starts at 15 seconds in): Some people may find the use of an anguished avatar (Woods wife) in a machinima clip to be funny. Indeed, I suspect that this unusual format for reporting the news is the ...
  3 days ago

• CyberBullying Tragedies and Internet Safety: eModeration Part3

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 121
  Dec. 3, 2009 Just visited the excellent Connect Safely forum to pose the industry question, is there ANYthing that digital moderators or online advocates could’ve done in the child safety realm to prevent the loss of 13-year old Hope Witsell due to the suicide/sexting case? Obviously, Hope’s ...
  3 days ago

• The Consumer Connection: New Revenue Drivers for A Toy Industry in Transition - Virtual Worlds News

  
  Webkinz - Collectible Stuffed Animal Toys — Authority: 141
  The Consumer Connection: New Revenue Drivers for A Toy Industry in TransitionVirtual Worlds NewsWeb-enabled toys (Webkinz, etc…) and mobile brand extensions (think iphone and itouch versions of toys) provide toy companies with a direct connection to …
  3 days ago

• Awesome machinima about community in Second Life by Ill Clan Studios

  
  The Click Heard Round the World — Authority: 470
  Heres the latest in a series of machinima videos produced by Ill Clan Studios about the virtual world of Second Life .  This one focuses on the community-aspects of Second Life, arguably its strongest attribute versus other platforms out there.  Great work as always, Ill Clan!  I just wish my SL experience was ...
  3 days ago

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