Lee’s Second Life - “Finding the key”

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed (you can even subscribe via email!). Thanks for visiting!Pizza in Second LifeAccording to Reuters “Infoweek reports that Domino’s Pizza, which already takes one in six orders online, will soon be accepting real-life pizza orders from within Second Life.
Domino’s IT director Jane [...]

Amsterdam sold for US$50,000The Amsterdam sims, a popular Second Life destination with canals, houseboats, and a sexually explicit red light district, sold on eBay for US$50,000 on Monday, one of the largest sales of a Second Life business by a private developer.
Cool!
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From the well-connected Paull Young comes word of this fantastic post from uber Second Lifer Gary Hazlett:
The Brand Owners Guide to Joining the Metaverse
Brilliant points, brilliantly made.

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“Five years from now a social networking site without a 3D universe will look like a dinosaur.”
So said Mark Kern, president of Red 5 Studios at the Game Developer’s Conference, San Francisco recently.

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The national Australian broadcaster, ABC, tonight broadcast an edition of its flagship ‘4Corners‘ current affairs program dedicated to Second Life.
To be honest, there wasn’t much in there that would be new to anyone who has spent a bit of time in Second Life, but for one of my clients (who I knew would be watching [...]

Virtual Insanity: Why replicating real-life business practices in a virtual world is doomed to failure.
The virtual 3D web has received significant amounts of coverage in the mainstream media recently (Carr, 2007; Morrissey, 2006; Steins, 2007; inter alia.)
Some businesses have already started to experiment with virtual 3D environments, such as Australia’s national broadcaster the ABC, IBM, [...]

Ben Hamilton rang me the other day, after having listened to a talk-back show about online dating (well, sometimes you listen to anything to relieve the monotony of long-distance driving from one client to the next).
As Ben said, in the virtual world there are no ‘hairs in the sink’ moments — you can build up [...]

The Second Life Community Convention is holding its third Annual International Convention in sunny downtown Chicago, August 24-26.
The ‘Business Track’ is now calling for papers to present at the Conference.
Consider me a submittee — all I need to organise now is sponsorship of my flight and accommodation…

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One would think, of course, that anyone embarking on doctoral research would know what their research question is.
That’s the thing… the field is so new that I am still debating whether to research just Second Life or widen my scope to include Virtual 3D Environments in general. The risk with just focusing on SL is [...]