Monthly Archives: September 2010

Thu, Sep 30 2010
How Club One lowers your weight and BP virtually

How Club One lowers your weight and BP virtually

In a recent post, I wrote about how the Club One Fitness program in Second Life helped me lose 20 pounds, lower my blood pressure, and make permanent changes to my lifestyle. A skeptic might read that... 

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Thu, Sep 30 2010
How I lost 20 pounds in Second Life

How I lost 20 pounds in Second Life

Today, my scale shows that I’ve lost 20 pounds over the past three months. In addition, today at my doctor’s office, I learned that, my blood pressure was down, and so was my body mass index. But... 

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Wed, Sep 29 2010
NY, Utah educators get $1 mil NSF grant for OpenSim

NY, Utah educators get $1 mil NSF grant for OpenSim

Press release: NYIT Receives $1 Million Grant from the National Science Foundation Project to Enable Teachers to Use Information and Communications Technologies in the Classroom New York, N.Y.  – New... 

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Wed, Sep 29 2010
How to get rid of ‘real life’

How to get rid of ‘real life’

I’m ending it. Beset by criticism on all sides — okay, just one side — I am officially going cold turkey on “real life.” The phrase, that is, not the living itself. Ron Blechner I’ve... 

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Wed, Sep 29 2010
Cancer charity back to Second Life

Cancer charity back to Second Life

Last week, Laura Crane Trust, a non-profit which provides support to teenage and young adult cancer patients in the U.K., had decided to build its virtual world in OpenSim. Jonathan Tyreman, the charity’s... 

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Tue, Sep 28 2010
What do you want to know?

What do you want to know?

I was in a meeting recently with a local business networking groups going on — as I normally do — about virtual worlds. And the other folks at the meeting expressed an interest in using virtual... 

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Tue, Sep 28 2010
Lindens reverse course on teens

Lindens reverse course on teens

Last month, Linden Lab announced that the Teen Grid was shutting down at the end of the year, sending many educators into a panic at the prospect of losing their virtual projects in the middle of the school... 

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Tue, Sep 28 2010
21,000 attend Cisco’s hybrid sales event

21,000 attend Cisco’s hybrid sales event

Press release: INXPO Virtual Platform Hosts Meeting Industry’s Most Innovative Event, Cisco Global Sales Experience (GSX) 2010 Cisco Advances Their Next Generation Event Technologies with Global... 

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Tue, Sep 28 2010
Teleplace recognized as a ‘top performer’

Teleplace recognized as a ‘top performer’

Press release: Teleplace Named a 2010 Top Training and Simulation Company by Military Training Technology Magazine Selected Companies Are ‘Top Performers’ in Military Training Industry REDWOOD... 

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Tue, Sep 28 2010
Trends in the Virtual Worlds Industry

Trends in the Virtual Worlds Industry

How do you keep up with industry trends?  You hear from the people setting the trends. On September 24th, FountainBlue held its annual virtual worlds conference on Cisco’s campus in Milpitas, CA. The... 

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Tue, Sep 28 2010
Daden to build genetic screening lab in Second Life

Daden to build genetic screening lab in Second Life

Press Release: Daden selected for new genetic screening virtual application Virtual world solution specialists Daden have been awarded a contract to create the laboratory functionality to enable scenario-based... 

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Tue, Sep 28 2010
FireSabre to help educators move content to OpenSim

FireSabre to help educators move content to OpenSim

Press Release: Virtual World Campus for OpenSim HOUSTON, TEXAS  — FireSabre Consulting, a virtual world developer focused on educational clients, responded this week to the announcement by Linden Lab... 

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Mon, Sep 27 2010
OpenSim to have mesh soon after Second Life

OpenSim to have mesh soon after Second Life

The lack of mesh imports has long been a problem for enterprise users of OpenSim and Second Life. But Second Life is about to start open beta testing of mesh — and OpenSim won’t be far behind. According... 

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Fri, Sep 24 2010
Cancer charity turns to OpenSim

Cancer charity turns to OpenSim

Update: The Chat-World project has moved back to Second Life. According to the Laura Crane Trust, cancer is the most common form of non-accidental death in teenagers and young adults in the UK. The Trust... 

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Fri, Sep 24 2010
Sococo launches 2D virtual office spaces

Sococo launches 2D virtual office spaces

Press release: Sococo Debuts Team Space at Demo Fall 2010 New Communication Service For Professionals Demonstrated at Premier Silicon Valley Confab SANTA CLARA, CA — At DEMO Fall 2010, Sococo®... 

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Fri, Sep 24 2010
Virtual worlds use Facebook to gain users

Virtual worlds use Facebook to gain users

You might be interested to learn that virtual world IMVU has almost 1.4 million fans of their Facebook fan page. Why do they use Facebook? Lots of reasons… It’s a marketing and communications channel:... 

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Fri, Sep 24 2010
Utherverse seeks $20 mil investment

Utherverse seeks $20 mil investment

Press release: Utherverse® Digital, the Leader in 3D Virtual World Web™ Development, Seeks First-Ever Venture Funding at Banff Venture Forum Largest Player in Software for 3D Internet Communities Sets... 

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Fri, Sep 24 2010
BU to hold diabetes study in Second Life

BU to hold diabetes study in Second Life

Press release: Wiecha Receives Grant to Study Face-to-Face vs Virtual Health Education for African-American Women BOSTON — Boston University School of Medicine Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs... 

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Thu, Sep 23 2010
There’s something about InWorldz

There’s something about InWorldz

Last week, InWorldz became the second-largest grid running on the OpenSim platform, after shooting up the charts over the course of just the past three months. Between April and September 15, the grid... 

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Mon, Sep 20 2010
UBM Studios to help launch products

UBM Studios to help launch products

Press Release: UBM Studios Introduces LAUNCHPAD, New Virtual Platform to Launch Products and Product Enhancements CHICAGO — UBM Studios, delivering a complete solution for virtual events and virtual... 

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Fri, Sep 17 2010
AutoWeek Announces Virtual Green Car Show

AutoWeek Announces Virtual Green Car Show

Press Release: Inaugural Virtual Car Show Features Latest Green Car Technologies DETROIT, MI and SAN FRANCISCO, CA– AutoWeek is hosting its first virtual auto show, the AutoWeek Virtual Green... 

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Fri, Sep 17 2010
Shaker to Offer New Online Virtual Recruiting Resource

Shaker to Offer New Online Virtual Recruiting Resource

Press release Shaker Recruitment Advertising & Communications has strategically partnered with InXpo to provide companies with innovative opportunities to attract talent by hosting their own Virtual... 

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Wed, Sep 15 2010
InWorldz rocks the growth charts

InWorldz rocks the growth charts

We don’t normally cover the InWorldz grid — the owners have told us that they don’t consider to be an OpenSim grid — but we have to make an exception this month because of the grid’s... 

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Wed, Sep 15 2010
ProtonMedia Releases ProtoSphere 1.5

ProtonMedia Releases ProtoSphere 1.5

Press Release: ProtonMedia Releases ProtoSphere 1.5: First Portable 3-D World for Business Collaboration Now Companies Can Stop Meeting and Start Working with World’s First Portable App... 

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Mon, Sep 13 2010
Survey: Users prefer interactive Webcasts

Survey: Users prefer interactive Webcasts

Press Release: ON24 Survey Shows Dramatic Preference for Webcasts With Increased Interactivity and Social Networking Next-Generation Platform Enables Greater User Control, New Applications SAN FRANCISCO,... 

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Mon, Sep 13 2010
ProtoSphere to support Microsoft Lync Server 2010

ProtoSphere to support Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Press Release: Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Support to be Introduced in ProtonMedia’s ProtoSphere LANSDALE, Pa. — ProtonMedia today announced that its ProtoSphere virtual immersive environment... 

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Mon, Sep 13 2010
Unicruit hosts Big East Virtual Career Fair

Unicruit hosts Big East Virtual Career Fair

Press Release: Unicruit Partners with the Big East Virtual Career Fair, Combines Expertise to Deliver 3D Virtual Career Fair on November 10, 2010 Revolutionary approach to recruiting college students... 

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Sat, Sep 11 2010
What to wear to a virtual job interview

What to wear to a virtual job interview

I regularly hire people I’ve never met in real life. We cover international business, and we like having correspondents and editors around the world — and with today’s economy, we just... 

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Fri, Sep 10 2010
Sex world recruits Emerald team

Sex world recruits Emerald team

The adult-themed Utherverse virtual world platform is in discussions with former developers of the controversial Emerald Viewer for Second Life, the company announced. Prior to recent scandals involving... 

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Thu, Sep 9 2010
Virtual Events for Business: What are they and how are they different?

Virtual Events for Business: What are they and how are they different?

When you hear the words “Virtual Events” or “Immersive Environments,” what comes to mind?  Geordi from Star Trek? Perhaps a giant question mark since they sound so foreign? Many of us participate... 

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Thu, Sep 9 2010
SpotOn3D focuses on content protection

SpotOn3D focuses on content protection

Many virtual designers are wary of coming to OpenSim because of worries about content protections. One virtual worlds company is bending over backwards to alleviate these concerns and to create a safe... 

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Wed, Sep 8 2010
Virtual event best practices

Virtual event best practices

Webcasting is seen by many professionals as an ideal marketing and communications tool, offering the effectiveness and efficiency that enterprises require in today’s business environment. These... 

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Wed, Sep 8 2010
Daden holds chatbot seminar in U.K.

Daden holds chatbot seminar in U.K.

Press Release: Daden Announce Series of Emerging Technology Seminars Virtual world solution specialists Daden Limited announce the inaugural dates for a programme of half day seminars on emerging technologies.... 

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Tue, Sep 7 2010
Avoid disruptions with virtual events

Avoid disruptions with virtual events

The world is about to turn nasty. I don’t mean the world is about to turn nasty on you, personally, but its going to be a much harder world to do business in, as economic disruptions throughout... 

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Tue, Sep 7 2010
Unisfair hosts free virtual training event

Unisfair hosts free virtual training event

Press Release: Unisfair Hosts “The Virtual Classroom: Effective Training on a Virtual Platform” Showcase Event on Sept. 9 Experts from ASTD and The eLearning Guild Outline How to Effectively Train... 

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Sun, Sep 5 2010
How To Generate Virtual Event Registrations

How To Generate Virtual Event Registrations

International Freelancers Day is “the biggest ever (FREE) online conference exclusively for solo professionals.”  Want to know how to effectively generate virtual event registrations? Follow this... 

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Wed, Sep 1 2010
We all live in a virtual world

We all live in a virtual world

Mike Treder, the managing director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, recently asked a loaded question: If you could live in a world that was just the way you wanted it to be, with... 

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Wed, Sep 1 2010
Unisfair to launch virtual classroom

Unisfair to launch virtual classroom

Press Release: Unisfair launches virtual training environment Shown to reduce costs by up to 95% Companies like IBM, Intuit, Novartis and ACS Are Leveraging the Unisfair Virtual Classroom to Easily and... 

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Wed, Sep 1 2010
Free ‘Virtual Events For Dummies’ Now Available

Free ‘Virtual Events For Dummies’ Now Available

Press Release: ON24 Special Edition Features Real-World Examples and Best Practices SAN FRANCISCO, CA –  Demand for virtual events is growing so rapidly that everyone needs to know what virtual... 

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Wed, Sep 1 2010
Latest Teleplace release supports Sharepoint

Latest Teleplace release supports Sharepoint

Press Release: Teleplace Enterprise Fall ’10 Adds SharePoint Support, Enterprise-Class Enhancements Commercial, Government Customers Benefit From Enhanced Collaboration, Security, Scalability,... 

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Wed, Sep 1 2010
UMB buys virtual career fair firm for $3.1mil

UMB buys virtual career fair firm for $3.1mil

Press Release: UBM Studios Expands its Virtual Recruitment Fairs with the Acquisition of Astound LLC Adds Fortune 500 Clients to UBM Studios’ Customer Roster Chicago – Building on its track record... 

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