July 2008
July 30, 2008
Four weeks away from the Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo in LA. (We’re going to be there for the week, so if you want to meet up ping us.) The second annual Virtual Worlds Expo takes place September 3-4, 2008, at The Los Angeles Convention Center. Virtual Worlds Expo - www.VirtualWorldsExpo.com - is the premier event for businesses […]
Posted in Conferences, Featured by Sven
July 25, 2008
Private beta invites have been suspended two weeks ago as we’re working on the new Myrl release. We will start inviting again as soon as the new release is live. We’re working hard to make this happen by next week, so for now we can only thank you for your patience and work harder. We’ll […]
Posted in private beta, Myrl by Sven
July 21, 2008
We’ve been interviewed for Events Review/Meeting Review about virtual worlds, Top Story of the Day… But what I’m really loving is the pic caption: “Life changing: D’Orazio’s virtual avatar… and friend” LOL. Apart from this, on both magazines there’s an interesting debate going on about virtual worlds, events and marketing, check it out
Posted in press, Myrl by Sven
July 21, 2008
Online the new issue of 2L Italia magazine with many interesting articles and a nice feature for Myrl. Download the new issue here (unfortunately it’s only for italioids, sorry!) http://www.2litaliaworld.it/?p=119
Posted in press, Italy, Myrl by Sven
July 19, 2008
This is a mission for virtual explorers: start a journey across worlds to discover the huge vastity of the Metaverse. This is the first of a series of missions with the goal of mapping the new virtual geography. Content Creation Worlds will guide you through some of the platforms that allow users to create content […]
Posted in Expeditions, crossworlds, worldshopping, Myrl, Featured by Sven
July 18, 2008
New version of the universe graph by Nic Mitham, segmented by sector and genre: Socialising, Casual Gaming, Mirror Worlds, Roleplay, Toys, Education, Fashion, Music, Content creation, Tv/films/books, Sport, Misc.While most of the sectors seems to be quite crowded, interestingly enough the only apparently untapped is the Music sector. That’s probably due to the fact that music […]
Posted in research, crossworlds, mapping, Featured by Sven
July 17, 2008
Nice coverage for Myrl in the latest issue of Converging Media. The article is about the growing integration between virtual worlds and the web.. here’s an excerpt: ”Paul Jackson, an analyst at Forrester, warns that interest in virtual worlds has waned since Second Life consistently made the headlines last year and says that it’s “time to move to version 2.0,” where […]
Posted in web3D, outeroperability, press, web2.0, Myrl by Sven
July 8, 2008
After reporting previously (5th of June) about an avatar border crossing between SL and OpenSim, it’s in the news again today that IBM and Linden Lab have been working together on this new interoperability milestone. While this is great news and we all look forward to hear more about this, I think the most interesting part of […]
Posted in second life, opensim, crossworlds, interoperability, avportability by Sven
July 7, 2008
Apply Virtual Worlds & MMOs is a 1-day conference building on the successful adoption of virtual worlds across games, entertainment and corporate communications. The conference is part of the broader Visual Web Convention going on in London on the 9th and 10th of July at RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London. New platform for the Web? Life-style games? […]
Posted in Conferences, Featured by Sven
July 6, 2008
Annie Ok from Metaverse Meetup has just started a collaborative timeline of virtual worlds on Dipity, a tool to make and share interactive timelines. It’s open for anyone to edit and easy to embed. Feel free to add your 2 cents!
Posted in research, mapping by Sven