Monthly Archives: March 2010

Wed, Mar 31 2010
The OpenSim front porch

The OpenSim front porch

The Internet is a wide, and anonymous place. For me, it’s always a slight shock when I comment on someone’s blog post — and they comment back, or send me a personal “thank you”... 

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Tue, Mar 30 2010
Initiative offers free virtual land to educators

Initiative offers free virtual land to educators

Press Release: Immersive Education 2010 Summit Attendees to Receive $2,500 in Permanent Virtual World Land BOSTON, Mass. – The Immersive Education Initiative today revealed that it will provide permanent... 

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Sun, Mar 28 2010
Obscurity is not security

Obscurity is not security

Back in the early days of Internet technology it was feasible to have “security by obscurity” — putting up a document on the Internet, say, but making the address so complicated that... 

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Sun, Mar 28 2010
Where to get content for an OpenSim grid

Where to get content for an OpenSim grid

One of the common complaints enterprises have about OpenSim is that if they set up a private grid, they’ll have to create all the content from scratch. Employees will have to create their own hair,... 

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Fri, Mar 26 2010
Law firm holds meetings, training in Second Life

Law firm holds meetings, training in Second Life

New Orleans law firm Jones Walker has been conducting meetings and training programs in Second Life, the company announced this month. “We created office space where we could conduct meetings, make presentations,... 

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Thu, Mar 25 2010
VenueGen Launches Browser-Based 3D Business Meeting Platform

VenueGen Launches Browser-Based 3D Business Meeting Platform

Press Release: First On-Demand, Photo-realistic Virtual Meetings & Events Platform Launches at DEMO Spring 2010 March 22 /PRNewswire/ — [DEMO Spring 2010]  Today, VenueGen (www.venuegen.com)... 

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Sat, Mar 20 2010
UBM to triple virtual conferences in 2010

UBM to triple virtual conferences in 2010

Business media giant UBM will triple the number of its InXpo virtual conferences this year, the company said in a statement. According to an agreement the two companies signed earlier this month, UBM will... 

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Sat, Mar 20 2010
Designing for virtual visitors

Designing for virtual visitors

In the last couple of weeks we’ve been traveling all over the hypergrid, here at Hypergrid Business, as preparation for the launch of our Hypergrid Worlds directory of hypergrid destinations. And... 

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Thu, Mar 18 2010
Queen’s hosts Canada’s first virtual law conference

Queen’s hosts Canada’s first virtual law conference

Press Release: Queen’s University Faculty of Law will host Canada’s first virtual law conference on March 18. Roughly 20 academics from Canada, the U.S. and around the world will gather at the Queen’s... 

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Wed, Mar 17 2010
Coca-Cola forced to shut down CCMetro as There.com closes

Coca-Cola forced to shut down CCMetro as There.com closes

Coca-Cola’s virtual presence in There.com is now history, but few other enterprises will be affected by the loss of this virtual world, experts say. Coca-Cola's CCMetro center in There.com. (Image... 

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Wed, Mar 17 2010
Remedy presents amputee rehab project

Remedy presents amputee rehab project

One of the great things about the Internet is that it connects people who, in the past, have had a hard time keeping in touch. In researching the phenomena of medical amputees rehabilitating and re-integrating... 

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Wed, Mar 17 2010
Teleplace focuses on app sharing

Teleplace focuses on app sharing

When business users get together for a virtual meeting, they’re not interested in showing off the latest dance moves or hairstyles – they want to share PowerPoint presentations, work together on... 

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Sun, Mar 14 2010
OpenSim grids grow 10% this month

OpenSim grids grow 10% this month

The world’s top 40 OpenSim-based grids gained over 900 regions over the past month, from 8,626 to 9,533, an increase of more than 10 percent. As usual, OSGrid was the single biggest gainer, with... 

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Fri, Mar 12 2010
Social gamers willing to do marketing work for points

Social gamers willing to do marketing work for points

Press Release: More than Half of Social Gamers Willing to Complete a Marketing Action to Earn Virtual Currency Data also shows strong incremental lift from new alternative payment methods San Francisco... 

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Thu, Mar 11 2010
OpenSim security 101

OpenSim security 101

Enterprises rolling out new OpenSim grids are often concerned about security issues of running OpenSim, and justifiably so. OpenSim is alpha software and still poses some security challenges. However,... 

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Wed, Mar 10 2010
Project Wonderland finds new home

Project Wonderland finds new home

Press Release: Open Wonderland Foundation Launch St. Paul, Minnesota, March 10, 2010 – Today Ken Miller, the CEO of Virtual Learning Labs, announced the formation of the Open Wonderland Foundation... 

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Mon, Mar 8 2010
CloudSlam selects 3DXplorer for virtual conference

CloudSlam selects 3DXplorer for virtual conference

PRESS RELEASE: 3DXplorer Cloud-Based Full 3D Immersive Platform For Virtual Events Powers CloudSlam’s Virtual Expo Hall and The C-Level Networking Lounge Irvine, California & Toronto, Canada –... 

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Mon, Mar 8 2010
Rivers Run Red CEO discusses virtual supermarket planning

Rivers Run Red CEO discusses virtual supermarket planning

Rivers Run Red CEO Justin Bovington is scheduled to discuss how virtual worlds can be used to design retail spaces in Second Life today at 2 p.m. Pacific, 5 p.m. Eastern time at a live taping of the... 

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Thu, Mar 4 2010
COMDEX goes virtual

COMDEX goes virtual

PRESS RELEASE: Introducing the New COMDEX, the Next Generation in Virtual Events Creating a Global Connection for the Technology Sales Community Framingham, MA, March 4, 2010 – Everything Channel,... 

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Wed, Mar 3 2010
OpenSim one step closer to in-world media

OpenSim one step closer to in-world media

OpenSim moved one step closer to full support for Second Life Viewer 2 media on in-world surfaces this week, with the completion of an extensive project to rearchitect the way the open-source software... 

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Tue, Mar 2 2010
There.com to shut down

There.com to shut down

Press Release: There.com is closing on March 9th, 2010 In 2003, There.com was launched as a 3D Immersive Virtual World for everyone. Unlike other products, There was designed from the beginning... 

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Tue, Mar 2 2010
In-world payments come to OpenSim grids

In-world payments come to OpenSim grids

Germany’s Grid4Us and GermanGrid launched in-world money systems yesterday, using the VirWox virtual payment system. The virtual money — Open Metaverse Currency — is fully convertible... 

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Mon, Mar 1 2010
Cyberlandia switches to distributed model

Cyberlandia switches to distributed model

In a move which may be followed by other current and future private world operators, the Italian Cyberlandia grid has switched from a centralized to a distributed architecture model. The result? Lower... 

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Mon, Mar 1 2010
Gronstedt to discuss virtual strategic planning

Gronstedt to discuss virtual strategic planning

Anders Gronstedt, president of the Gronstedt Group, presents a case study about how high-level executives make some of their biggest decisions in Second Life today at 2 p.m. Pacific, 5 p.m. Eastern time... 

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