The Metaverse Tribune:
Burning Life 2009 launches highlights of creative expression in Second Life™. While it is my belief that all creative expression is valid and valuable in a world that hastens to demerit art, there are definitely some virtual (Read More)
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Mashable!:
We were sort of surprised to discover how many of you proclaim your love for FarmVille, the social farming sim game from Zynga. We reported that the company had trademarked the name FishVille last month, and speculated that a (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Cyworld, the Korean social giant that could, finally couldn’t. At least not in U.S. It is shutting down its U.S. service, after three years of trying, according to a notice on i (Read More)
Mashable!:
This series is supported by Grasshopper, the Virtual Phone System designed for entrepreneurs. Learn more about Grasshopper at Grasshopper.com.Let’s face it: as an entrepreneur, the odds are stacked against you. Most business (Read More)
GamePolitics News:
Linden Labs has modified its popular Second Life virtual world to allow businesses to get into the act behind the safety of their own firewalls.Launched on Nov. 4 as Second Life Enterprise, the new software creates meeting ro (Read More)
Tech Blog:
The Second Life virtual world has suffered the reality of company firewalls in its attempts to break into the corporate world.But not for much longer. Second Life Enterprise, announced on Wednesday, is a version of the virtua (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Second Life is going corporate. The virtual world already has more than 1,400 companies staging meetings and conferences inside its virtual landscapes. But Linden Lab is now taking Second Life into the companies themselves wi (Read More)
VentureBeat:
If anyone can appreciate the quality of voice calls over the web done right, it’s gamers. That’s the bet that Blabbelon is making as it launches a free voice chat system for game fanatics. The service is based on Skype’s Silk (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on t (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[Germany] With only days away from the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, how best to mark the occasion? Rebuild it or at least a virtual two kilometer stretch. That’s the approach being taken by Metaversum, the (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Chris V. Nicholson, reporter, New York TimesTwo avatars, Leto Yoshiro and Enchant Jacques, met in the virtual world of Second Life in 2005. They married online the same year and built a house together on an island they had (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Metaplace is launching audio chat in its user-generated virtual world platform today, letting users chat with one another in the 70,000 virtual worlds they have created.The San Diego-based company has developed a platform tha (Read More)
Massively:
Filed under: Business models, MMO industry, Virtual worlds, Home, PlayStation HomeOpinions on PlayStation Home seem to differ -- it doesn't have the kind of flexibility and user created content that's made Second Life success (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Scarcity — it’s the first concept drilled into any beginning economics major. And economics is about the production, distribution and consumption of scarce resources.But in virtual economies, one could give a farmer unlimited (Read More)
Kotaku:
And finishing off the PlayStation Home priorities controversy, the service/virtual world's community manager has told users on the official Home forum that the Sony executive was misquoted in reports that he'd said Home is "n (Read More)
Massively:
Filed under: Culture, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Consoles, Virtual worlds, HomeNow here's an odd question that could only be thought up at 8 in the morning. If you own a PS3, are you an avid user of PlayStation Home, or do you (Read More)