Virtual Worlds

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• Next Island to launch a sci-fi adventure virtual world — with time travel

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  Next Island is the latest company to launch an ambitious virtual world. But this sci-fi adventure paradise comes with an interesting twist: time travel. The company is announcing today that it is building a world in the Entropia Universe.That means it has licensed virtual world technology from MindArk, whose ...
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• Building MMO landscape scenes

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 456
  Landscapes have been a staple component of almost every MMO in recent memory. With the exception of some sci-fi titles , most MMOs take place on the land of some imagined island or continent. Some use stylised fantasy landscapes that run smoothly on even low-end computers while others have managed almost ...
  9 hours ago

• Building MMO landscape scenes

  
  Massively — Authority: 691
  Landscapes have been a staple component of almost every MMO in recent memory. With the exception of some sci-fi titles , most MMOs take place on the land of some imagined island or continent. Some use stylised fantasy landscapes that run smoothly on even low-end computers while others have managed almost ...
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• The two-year attention span theory (update)

  
  MixedRealities — Authority: 128
  (adding a PS about the BBC controversy) ArminasX Saiman on Second Effects is musing about the flattening of the online users stats of Second Life. There is the Linden Lab policy on bots which certainly has an impact. Saiman has an additional explanation: the two-year attention span. Whatever people undertake in ...
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• Social Game by ashnika123

  
  Freelancer jobs resources — Authority: 169
  I am looking for someone that will be able to build an app for me that includes virtual currency for social networking. I am looking specifically for a facebook app. It HAS to include a virtual economy/currency... (Budget: $30-250, Jobs: Facebook, Game Design, MySpace, Second Life / Virtual Worlds, Social ...
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• BBC News - What happened to Second Life?

  
  Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check — Authority: 443
  A timely reality check Not long ago Second Life was everywhere, with businesses opening branches and bands playing gigs in this virtual world. Today youd be forgiven for asking if its still going. Once upon a time Second Life had a Twitter level of hype. Even those without a cartoon version of themselves ...
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• The Death and Life of Second Life

  
  broadstuff — Authority: 570
  Looks like Second Life is on its way to join the choir invisibule . Once upon a time (in 2006) it was ubercool to put you business on Second Life. Now its not - BBC quoting Wireds Ben Hammersley being Wise in Hindsight (Wired et al pimped it to the nines at the time - restraint was not their watchword, I recall ): ...
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• Blizzard’s Addiction to Previewing the Future

  
  Wolfshead Online — Authority: 107
  W hat if J.R.R. Tolkien had named his classic fantasy trilogy How Frodo Destroyed the One Ring at Mount Doom ? Thankfully he had the good sense and propriety not to do so as it would have been foolish to have revealed the climax of the story within the title of the book. Part of the reward for the reader who invests ...
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• Free Online Addicting Games

  
  video game reviews — Authority: 143
  (1) ONLINE GAMING Play is an important contributor to human development, maturation and learning. That is why games are an essential ingredient in the curriculum of every school and college and also a popular pastime for adults. However, today’s busy lifestyle and living in matchboxes leave neither time nor room for ...
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• Linden Lab to raise Xstreet fees, loses vendors, products

  
  Massively — Authority: 691
  This week, Linden Lab announced that it was going to start charging listing fees and minimum commissions on its Second Life Xstreet Web-shopping adjunct in the near future. Within hours, vendors took down thousands of products, many abandoning the service entirely in favor of alternative services. Its unclear ...
  3 days ago

• Linden Lab to raise Xstreet fees, loses vendors, products

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 456
  Filed under: Business models , Culture , Economy , News items , Opinion , Second Life , Virtual worlds This week, Linden Lab announced that it was going to start charging listing fees and minimum commissions on its Second Life Xstreet Web-shopping adjunct in the near future. Within hours, vendors ...
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• Your Second Life Avatar Is Dressed Inappropriately

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 447
  Business are slowly adapting to virtual worlds like SecondLife and ScienceSim as ways to hold collaborative virtual meetings and share information, especially as the economy makes air travel and meeting room rentals cost prohibitive.  But as these virtual spaces grow, it becomes an increasingly popular question as to ...
  3 days ago

• What happened to Second Life?

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  Some shops opened with a fanfare then quietly closed. Not long ago Second Life was everywhere, with businesses opening branches and bands playing gigs in this virtual world. Today youd be forgiven for asking if its still going. Once upon a time Second Life had a Twitter level of hype. Even those without a ...
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• Research workshop: Making Sense of Virtual Worlds and User Driven Innovation

  
  Virtual Worlds Research Project — Authority: 112
  The research team of the Virtual Worlds Research project at Roskilde University is excited to announce a 3-day cross disciplinary research workshop entitled ‘Making Sense of Virtual Worlds and User Driven Innovation”, June 7th-9th 2010 in Denmark. We aim to bring together researchers with high-end expertise in ...
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• Weekly Wrap: Shoppers Hit Social Networks, Future of TV, John Mayer & Internet Rule 17, InStyle Augmented Reality Issue, Entertainment Subscriptions Hold Up & More

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 422
  Mobile Will Become the Hub of Multichannel Consumer Relationship : Marketers seeking to sprint out of therecession need to become multichannel-friendly and completelyconsumer-focused, and get over themselves. The need to constructdata-rich profiles of customers, personalize responses to their needsand smartly ...
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• Second Life: After The Hype

  
  UBIWAR — Authority: 433
  The BBC asks What Happened To Second Life? and answers ‘not much’. It’s a valid question but it’s missing the point to focus on the commercial side of Second Life, as this article does. It’s more useful to ask what impact Second Life has had on a wide range of other issues. A quick scan of sites like ...
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• Using Google’s Building Maker to Change the Face of Boston

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 712
  wwwade , IT , mapping Wade Roush wrote: When I was in fifth grade, I wanted to be an architect. (I also wanted to be a geneticist, a meteorologist, and an astronaut. I guess I wound up doing the next best thing to all of those sci/tech careers—writing about them.) I loved my junior builder kit, a ...
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• Growing Pains: Video Games Move Online

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 422
  The Economist has an interesting article about the migration of video games from physical consoles to web-based platforms. While most video game consoles allow users to play online with others, the real growth in online gaming is being fueled by web-based virtual worlds , social and casual gaming platforms. The ...
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• Setting the Stage for Mesh Imports: Second Life, XStreet Listings and the World to Come

  
  Dusan Writer's Metaverse — Authority: 513
  Linden Lab recently announced policy changes on its popular XStreet commerce site in an effort to make the shopping experience more, um, friendly. The Lab cited extensive consultations in launching a “plan that all of our residents have helped us build.” But not just the Residents held sway in the policy decision: ...
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• Supercomputer Application Store

  
  dailywireless.org — Authority: 508
  The Department of Energy is launching a $32 million program to study how scientific codes can make use of cloud technology . Called Magellan , the program will be funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), with the money to be split equally between the the two DOE centers that will be conducting ...
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