Archive for October, 2006

The Sony BMG media island, it is very good

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Whilst waiting for the Ben Fold’s event I toured the new Sony BMG sheep island

Ben Folds Album Launch in Second Life part 1

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Ok so I am a bit early, but its late here. So I thought I would pop along and make sure everything was rezzed in

Wired in SL, Yossarian in Wired

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Wired’s office in Second Life

Second Life tops 1 million

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Second Life reaches the magic million users.

Reuters brings news from inside Second Life

Monday, October 16th, 2006

As of today, ‘Adam Reuters’ (Adam Pasick) is Reuters embedded journalist in Second Life. Keeping regular office hours at the virtual Reuters building, Adam is their virtual bureau chief.

Reuters’ island, created by The Electric Sheep Company, is impressively realistic. Having been heavily influenced by their real-life presence in Times Square (NYC) and Canary [...]

The Long Tail and Second Life

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

Another Second Life personal appearance event. This time the Author of The Long Tail and chief editor of Wired Chris Anderson

Bloc party

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Last night I attended the GreaterIBM bloc party in Second Life that was mentioned a couple of days back. It was great fun - and testament to the hard work that the organisers put in to making it a success. Here are some pictures of what you may have missed.
The attendees begin to arrive at the [...]

Complex system modelling in Second Life

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Turner Boehm of eightbar has produced a self organizing, external data driven modelling visionary piece of work

Those custom Reeboks and the next party

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

I seem to have rediscovered the trainer, I had to have a pair of custom Second Life Reeboks

IBM Virtual Block Party

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Thanks to Peter Finn for pointing out this recent press release about the Greater IBM block party - an alumni event running tomorrow.
On Thursday, October 12, 2006, IBM is holding a first-of-its-kind Alumni block party in the virtual world of Second Life … The virtual block party is part of a larger IBM program [...]