Lee’s Second Life - “Finding the key”

Gary Hayes suggests that it is the bricolage nature of today’s ‘amateur’ digital creatives that threatens to undermine and overthrow the ‘professional’ creative from their throne (and job).

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed (you can even subscribe via email!). Thanks for visiting!John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, avatared into a press conference today in SL.
Dressed in his business suit, Chambers poo-pooed ideas circulating in the mainstream press that SL and other virtual worlds are facing [...]

Before I launch her into Second Life on a full-time basis (courtesy of the MyCyberTwin object), feel free to ask Penny some questions here.
 

Courtesy of Greg Verdino of crayon comes news of a white paper (pdf) from Elastic Collision, a virtual worlds agency, on building business equity in Second Life.

According to the stats recently released, Australia ranks in the Top 5 of SL users compared to their nation’s actual population, higher than the US.

- The Netherlands 0.10% - Denmark 0.08% - Portugal 0.07% - Australia 0.07% - United Kingdom 0.06%
Hat tip to Wagner James Au
Also of interest is the latest sign-up stats from Second [...]

Not to be outdone by the well-reported substantial investment by IBM in Second Life (to the tune of circa US$100m), some highly-placed spies of mine in Microsoft have whispered in my ear that BillG will shortly be announcing something special.
Good manners precludes me from spilling the exact flavour of the beans, but let us [...]

From Multilingual-Search.com:
Portugal?s Department of Justice launches arbitration centre in Second Life
It?s called e-Justice Centre and it represents a joint project of the Justice Department and Aveiro?s University, which already has a strong presence in Second Life.
The Justice Department?s press release explains that the centre aims to be a place where Second Life residents can [...]

Gary Hayes (Gary Hazlitt in SL) copped some flack a while back for proclaiming BigPond and ABC islands to be ‘big’ players in the SL ecosphere. For those who don’t know, Gary’s TheProjectFactory built both ABC Island and the Pond series of islands.
Now here’s the proof: according to Tateru Nino and as reported by Wagner James [...]

I am proud to announce that as of today the Comms Cafe office in Second Life is now graced with the presence of two fantastic new staff.
Isabella Scheflo, a colleague here in Adelaide, and Penny Cazelet, based in Melbourne and who I’ve actually never met, have both agreed to be ‘receptionists’ and ‘meeters and greeters’ [...]

“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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