London, Tuesday 23rd to Friday 26th October. 3pointD already has the press release, so I won’t bother reproducing the speaker list or even the programme; you can just as easily get them from the conference website. The speaker list is a star-studded list of dozens of thought virtual world thought leaders. Ren Reynolds (no relation) will be [...]

Back in May I shared the presentation I gave at the Eduserv Foundation Symposium. It was an interesting conference, bringing academics and policy makers together to discuss the opportunities of virtual worlds. Very interesting for me, as it was the first time I’d spent much time seriously getting to grips with what education in virtual worlds might mean [...]

Ian Hughes, Mark Alexander and I are joining Andy Burns and the rest of the IBM team at Wimbledon today, helping out at two mini press conferences. Excitingly, they’re taking place in… Wimbledon itself (in the physical realm of London’s SW19), a conference call, Streaming video (on ustream), Second Life (at the IBM 7 sim), [...]

As Ian recently posted, we attended the book launch party on Tuesday for Tim Guest’s new book, Second Lives. It was interesting and fitting that there was another book launch party tonight, and this one was in Second Life. This one was held at the Elysian Isle sim in Second Life. At this one, unlike [...]

I spoke at the Blogs and Social Media Forum yesterday. The agenda had me slated to join Ben Edwards (publisher of Economist.com), Jem Stone (Executive Producer, BBC New Media and Technology), Adriana Lukas (Big Blog Company) and Myles Runham (General Manager, Europe, Ask.com) for the keynote panel. Euan Semple, who chaired the event, kicked off the day [...]

I presented at the Eduserv Foundation Symposium yesterday. I wrote up my brief notes from the event, and there has already been an impressive amount of blogging about the conference. If you missed the live stream on the day, I believe all the videos will be made available by Eduserv soon. For now, here is my [...]

Market Truths Ltd released the third of their reports on Second Life this month, entitled Real Life Brands in Second Life (Q1 2007). The study will be interesting to anyone weighing up what effect Second Life can have on a brand. Some might argue that the sample size could have done with being a little larger, but even [...]

If you’re anything like me, tables of numbers are hard to grasp. If a picture is woth a thousand words, it’s probably worth a million spreadsheets. (I’ve always thought the only good spreadsheet is one with a graph on every page.) I was therefore delighted when, following the release of some detailed Second Life stats [...]

I had a chance today to try the Second Life voice beta. The demo requires a separate download, and only certain sims on the beta test grid are currently voice-enabled. I know that Spaceport Alpha and NMC and enabled. Apparently Abbotts, Lusk and Pulveria, are also voice-ready too. I’m sure the list will grow quickly. When you [...]

Second Life recently closed the new registration signup process. Sorry, we’re currently jam-packed To ensure the best possible experience for all of our Residents, we are temporarily limiting new account registrations. There’s been a huge influx of new Residents into Second Life and we are working hard to keep up with the demand. Please check [...]