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• secretbuilders wins 2009 NAPPA Award - Earthtimes (press release)

  
  Webkinz - Collectible Stuffed Animal Toys — Authority: 134
  secretbuilders wins 2009 NAPPA AwardEarthtimes (press release)secretbuilders joins the ranks of past winners such as Club Penguin and Webkinz. secretbuilders, however, is unique among virtual worlds in how it attracts …and more »
  5 hours ago

• AM Radio Waves In Space

  
  cyberloom — Authority: 98
  Sky and desert AM Radio’s installation of satellite dishes has closed. Thanks to the NPIRL group notice from Bettina Tizzy I knew the exhibit was about to vanish away so I flew over to the location to grab a few final hour photos. Satellite dishes and jeep by AM Radio Dusk in the desert Listening to ...
  15 hours ago

• SLOODLE wins 4th Novatica Award

  
  Learning Games — Authority: 407
  From http://www.stellarnet.eu/news/2009/11/03/50/ : In the 4th edition of the Novática Award for the best paper published by the journal in 2008, the jury has selected the article of Daniel Livingstone from the University of the West of Scotland and Jeremy Kemp from San José State University on “Integrando ...
  19 hours ago

• [conf] Second Life Roundtable on Virtual Worlds and Nonprofits this Thursday, November 12

  
  Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative — Authority: 420
  This Thursday, November 12, Global Kids is hosting a Fall 09 Roundtable on Virtual Worlds and Nonprofits, from 12-1:30pm PST on MacArthur Island in Second Life ( teleport link ).   Representatives of five leading nonprofit organizations will give brief presentations on their initial explorations of Second Life ...
  21 hours ago

• Leaked test feedback offers insights into Linden Lab design processes

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Back, just before Halloween, a Linden Lab staffer accidentally sent an email intended for internal circulation to a mailing list containing quite a number of Second Life users. We were sent a copy a few minutes later, and the email was widely circulated among developers of third-party Second Life viewers by ...
  23 hours ago

• Modern Warfare 2: Blockbuster Multiplayer

  
  dailywireless.org — Authority: 526
  Modern Warfare 2 is universally expected to be the biggest video game of 2009, says Venture Beat . The game debuted tonight at midnight Eastern time as retailers around the country held midnight events. The game is part of the Call of Duty franchise but set in the context of modern anti-terrorist combat. ...
  1 day ago

• Racism in Virtual Worlds

  
  racismreview.com — Authority: 535
  Two social psychologists from Northwestern University conducted one of the first experimental field studies in a virtual, online world and found racial biases operate in much the same ways that they do in the material, offline world.   The study’s co-investigators are Northwestern’s Paul W. Eastwick, a ...
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• Is There Really Mass Confusion Around the Term of ‘Virtual World’?

  
  Virtual Speak — Authority: 120
  The recent 3DTLC conference brought together many virtual world enthusiasts to convene and re-think the future of virtual worlds. Among one of the more talked about topics at the conference was defining (or rather redefining) the term ‘virtual world,’ is it still the correct term to use or are there better terms ...
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• Dulce et Decorum Est (Virtually)

  
  RSC NewsFeed — Authority: 479
  The First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University have collaborated on an exciting new project in the 3D virtual world Second Life to simulate areas of the Western Front 1914-18. The team believes this is the first time anything of its type has been done on Second ...
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• The Obligitary Wave Post – with added AR

  
  Learning Games — Authority: 407
  I’ve been spending a little time with Google Wave over the last week or so – nothing much, just very light puttering about. I think there are issues about persistance, vulnerability of public waves to vandalism (much more fragile than Wiki), and a general messiness as folk try and figure out how to actually use ...
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• This Week in OpenSim Dev - week ending Saturday 7th November 2009

  
  justincc.org — Authority: 112
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Sulake Is Going For The Adult Market With Bobba Bar. Beer Anyone?

  
  ArcticStartup — Authority: 557
  Sulake , the company behind the popular Habbo Hotel, a virtual world for teenagers with 14,600,000 montly unique visitors, has come out with a new service, Bobba Bar . Bobba Bar is virtual bar where, according to Sulake, you can meet and make friends. And it’s not just any virtual bar, it’s a virtual bar for ...
  2 days ago

• The Swerve is Real

  
  avocatio virtualis — Authority: 108
  Adam Smith was missing something from the whole picture. http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1035 This is the swerve, the clinamen of Epicurus. This is what Louis Bachelier and Adam Smith didn’t know about motion. You cannot have one invisible hand bringing the market into equilibrium. You need TWO ...
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• Disruptive technology adoption is a uphill battle

  
  MixedRealities — Authority: 129
  I have my doubts about virtual worlds becoming mainstream anytime soon – mainstream as in being used on an almost daily basis by a majority of internet users. There are of course very neat demonstrations of how virtual environments can be used for demonstration and communication purposes. On SecondLifeUpdate.com I ...
  2 days ago

• Collaboration within organisations increases productivity - new report

  
  eGov AU — Authority: 492
  When I stepped into the public sector just over three years ago, in terms of workplace collaboration it was like stepping back twenty years. I found that staff directories were merely lists of names, titles and phone numbers - without listing peoples expertise, qualifications, experience, current projects and ...
  2 days ago

• Metaworld (24/7) and Metaverse Week in Review (Sundays 12pm SLT)

  
  Second Life: Music, DJs, Nightlife, Art, and Creativity — Authority: 128
  METAWORLD : Public Service Broadcasting for Virtual Citizens : News, views and events from the metaverse and dimensional web. Metaworld2 welcomes " Metaverse Week In Review " with Mal Burns and Tara Yeats (plus many more live guests) weekly on Sundays. Noon SLT . There is always a lot of news programming ...
  2 days ago

• Second Life Enterprise breaths new life into Second Life

  
  The Social Media Soapbox — Authority: 106
  “Twitter is over,” my partner at work, David, constantly chides me.  Even though I point out that Twitter isn’t just about telling people what you had for breakfast.  He goes on, “Look what happened to Second Life, you thought that was going to change the world too. Now it’s dead.”  That’s not exactly ...
  3 days ago

• [ s t y l e ] Thank You Lion!

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 170
  Once again, Lion Jonesford from Lion Skins has been extremely generous and offered all LeeZu! models a free skin of choice from her newest skin lines, Ying & Yang.  I immediately TP-ed over to check them out and I fell absolutely in love with the variety of funky make ups.  I picked out Ying Pale 10.  The ...
  3 days ago

• Real world physical beauty pressures in Second Life

  
  Cuppytalk — Authority: 122
  A blog post was posted on Pixels and Policy last week about female avatars in Second Life . Out of 40 female avatars interviewed, 70% regarded their bust size as a primary concern when creating a Second Life avatar. Real-world females proved more likely to rebel against the Second Life ideal described by one female ...
  3 days ago

• Supercomputing Handhelds

  
  dailywireless.org — Authority: 526
  At the Utah Technology Council’s Hall of Fame event in Salt Lake City on Friday ( video ), Google CEO Eric Schmidt described his vision of a 100-megabit broadband supercomputer in every pocket. “ A billion people on the planet are carrying supercomputers in their hands ,” Schmidt said. “Now you think of ...
  3 days ago

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