In all the various birthdays, travelling and conferencings I realized I had not written anything here on eightbar to point those of you who dont know about it yet to Christian and Sean’s virtual worlds outlook report. It is certainly a must read document (thats not just because I get a mention either!) You can [...]

This years west coast event has, as usual, been very full of lots of conversation with all sorts of people. The IBM stand seemed to be a constantly busy place, and my shifts on there certainly were productive in terms of explaining what we do in general and what I do with the CIO office. [...]

Earlier in the year in New York I took a dash around video of the expo floor. Now we are here in LA doing the next one I thought I would do the same thing to compare and contrast. 41+ exhibitors this time. Look out for some metarati faces you may know.

Me and IBM :-) Yes last night at the end of the first day of the virtual world expo I was asked up on stage after a very nice intro from Steve Prentice (whose speech featured the brilliant quote from Pirates of the Carribean that the pirates code is not so much of a rule [...]

We dont normally do press release coverage here on eightbar, but as this is part of what is being announced here at VW08 it seemed to make sense to cover it. IBM is integrating OpenSim and Sametime in a significantly deep way. There is more on that here, and a video below This fits nicely [...]

I took a little research trip, as I am over on the west coast, to the universal park. Much of what is going on at this virtual worlds expo is Hollywood based, so to see what sort of experiences people enjoy and how they are done in with the current state of the art seemed [...]