Archive for October, 2007

Kaneva takes the roof off

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

I have just popped back into kaneva, after seeing a twitter from Spin Martin. Up until now it has always looked like rooms, boxed in and a bit boxed in. Now though they have created outdoor spaces.
I did a quick youtube, it runs smoother than this video btw.

Total Immersion - Augmented Reality in action

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

As you know Augmented Reality is a bit of an interest and the blending of real and virtual as I put together with artag I just got sent the link to Total Immersion(thanks Tony), who have some great technology and ideas integrating real and virtual content. Go and see their video’s here, it shows [...]

In the presence of….

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

At the analysts conference here in Lisbon it turned out that Jeff Jonas, a bona fide internet celeb was also presenting a stack of 1:1 sessions. I had not read name tags but he was hanging with monkchips.
Now I often talk about the clever its of entity analytics, in particular the fact that the fact [...]

Analysts Insights 07 - More metaversal evangelizing

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Analysts Insights 07 - Lisbon, some interesting loops occuring

VWF Europe 07 - Vibe

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Whilst we gather our thoughts and the various bloggers and twitterers catch their breath I thought I would post this completely amateur camera walk about featuring the venue of the VWFE 07. You can play spot the metarati. I was not going for anything in particular and I only had a few moments to walk [...]

VWF pre-conference workshop

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Both Ian and I are (for once) in the same place for much of this week at the Virtual Worlds Forum conference. I’m actually speaking at the ‘harnessing enterprise virtual worlds‘ pre-event workshop today, as part of the following lineup:

Steve Prentice (Gartner) - What are enterprise virtual worlds?
Ron Edwards (Ambient Performance) - Harnessing [...]

VW Forum Europe 2007 - Its very very soon

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Now that the jet lag of San Jose is passing it is time to tell you all about the next conference coming up next week. The VW Forum Europe 2007 is taking place in London Tuesday 23rd-Friday 26th

IBM is a founding sponsor along with Rivers Run Red and There.com
Yes we will be there a [...]

San Jose VW 2007 Conference Roundup

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Conference Roundup

IBM, Virtual Worlds and Standards - a roundup

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Although I’m missing the conference in San Jose this week, I am watching the breaking news from the event with rabid interest. First, we have the news itself. There was the official IBM release of course, and it hit the official Linden Lab blog too.

“Linden Lab and IBM will collaborate on integrating virtual worlds and [...]

The Unofficial Tourists’ Guide to Second Life - factcheck

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

My friend Nick was kind enough to lend me his copy of ‘The Unofficial Tourists’ Guide to Second Life‘ by Paul Carr and Graham Pond, and couldn’t help point out a few interesting inaccuracies as he did so.  Here is my open letter to the authors, in order to correct some minor problems…
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