Archive for July, 2008
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
As I say so many times in Second Life I wear a mask but I dont hide behind it. I managed to teleport myself into Second Life from Real Life with a little help from Roo holding the teleportation device for me.
Here I am/(we are) on the court at Wimbledon
In the Sl version of the [...]
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
After months and months of rumour about Google creating a virtual world Lively.com has sprung up seemingly from nowhere, I caught wind of it via Al Kronos’ twitterings and went off to investigate.
It’s a cutesy looking ‘create your own room, invite your friends’ and embed on your website type world with a default [...]
Posted in Technology, Virtual worlds | 9 Comments »
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
You may have heard talk of this on his blog, our very own Zha Ewry appears in this video on the Linden Blog. (thanks John Sisk for tweeting this to me as I had quite a post Wimbledon backlog to wade through and twitter gets first look most of the time).
The video and article is [...]
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Wimbledon is like a very very long plane journey. We all tune into the event and our various roles and focus completely on them. Having added the extra extreme sport of standing in Second Life at the same place for 15 hours a day for 14 days (except middle sunday), and having spent many of [...]
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Not only has Roo been nominated in his own right in the same category we have eightbar for the computer weekly awards. Web2.0 and Business. So if you would like to vote its a few click away by july 31st.
inWeb 2.0 Blogs
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
I decided to look at some other webpages in the shared browser we have at Wimbledon. Of particular interest is the F1 british grand prix. Now having had some issues (still not resolved with over zealous copyright take downs of a youtube of the grounds that I posted thanks to IMG for trying to police [...]
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
I had an idea for a video presentation with something a bit different this year for the Second Life Wimbledon build in IBM 7. This is more of a rush of it, but features crazy talk and voices from Cepstral. Edited up with my newly purchased Premiere elements. I like to get the ideas out [...]
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
You may have noticed that Wimbledon this year was doing lots of interesting social media related things. Letting people join in with the Wimbledon experience wherever they are. One of the things that was going rather well was the facebook page. I mentioned it way back a week or so ago in this post. Well [...]
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Judge built a button, and placed it on IBM 7 at Wimbledon. He keeps telling people not to press it. (just saying)
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Last night as Andy Murray made his triumphant comeback in a massive 5 setter I was driving away from Wimbledon and on to Corby. I am presenting at the Learning Grid for the next 2 days and Helen from Hursley is coming up to do the other half of the gig here.
We are presenting to [...]
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