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Category: Virtual Worlds

There Film Festival announces winners… wait, they make machinima in There?

Posted on November 30, 2006 by

Mark at 3pointd.com sent along the news that the There Film Festival just announced the winners of their machinima contest. I was just "meh" about the winner, Wild Griefer, and most of the other entrants. But I really enjoyed the humor and clever set-ups in Machinima in There by Rick Slick.  You can see all…

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“Global Kids Guide to SL Presentations”: Thumbs Up!

Posted on November 29, 2006 by

Barry Joseph of Global Kids just sent out a link to their new "Guide to SL Presenting" that I think is enormously useful for non-profits and really anyone else thinking of holding a mixed real world / Second Life event.  I’ve already added it to the "Best Practices for organizing SL/RW events" wiki.  They cover…

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Forex: New SL Currency Exchange Opens Dec 1

Posted on November 27, 2006 by

Starting at noon SLT on Friday December 1 there’s a new currency exchange in town: the Forex comes to Second Life. The main ways that residents convert between real currency and Second Life Linden Dollars has been through the official SL Lindex market and the SLexchange site.  The difference with the Forex is that it…

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Apple Store coming to SL!?!

Posted on November 23, 2006 by

I got a tip from a posting by Dedric Mauriac on BlogHUD that a new Apple Store was opening in SL.  I TPed over this morning to investigate. And sure enough, there was all the plywood prims laying about that indicate a store in development on Skegemog (Teleport SLURL).  An Apple employee aptly named "Apple…

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“Real Life Places in SL” HUD

Posted on November 21, 2006 by

I just finished playing with the new open-sourced TourHUD created by the Electric Sheep Company for the GSD&M ad agency.   The Tour HUD ("heads up display") is a very easy-to-use tool for creating your own custom tours of various spots in Second Life. There are already two — one for newbie-friendly areas and another of…

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Every Time You Vote against Net Neutrality, Your ISP Kills a Night Elf

Posted on November 20, 2006 by

Hilariously titled "Every Time You Vote against Net Neutrality, Your ISP Kills a Night Elf" an article by Tony Greenberg and Alex Veytsel of Ramprate argues that online massively-multiplayer online games will be the first to get the knife if Net Neutrality provisions go out the window.  They contend that online video will survive in…

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Buy a virtual car — defend freedom on the Net!

Posted on November 19, 2006 by

Motarati announces that all the proceeds of the sales of the virtual Pontiac Solstice GXP will go to benefit the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit that has been defending freedom in cyberspace for as long as there has been a cyberspace.  Suu-weeeet!

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Joi Ito talks to CNET (transcript)

Posted on November 18, 2006 by

The always interesting and cool venture capitalist / gamer Joi Ito gave an interview to Daniel Terdiman of CNET at their in-world headquarters yesterday.  Joi touched on such subjects as copyright and IP in Second Life, Creative Commons, the game industry, and work and World of Warcraft. Daniel will be posting a fuller interview shortly. …

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Returning to the virtual Camp Darfur

Posted on November 17, 2006 by

During the talk that In Kenzo and I gave at RootsCamp on SL political organizing last week, In Kenzo brought up that she and a team of other volunteers had been working very hard over the past months to create the virtual Camp Darfur as an awareness raising and politicizing tool.  I realized that I…

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Joi Ito to be interviewed at CNET HQ in Second Life tomorrow

Posted on November 16, 2006 by

I just heard word that CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman will be interviewing well-known entrepreneur, lEEt g@mr, virtual worlds innovator, and overall cool dude Joi Ito tomorrow (Friday), at 4PM EST/1PM SLT. Joi will talk about his experience using virtual worlds as a tool to manage co-workers, his World of Warcraft guild, and his investments. To…

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