Online worlds vs. Social Networks

Friday, April 4th, 2008

photo by L*u*z*a* My friend Roo is going to moderate a panel today at the Virtual Worlds 2008 conference in New York on 'Evolution of Games and Social Networks', with people from Sony, Google, and Millions of Us on, and he said "What would you like me to ask them?". Now you ...

Transcript of my talk at Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Here is the transcript of my talk at Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon from yesterday, entitled "The New Renaissance". It is fairly long: you can find the full text on Scribd. [13:04] Sophrosyne Stenvaag: Hey everybody, welcome - we'll be starting in a few minutes - still lots of people coming in - ...

Speaking at ‘Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon’: “The New Renaissance”

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Tomorrow I will be speaking at Extropia Core at 1PM PST, invited by Sophrosyne Stenvaag for her 'Saturday Salon' conversations. The title of my speech is going to be "The New Renaissance"

Strategic Marketing Evolves - lecture at the California School of International Management

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Here is the slidecast of my lecture from yesterday at the California School of International Management | View | Upload your own David Orban "Strategic Marketing Evolves - The changing role of brands in the network age" Disintermediation is immediacy. After a hiatus of ten thousand years, during which more and more sophisticated ...

Seminar about strategic marketing and today’s technologies

Friday, February 1st, 2008

I have been invited to hold a lesson at the California School of International Management's course on Strategic Marketing. The lesson will be delivered online, via Skype, and Second Life on the island of Lipari, on Wednesday, February 6, starting 2PM PST (11PM CET). If you would like to attend ...

Programmers are crucial to the advancement of any new computing metaphor

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

In the 80s when graphical user interfaces were starting be common, there was a saying among a certain class of programmers: "Real men don't use mice". This represented the feeling of superiority of the command line, and that in turn came not necessarily from something intrinsically inferior in GUIs, but ...

Video of my panel at the Virtual Worlds Forum in London

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

A couple of weeks ago I participated in the Virtual Worlds Forum conference in London, and I have now put online the video of the panel at which I spoke, as kindly allowed by Sasha Frieze who put the conference together with great results: "From e-tail to v-business: are virtual ...

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 ...

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 ...