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Vote for Eightbar on the computer weekly blog awards?

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.

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Had our face(book) smashed in

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 [...]

A slight change from Wimbledon SW19 - Learning Grid

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 [...]

Wimbledon the final week get your widgets here.

Monday, June 30th, 2008

This year more than ever before the Wimbledon web experience is much more what us Web 2.0 geekanisters would like to see. Letting people experience Wimbledon wherever they happen to be. I am not just talking about the Second Life presence
This widget is another prime example, able to be embedded and posted all over [...]

Interesting movements related to the Virtual World industry

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

It is fair to call this an industry or a business now I think. Still a fledgling one but definitely shaping into an industry. One of the ways you I think you can tell is that stories are not just about what has been done with a technology, but start to get stories and general [...]

Jump Around, Jump Around get up get up and get down - Interoperability

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

As has been blogged and reported and twittered there was a little experiment that had some success yesterday involving common login’s from Second Life and OpenSim. A form of avatar interoperability, albeit across very similar platforms.
One of the best places to read this is here at Zha Ewry’s blog as he’s running the IBM side [...]

BBC Radio 1 augmenting reality with a ‘band in your hand’

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Remember two years ago, when BBC Radio 1 came to Second Life for One Big Weekend? This year they explored augmented reality with a Band In Your Hand. Here’s Scott Mills showing Chappers how it works.

Unfortunately the (Windows-only) download has already been taken down. Why? Because…
Due to music rights restrictions this download was only available [...]

‘Evolution of Games and Social Networks’ panel at VW08 - call for questions

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

I’ll be moderating a panel at Virtual Worlds 2008 on Friday, entitled ‘The Evolution of Games and Social Networks’. To give you an idea of what we’ll be talking about, the abstract for the panel describes it thus:
“With the planned introduction of Sony’s Home for the PlayStation3 and multiple virtual worlds providers now creating widgets [...]

IBM Virtual Worlds 1Q 2008 roundup

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

A brief summary of what’s been happening with IBM in virtual worlds in the first quarter of this year. It’s an impressive list.
Mike Rhodin, General Manager of IBM Lotus software, recently made five predictions about the future of collaborative working. They included open standards, increase in IM and other real-time tools. The number one prediction [...]

IBM at the NRF

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Does your avatar know how to make actual money? Bernadette Duponchel’s does. She was recently at the National Retail Federation conference with the rest of her team, presenting IBM’s take on virtual worlds for the fashion design industry.

This is the second consecutive year IBM has demonstrated the use of virtual worlds at the NRF. The [...]