After all the intial work at Wimbledon on sports events in virtual worlds I was often asked about the London 2012 Olympics and what it migh mean for them. I wrote a document with some ideas, almost a little dated now but it was November 2006. After a recent event explaining all things metaverse I [...]

Some fantastic news is zooming around the internet right now. A former IBM Vice President and now MIT visiting professor Dr Irving Wladawsky-Berger is now on President Elect Obama’s Technology and Innovation Panel. This is significant because Irving is a great visionary and for us here at eightbar has been a very key supporter from [...]

I realized stickers could be put on Sackboy, and that using the camera you could make sticker. Hence. Here is a little epredator, also wearing an 8 for eightbar. That is just a bit of avatar customization but immensly powerful. I am sure we shall see some amazing decorated sackboys. Little Big Planet on PS3 [...]

Yesterday I “jetted” off to Manchester to speak at an event sponsored by the MIDAS group. I was up to speak about the future, about virtual worlds, about 3d printing. I also decided to make sure I adjusted a little to speak more about the power we all have as people. Inspired by hearing and [...]

It is official Google have decided to close Lively at the end of the year. This will no doubt create a great deal of discussion about the future of the virtual world industry, maybe give some nay sayers some ammunition to be negative. I do feel somewhat sad for those people that were the allowed [...]

AM Radio is a fantastic artist and designer and fellow eightbar in Second Life. I was sitting with twitter zooming past and Malburns twittered Hamlet’s article on New World Notes saying AM Radio had a new build, so I popped along and was once again amazed at the intricate detail that AM puts into things. [...]

I have just spent 2 days fully immersed in the chain reaction event in London. At this very vibrant event I was expecting to spend most of my time explaining to people how we use the web and virtual worlds to communicate, to get things done, to power change in business. I certainly did get [...]

It’s time to go and inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs at a 2 day event in London called Chain Reaction. “Chain Reaction is a unique and challenging project based on a very simple idea – that none of us on our own can change the world, not governments, not businesses, not charities. We succeed [...]

This started life as an internal IBM post, to my tribe there, however, I liked it so much I wanted to share it more widely, just changed a few words. As I have mentioned before I am so pleased that Seth Godin’s tribes book is as good as it is. Seth states these 5 things [...]

As you know we don’t usually do press releases or “official” stuff here on eightbar, but the very recent words from Sam Palmisano around the drive for a Smart Planet do fit in rather well with what we have been doing over the past years. Firstly Smart Planet is not directly named after our very [...]