Archive for September, 2006

Google Sketchup -> Second Life export

Friday, September 29th, 2006

Roo

New Media Knowledge - “My So-called 2nd Life” conference

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Roo will be speaking at the NMK “My So-called 2nd Life” conference, 24th October

Web page as a texture in Second Life

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Jeff Barr has written about a cool service he has created to get a web page image on a prim whilst we wait for the full ubrowser functionality.

Hursleywood

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

It’s all getting a little Hollywood around here.
As Ian wrote, he appeared on The Register yesterday. On the same day, Andy Stanford-Clark (who is no stranger to the small screen) also made a full page spread in The Telegraph, talking about IBM’s Innovation Jam. I also happen to know there are [...]

Our private island is a little less secret now

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

The past few days we have been showing our position on all things metaverse and Second Life with some very interesting and interested writers, journalists and analysts

Happy Birthday eightbar

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

The Eightbar blog is 1 year old today

Touring the Metaverse

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

Last week, one of our colleagues sent me a Sametime asking if I would have time to help him get the hang of Second Life, since I’d been foolish enough to blog about the topic. We set up a slot yesterday to meet online and talk through how it all works.
We started off on Hursley Island and [...]

Analyst Briefing

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Having just got back from New York I came in to Hursley this morning wondering why everyone was looking a little smarter than usual. It turned out we were meant to wear “business casual” (whatever that may be) for an analyst briefing. Analyst briefing? Hmmm, that rings a bell…

Rod Smith did [...]

An amazing show, the Alliance Navy and an IBM 3D Jam

Monday, September 18th, 2006

We had a 3d Jam to go with our wider innovation jam. using the growing group of IBMers and some of of extended contacts. In particular the Alliance Navy

Amazon’s Jeff Barr comes to Hursley

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

Jeff Barr is Amazon’s Web Services Evangelist, and all round good guy. Just last week, Ian wrote about a presentation Jeff recently gave in Second Life. We were lucky enough to secure some time in Hursley with the man himself this week, where Andy and I were delighted to be able to get to know [...]