Archive for May, 2007

What’s news today: 31/5/07

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Business students at Iowa State University can experience performing US$2 million worth of daily transactions. Brian Mennecke, an ISU associate professor and dean’s faculty fellow in management information systems, uses Second Life to [...]

Branding in SL

The unbelievably talented Gary Hayes has provided the update on brands within Second Life — seems that Bigpond is still number 1.

Technorati : bigpond, brand, branding, gary hayes, projectfactory

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Today’s Second Life news

And hot off the press today:
The Money Programme will be the first [Ed: are you sure?] BBC Television programme broadcast in virtual online world Second Life. Reporter Max Flint and his spiky-haired alter-ego, MP Masala, travel deep into cyberspace to meet its virtual entrepreneurs, and find out how real fortunes are made. The programme will [...]

Today’s tidbits

Today’s Second Life news:

A building boom is under way in Wellington as 60 architects from around the world vie to build their dream house, but this time Reserve Bank governor Allan Bollard need not fear.
There’s money to be made in Second Life’s online reality, where everyone is a size 2. Second Life, the online virtual [...]

Marge gives me a mish-mash of useful tools

The wonderful and wondrous Madge Hoekstra in Denmark constantly surprises me with little tidbits about SL tools and tips that fly under my radar. I am eternally in her debt!
Here’s some of her best:

SL-focused blogs (apart from the ones in my sidebar): Ross Dawson, Dedric Mauriac (the creator of some truly wonderful SL tools), David [...]

Finding the key: unlocking the door that bars SMEs from entering virtual worlds

And now, time to talk about Second Life, because you can’t get enough of a good thing, can you?
One of the key theorists underpinning my research is the late great Henri Lefebvre. Henri was a French sociologist and philosopher who understood that ’spaces’ were not holes in buildings, but actually built environments in their own [...]

Autoresponders - Part 2

…following on from my previous post about autoresponder blues…
Okay, so I have figured out what went wrong {smile}.
It was all my fault (it always is, ask Mrs BetterComms!) — I needed to configure the ‘form parsing’ jiggery-pokery bits to have the data that was sent from the forms ‘land’ and ‘populate’ the databases correctly.
That has now [...]