Second Life

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This has been a-mullin’ and a-musin’ around in what some laughably call my brain for a little while now.
My friend and colleague-in-arms Trevor Cook wrote an op-ed piece for the ABC’s [...]

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Greg Verdino, chief strategy officer at social media consulting agency Crayon, argues corporate brands should integrate social media and community capabilities rather than simply creating branded spaces. For instance, he pointed to successful interactive corporate applications by book publishers involving virtual author tours and readings with authors.

So says Enid Burns (Mr Burns’ sister?) over at [...]

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If, as a business communicator, you are irrelevant to your company then why should you get your salary? Say goodbye to your nice house, your nice car, your kids’ private educations, your wine cellar, your holidays on Hamilton Island.

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Courtesy of the ever-vigilant Stefan Didak:
"The Pentagon is running an artificial intelligence program to see how people will react to propaganda and to government-inflicted terror. The program is called Sentient World Simulation:
"U.S defense, intel and homeland security officials are constructing a parallel world, on a computer, which the agencies will use to test propaganda [...]

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Messenger Press, one of our local papers, interviewed me last week for a feature story on Second Life.
Since they don’t post their feature stories on their website, I took a scan of it.
UPDATE: After much playing around, I’ve got a FAR more sensible file-size pdf (510k), which prints out as 2xA4 pages. Page [...]

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From my Second Life blog
“There’s no dark side of the moon; it’s all dark”Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
Says HitSearch in a media release:
eitarosoft, inc. today announced that they have successfully developed a 3D virtual world service on Google’s platform “Android”.
The conventional 3D virtual world service required the use of a very high-specific [...]

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Mark Jones has posted the fascinating four-way discussion he, Trevor Cook, Brian Prentice (research VP of emerging trends, Gartner) and myself enjoyed the other week.
We have a lot of sympathy for corporate Australia — the potential legal threat of employee-generated content is real in some instances — but as Brian in particular kept pointing [...]

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