“We get so used to disguising ourselves to others that we end up becoming disguised to ourselves”

I believe that many people are still looking at metaverses and not considering the wide spectrum of modes that the subject covers. Some of the potential reasons given for fear or suspicion are directed at the wrong end of the spectrum and hide the other deeper benefits that may be more comfortable for those people [...]

The more we see virtual worlds appear in mainstream commentary the more we realize how deeply they are seeping into society. Reporting on congressional hearings shows some degree of questioning and depth in the news not just sensationalism and fear. That could be some high-brow way of saying they were making fun of “us” and [...]

The Virtual Worlds 2008 conference here in New York was significantly bigger in exhibitors and attendees from last years one at the same time of year. Last year theer were 2 small office rooms with about 10 exhibitors including IBM. This year the trade floor was somewhat bigger. This is a quick wander around just [...]

Today started with a keynote from Reuben Steiger from Millions of Us. There was an important message in it that I felt worth iterating in a single post rather than a mass roundup. That is one of not fixating on the difficulties, not to obsess about the tools in virtual worlds, but to think about [...]

As much of the press is out there now the VW 2008 announcement of Linden Labs and IBM working together to get an intranet portion of the Second Life grid running on our own blade servers and installed behind the firewall.
There is a lot to this and one key thing is that it is not [...]

Well this is not quite a neon light for eightbar on tour, more pipecleaners, but we make do.

Some of the eightbar crew, name Roo and I are on tour to the east coast of the US.
Monday is a mass summit of IBMers upstate New York.
Tues, Weds is an in depth gathering of the CIO Innovate [...]

Well it is all over the blogs, so it has to be here too but Philip Rosedale is stepping down as Linden’s CEO to become Chairman of the Board. I got to hear this on twitter first and it seemed worth a bit of perspective from where I am sitting as we have been part [...]

As a follow up to yesterdays post members of the “Sport Relief Fund Raisers” have now received a pair of springy shoes ready for the racing fund raisers. As you can see they go well with any avatar though not my usual choice of footwear.

Whilst the sim can be opened up for members of the [...]

The excellent chairity Sport Relief is holding a charity event 14-16th March in Second Life. There are various press releases flying around but as this is for a good cause then a little bit of viral marketing does not go a miss. The sim’s themselves are not yet public but the avatar based racing looks [...]