DipityYou’ll find my postings on Wordpress, Blogger (German blog) and Friendfeed now. Thanks to Hao Chen I was able to import all my Tumblr posts into Wordpress. He actually wrote a tumblr-to-wordp...
Windfairy posted a photo: “Advanced Social Networks” - I don’t think so. Nobody there, worse graphics than 10 years ago, bad user interface (you have to edit the room in 2D).…
Windfairy posted a photo: “Advanced Social Networks” - I don’t think so. Nobody there, worse graphics than 10 years ago, bad user interface (this is the editor)www.gogofrog.com
Windfairy posted a photo: This is the worst room-based “build your 3D webfront” solution I have seen so far. (It’s free though - but so are almost all the others). You see here t...
managerSeminare hat heute einen Artikel veröffentlicht über die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten für Unternehmen, virtuelle Welten für Themen wie Weiterbildung, Teambuilding und internationale…
Interesting (while promotional) video about the impact of Crowdsourcing on product development and change of whole markets. The author of the book he’s promoting with this trailer like...
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research recently conducted one of the first statistically significant, longitudinal studies on the usage of social media in corporat...
Interesting experiment by Kzero: they entered the term “Virtual Worlds” in Google new geographical trend tool and posted the resulting maps from 2005 through 2008. I think Asia might b...
“Teens and tweens are making more and more of the purchase decisions, or at least influencing that decision. Mom already knows that Sears provides trusted value and quality, but we need to pr...
Teens and tweens are making more and more of the purchase decisions, or at least influencing that decision. Mom already knows that Sears provides trusted value and quality, but we need to prove to ...
SLim will be an IM client with voice (like Skype) for computers that are prevented from accessing Second Life, either by old hardware or IT departments and firewalls. This could help the Second L...
Conformity (group pressure leads to actions against rational judgement) can do pretty spooky stuff, and if you think that today is any different than the fifties: find an elevator which has t...
Article (old but still interesting) on KurzweilAI.net: Artificial Intelligence Meets the Metaverse: Teachable AI Agents Living in Virtual Worlds by Ben Goertzel, Oct. 2007. I would like to know wh...
90 Per Cent of Corporate Virtual World Projects Fail Within 18 Months Steve Prentice, Gartner Consulting, at Gartner Emerging Trends Symposium/ITxpo May 2008 in Barcelona Well if you don’t wa...
Pretty avatars in pink…”Think of it as training wheels for girls who will one day grow up to be long-legged blondes in Second Life. (…)”
Was die Kommunikation in virtuellen 3D-Welten angeht, vor allem in der Zusammenarbeit mit anderen, ist die fehlende gewohnte nonverbale Komunikation immer noch ein großes Manko. In Second Life gab ...
Opening July 28th a private island at this location, including virtual exhibitions and a free studio for artists. The Goethe-Institut global network is visualised in the form of a three-dimensiona...
Nintendo Manager Reggie Fils-Aime, (l) President Nintendo America Inc. und VP Cammie Dunaway (r) demonstrierten auf der E3 das Gemeinschaftserlebnis der Wii-Spielkonsole (Bild: Standard.at)…
Myrl - connecting 13 more virtual worlds including lively, imvu, vMTV and Twinity within the next days. Myrl is a social network for the Metaverse, a cross-worlds platform aiming at bringing virtua...
Image via Modern Life is Rubbish. Edge’s recommendation of a really great scifi story by science historian George Dyson, brother of techbiz genius Esther Dyson. Greetings from Douglas Adams,...
Virtual Worlds at a glance - nicely segmented by sector, genre, age. Optimized version with recent updates (Lively etc.) of Kzero’s Universe graph. Thanks again, Nic Mitham! Virtual Pursuits ...
Spore on the iPhone! Spore Origins will come out in the iPhone’s App Store on September 7th, the same day as the full game arrives for Mac and PC. Too bad that every species you create belong...
Really » Blog Archive » I’m in ur browser, chatting in 3D Nice blog post about all the buzz (quoting Rosedale, Linden Labs founder) and I couldn’t agree more. It’s about faci...
The 3D Internet will change how we live. Real life will never be the same. Wall Street Journal, July 17 Like I predicted a week ago (yeah I know, that’s lame :-)), the serious papers are pick...
“The 3D Internet will change how we live. Real life will never be the same.” — Wall Street Journal, July 17 Like I predicted a week ago (yeah I know, that’s lame :-)), the s...
In early closed beta: Just Leap In - 3D worlds on the web (Mac/PC) (Video by: olympiodorus) It’s still very early - one week old, no customizable avatars, no multi-user fuctionality yet, but ...
In early closed beta: Just Leap In - 3D worlds on the web (Mac and PC). Video by: olympiodorus It’s still very early - one week old, no customizable avatars, no multi-user fuctionality yet, b...
The next time someone tells you to settle down and pick just one thing for your career (…) I recommend you reply as follows: “I appreciate your concern, but since I don’t share your dream of ...
“The next time someone tells you to settle down and pick just one thing for your career (…) I recommend you reply as follows: “I appreciate your concern, but since I don’t share your dr...
Interesting project: your participation will help them develop an effective personality quiz - one that helps people figure out what like-minded people are doing with their careers. Take the person...
Do people matter to your company’s products? Are you interested in new clients and reduced costs? If so, why aren’t you preparing your company for shared virtual environments / 3D Web /...
Stunningly realistic looking and moving avatars are coming to Cobalt, an emerging multi-institutional community software development effort to deploy an open source metaverse browser/toolkit ...
My very cartoonish avatar sitting in a kind of bare office (visit it here and move around the furniture if you care) - this is what Google’s new 3D chat environment called Lively looks like....
Platforms like Lively and Vivaty or technologies like Flash and Unity are all (just different) ways to create web based interfaces for the Metaverse Sebastian Küpers, The Impact of Lively and the r...
“Platforms like Lively and Vivaty or technologies like Flash and Unity are all (just different) ways to create web based interfaces for the Metaverse” — Sebastian Küpers, The Impa...
My prediction: Financial Times and Wall Street Journal will pick up on this, then German top managers and journalists will read it and after that we’ll see another wave of unreflected, but t...
— TechCrunch. Well that’s what I have been saying all along and I am glad we reached the next stage now. Can’t wait for the phase when we’re just getting down to business (...
TechCrunch. Well that’s what I have been saying all along and I am glad we reached the next stage now. Can’t wait for the phase when we’re just getting down to business (like, uh...
Lively - Google’s try at 3D web-embedded rooms. An that’s what we have been wiating for? For kids, and the Facebook integration is not as slick as Vivaty’s but well…it’...
Thoughtful article about behavioural addiction and the common mistaking the medium (Internet) for the message (addictive behaviour). “Do you crave the fun, excitement, and pleasure of virtu...
“You can easily get noticed in any community simply by participating. Yes, other factors do matter, but just by participating you’ll build an audience that “the popular kids” can’t get toR...
Nothing new, but a timeless compilation of important social studies, from the Halo Effect over the Standford Prison Experiment to Conformity. The blog author, a Psychologist from London, asks his ...
There’s life in the old dog yet. Social media and virtual worlds Second Life and Club Penguin are growing, and it’s official. Recently published data from Nielsen Online, reported on b...
Your life will be flashed before your eyes. Prototype contact lenses that include LEDs and circuits could become a tiny personal display. Think augmented reality, such as superimposing text message...
| View | Upload your own Web pages turned into a web of data and the future illustrated in the movie Minority Report is nearly there. This is an annotated slideshow of a presentation that Ma...
Video about Volkswagens’s vision of our mobile life in 2028. In essence: we don’t have cars anymore (at least we don’t own one…) we run around with a WLAN router in the m...
“Around the world, universities, and even the US Department of State, are turning to online virtual worlds to create cultural exchanges. In these immersive, 3-D environments, users from aroun...
Around the world, universities, and even the US Department of State, are turning to online virtual worlds to create cultural exchanges. In these immersive, 3-D environments, users from around the g...
I just received news from Twinity, the virtual world that builds real cities (along with real names and realtime weather/daytime, but I’ll talk about that later). The Twinity team promoted th...
realXtend Viewer and avatar generator for opensim getting better as we speak (except it’s still not available on Mac): read about the new features in UgoTrade’s blog
iPhone 3G What’s New - das Video in Bildern. Und hier das Promo-Video von Apple. Neben UMTS, GPS und Zugang zu speziellen iPhone-Programmen über iTunes kann man sich auch Microsoft Powerpoint and A...
I would like to give up Twitter very much (practically have). Maybe this list can actually help millions of depressed Twitter users (it was on and off again all week) to finally switch to FriendFee...
SWURL: lifestream service will create a centralized blog for you (and show a timeline like this)Finally - all in one place, full length, full size and formatted like a blog. Share your blog posts, ...
Eye Gaze Interaction with Second Life. Rapid Gaze Based Interaction Techniques with on-line virtual environments for motor-impaired users, using the contact-free Tobii device. It’s a great st...
“Eddie”, the robot AI showing social awereness in Second Life in March 2008 IEEE Spectrum writes about two different approaches to artificial intelligences that can respond intuitively...
The Genealogy of Influence is an interactive visualization of influence links between historic figures. The Freebase data has been added in 2007 and now includes >1000 people and >2100 connec...
The best answer to the question, “Will computers ever be as smart as humans?” is probably “Yes, but only briefly IEEE Spectrum: Signs of the Singularity
“The best answer to the question, “Will computers ever be as smart as humans?” is probably “Yes, but only briefly” — IEEE Spectrum: Signs of the Singularity
IEEE Spectrum has a fantastic special edition on the Singularity just released in June 2008. For all readers who are into deep future, Metaverse, Multiverse, AI and Augmented Reality. Excellent art...
Great article about lost SIM players, and other possible evils of SL. Second Life Herald: The Pandora’s Box of Second Life!
— Great article about lost SIM players, and other possible evils of SL. Second Life Herald: The Pandora’s Box of Second Life!
28.06.08: Handelskammer Hamburg präsentiert Hamburg Animation Award 2008 erstmals in der 3D-Welt Second Life; Vortrag und Live Chat mit Disney-Character Designer Stephen Silver08.07.08: Hamburg mee...
| View | Upload your own Real funny demo about LEGO (and why it’s so great) by Andrew “Roo” Reynolds, IBM’s UK-based Metaverse Evangelist and self-acclaimed geek. Sin...
Finally - new set of free default avatars available for Second Life Newcomers - see all pictures here: Default Avatar Designers - Second Life Wiki
Another try to rebuild the real world - in this case, cities like London - and populate them with real business people and consumers. Currently available for PCs only. Mac, Linux, Wii, Xbox360, PS...
Underwater Creature: Punk girl with my witty alien psychiatrist (based on Eliza chatbot) underwater on Derleth, Evita Park (my home in Second Life)
Nach Google Earth und Second Life surfen die KI-Forscher aus Saarbrücken jetzt mit dem Wii Board durch WoW (macht zwar keinen Sinn, ist aber lustig ;-). (Video: Hacked Nintendo Wii Board - Part II:...
Endlich nicht mehr “lol” tippen oder andere krude Tatstaturkürzel für unsere nonverbalen Reaktionen vor dem Bildschirm. Jetzt wird’s ernst: Mit dem Emotiv EPOC Headset (kabellos, ...
“We’re going to go as far as it lets us go. We honestly believe we’re forging the future here” — Zain Naboulsi (Microsoft Developer und Virtual World Evangelist), auf die Frage, w...
Komme jetzt endlich dazu, auf eine der schönsten Anwendungen von Papervision3D in Verbindung mit der Flickr API hinzuweisen. In Tag Galaxy gibt man ein Stichwort ein (der eigene Name ist natürlich...
Innovative Produktentwicklung bei Miele mit Computer Aided Virtual Environment (CAVE). Wenn virtuelle bzw. synthetische Welten mithilfe moderner Technik in die Realität transportiert werden, hilft ...
“In the near future, advertisers will go from valuing whether their messages show up in front of people to enticing some sort of engagement (…) You’ve got to create a two-way communicat...
In the near future, advertisers will go from valuing whether their messages show up in front of people to enticing some sort of engagement (…) You’ve got to create a two-way communication wit...
Alternativa3D 5.0 ab sofort zum kostenlosen Download bereit. Die 3D-Engine, die nichts weiter als Flash benötigt, um überzeugende 3D-Umgebungen über normale Brwoser zugänglich zu machen, bietet sei...
A documented journey through the current jungle of OpenSim based Grids (those are 3D online virtual worlds which can be accessed using a Second Life Viewer. The plan is an open grid where Avatars a...
Es wird langsam: Aktuelle deutsche Forschung surft schon mit dem Wii-Balanceboard durch virtuelle Welten, auch Second Life
Full house at Science Friday. Topic: Phoenix on Mars: From Windfairy Welles via http://blogHUD.com
Die “BILD” der virtuellen Welten endlich online als Blog.
My new virgin island: Almost untouched and south of Derleth (my home): New Region “Nea”. Come visit and help create something new! From Windfairy Welles via http://blogHUD.com
MTV: Personalized, speaking Avatars for your MySpace, Facebook or other Pfofile (and beware because you give MTV the right to do whatever they wnat with whatever you talk about)
Being Lara Croft for a couple of days: This is SL as I know it. I was working in-world when somebody put out a call for help in the Privateer Space Group (blogged about that funky place a while ago...
Recht und Unrecht in Virtuellen Welten: Juristische Fragen, Grundbegriffe, News
Sitting on a panther with a friend: Well actually I am sitting there with my friend Coz talking about the bot I am in the middle of configuring. It’s the very nice girl next to us. That’...
Tai Chi on Derleth: Doing Tai Chi on a tropical beach in front of a waterfall, listening to the sounds of birds and in the midst of wild animals…you’ve got to see this. Berward, you did...
Yet another “Show off your stuff in a fake virtual 3D room using a web browser”. ExitReality is a social media platform with an enhanced 3D, multi-user, immersive messaging environment....
meet people in your own 3D spaces with normal web browsers
Sehr schöner Blogbeitrag von Griff Constable (COO von The Electric Sheep Company) über die Nützlichkeit von 3D-Räumen in Web-Browsern (ich hatte dazu ja auch einen Beitrag verfasst). Er zeigt ein B...
Eigene Begriffe eingeben und gucken, wie viel über diese geschnattert wird…am meisten wird übrigens über Twitter selbst getwittert
Aus eSchool News (mit Beispielen): “Online gaming can help students develop many of the skills they’ll be required to use upon leaving school, such as critical thinking, problem solvin...
Mashups for the Masses - Intel® Mash MakerBesser als Yahoo Pipe vom ersten Eindruck her - kann jetzt jedermann/frau intelligente Widgets und ganze Webseiten aus verschiedensten Quellen zusammenstel...
Very nice handling of all your Friendfeed stuff in the sidebar (works well in Flock,too).
Alle, die sich bei Vollee.com als Beta-Tester eingetragen haben, erhielten heute eine E-Mail mit der Information, dass sie Instruktionen und Software für ihr Handy im Laufe der Monate Mai und Juni&...
…for Program Management, Virtual Operations Centers, Virtual Offices, Corporate Training, Facilitated Meetings. Your Avatar is a real blockhead (or a sphere), but the practicability is and ea...
“Wir sind, wenn man das Wachstum des WWW betrachtet, sicher, dass es viele Lektionen zu lernen gibt. Eine Lektion ist sicherlich, dass die virtuelle Industrie nur durch eine Öffnung und nicht...
Wir sind, wenn man das Wachstum des WWW betrachtet, sicher, dass es viele Lektionen zu lernen gibt. Eine Lektion ist sicherlich, dass die virtuelle Industrie nur durch eine Öffnung und nicht durch ...
Naja, besonders beeindruckend sehen die neuen Tageszeiten nicht aus, aber zusammen mit diesem Update, den bereits mehr als 40 Städten mit 3D-Häusern und der verbesserten Nutzung mit der Spacenaviga...
Virtuelle Welten einmal anders…die schönsten Schafe der Welt kann man mit einem Screensaver erzeugen. Der nutzt freie Prozessorkapazitäten zur Weiterentwicklung dieser wunderschönen Computerw...
“Second Life ist tot, leer, von gestern. So klingen die Abgesänge auf den Hype vergangenen Jahres, die derzeit allenthalben zu lesen sind. (…) Alles, was vor Monaten marktschreierisch a...
“US retail market for apparel is ~$300 billion - there’s good reason to believe that people’s strong drive to personalize and differentiate in the real world will proliferate online as well&#...
US retail market for apparel is ~$300 billion - there’s good reason to believe that people’s strong drive to personalize and differentiate in the real world will proliferate online as well Susan Wu...
help create artificial lifeforms on distributed render farms…
Weltweit finden es 500 Millionen Menschen ganz normal, sich online in Massive-Multiplayer-Spielen und 3D-Welten zu verabreden. Dabei stellen Frauen inzwischen die Hälfte der User aus Kuschelige, ge...
“Weltweit finden es 500 Millionen Menschen ganz normal, sich online in Massive-Multiplayer-Spielen und 3D-Welten zu verabreden. Dabei stellen Frauen inzwischen die Hälfte der User” &mda...
So sieht eine vernünftige Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstelle aus (leider noch nicht verfügbar; ich bleibe dran)
“the lines between virtual worlds, games, and social networking blur heavily…” — Virtual Worlds News: Virtual Worlds Management Report: 100+ Youth-Oriented Worlds Live or De...
Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World (Chris Frith). Wunderbar geschriebenes Buch für alle, die sich mit Hirnforschung und Psychologie beschäftigen. Kompakt und für dieses Them...
We’ve come out of the experimental phase of marketing in virtual worlds. Consequently, what we’re seeing as an agency for large brands is that they’re now committing non-experimental budgets. When ...
“We’ve come out of the experimental phase of marketing in virtual worlds. Consequently, what we’re seeing as an agency for large brands is that they’re now committing non-experimental budgets...
Entwickler von ChatBridge - SL-to-IM Gateway (Jabber, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo)
Artikel vom 03. April 2008 über den “Graphics Turing Test” und der These, dass Raytracing auf Supercomputern in ein paar Jahren die Unterscheidung zwischen realer und virtueller Welt u...
Einfach deine aktuelle Stimmung und Energielevel anklicken und los geht’s - Musicovery fängt an, dazu passende Musik zu spielen und zeigt gleichzeitig alle verfügbaren Infos zum Künstler s...
Artikel über die Konzeption von Lernpdaden und/oder Orientierungsinseln für Second Life und virtuelle 3D-Welten generell
Wie Friendfeed für Business/Airline/Finance/Commerce services, universelles Login (leider nur USA Services). “online account management, universal Login and webmail access”
Auszüge aus dem Bericht der Marktforschungsfirma Market Truths über “Psychographic Segments and Media Consumption” (Januar 2008). Interessant für alle, die Zielgruppen in Second Life er...
Make 3D von der Standford University macht aus normalen Fotos “begehbare” 3D-Szenen. Ergebnisse noch unzufriedenstellend und simpel
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