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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
There is an interview in UgoTrade blog bridging the digital divide of virtual realities in World 2.0 with Ben Goertzel of Novamente and me, talking about Artificial General Intellige, and Genetic Algorithms in Second Life.
The 'San Francisco Chronicle' has a front page article dedicated to the Singularity Summit, entitled "When Machines Think".
Is it a good thing when a meme enters the mainstream? Is the meme of Singularity ready for the exposure?
The natural cycle of media coverage from hype to bashing is starting to be complete around Second Life, to the relief of many. At the end of this cycle it is much easier to concentrate on the values added by the platform, and the more interesting or exclusive applications that ...