Archive for October, 2007

Press roundup of my Virtual Worlds Forum talk

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

At the Virtual Worlds Forum so much has happened really that it will take still many posts to get it all out of my head, if ever. Much quicker then me, because of course it is their job, and also they've got to move on to other assignments, journalists, and ...

Documentary about online worlds: “Inside The Metaverse”

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Last week in London I sat down for about an hour of great chat as I was filmed by director Steven Dhoedt of Visual Antics and his crew for his feature documentary "Inside The Metaverse". I was very pleased with his questions, and hope that my answers were meaningful. Steven is ...

Immmersive Second Life platform: Real 2nd Life!

Monday, October 29th, 2007

At the Laboratory of Eidomatics of the University of Milan, in cooperation with Eximia, the RFID company, a new interface has been developed for visualizing Second Life environments, and interacting with them. See a video about Real 2nd Life! Real 2nd Life an integrated system composed of a semi-circular screen, of almost ...

XMediaLab meeting in London

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Brendan Harkin, Director of X|Media|Lab, kindly invited my to participate in the first European XMediaLab meeting of this new technology think-tank.

Liveblogging the Virtual Worlds Forum - Day 2 - Afternoon

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

I have been continuously giving demos of the immersive Second Life setup, and talking about Second Life analytics suite, etc. :) Thanks to Tishe for pulling lots of interesting people in to see the stuff I was showing! 14:30 Bjorn from HiPiHi is talking about their world, to be released in ...

Liveblogging the Virtual Worlds Forum - Day 2 - Morning

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

09:00 A presentation by BP was, I am sorry to say, impossible to follow. 09:30 Paul Ledak from IBM is speaking on interoperability. His introduction setting the stage is longish, I wonder if he is actually going to say something concrete. The announcement that Linden and IBM made in San Jose ...

Liveblogging the Virtual Worlds Forum - Day 1 - Afternoon

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

13:50 Lunch was very good. Just finger food, so nobody had to sit, and could keep shaking hands, and gesturing. I have to start preparing for my panel, so I don't know how long I will be able to keep writing at this time. 14:10 Kidalicious panel. "Are kids and teenagers ...

Liveblogging the Virtual Worlds Forum - Day 1 - Morning

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

I am in London, about to speak at Virtual Worlds Forum (just realizing that I won't be able to blog live too much while speaking!), and will try to cover as much as possible of the event, with reporting, photos, and more. This post is going to be updated for some ...

Couldn’t liveblog at the World Business Forum, but twittered

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

There were a lot of very good speakers at the World Business Forum, and I was glad to be able and attend some of the sessions, and also to mingle with the other speakers. I met Eisner, from Disney, Chizen of Adobe, Perez of Kodak, Ray Kurzweil, and Colin Powell, ...

Speaking at the Virtual Worlds Forum in London

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

I will be speaking at the Virtual Worlds Forum in London. "From e-tail to v-business: are virtual goods an entirely new category" * What are virtual goods and how is the sector growing? * Understanding the consumer motivation for virtual goods * Is v-business the bright new shiny business model? * Can you bridge the ...