October 2008
October 31, 2008
Myrl is setting out to add a bit of ‘joined up thinking’ to virtual worlds, building a ’social gateway’ that links competing worlds with the web, and with social networks. Read on at the “Guardian PDA Blog“
Posted in open beta, press, interviews, London, Myrl by Sven
October 17, 2008
We put together a panel about the 3D Web and the virtual worlds-web integration for the upcoming Virtual Worlds London conference, 20-21 Oct.
We will be joined by: Linden Lab, VastPark, Weblin, Kzero, Rivers Run Red.
Here’s how it reads at the moment:
“Virtual Worlds have not only generated a new communication environment, more notably they are […]
Posted in web3D, London, Myrl, Conferences by Sven
October 16, 2008
If you are in town, join us at the London Metaverse Meetup next Sunday at the Greyhound in Kensington. If you’re not around, join us at The Greyhound in Second Life London! Details, locations and RSVPs here
Posted in cross-world, London, Myrl, Meet up by Sven
October 16, 2008
London, October 17 2008 - Following the successful launch of the social gateway approach to managing activity across multiple virtual worlds, Myrl has announced today that they have started working on a cross-world gaming platform.
The number of social virtual worlds is growing rapidly and users of these worlds can enjoy today a wide range of immersive […]
Posted in cross-world, gaming, storytelling, open beta, arg, Myrl, press release, research, Featured by Sven
October 8, 2008
This is what happened hanging out at the Virtual Worlds Forum Unconference yesterday at the Hospital Club in London…
Virtual world avatars on one site
…the portal allows people to place their characters in one place, then receive live feeds from each of the ‘hangout’ locations.
They can also transport themselves from Myrl to the virtual […]
Posted in press, cross-world, interviews, London, Myrl, Conferences by Sven
October 4, 2008
The Volunteer Coordinator for Virtual Worlds London (20-21 October in London) is accepting applications for a limited number of hard-working, knowledgeable, enthusiastic people who are interested in serving as members of the support team. Volunteers gain full access to the conference including lunch and networking events when they are not working. The Volunteer Coordinator will […]
Posted in Conferences by Sven
October 4, 2008
As Kzero reports, we have just launched the Myrl Virtual Worlds Index, a new indicator of the relative popularity of the different virtual worlds, built on the first Myrl cross-world usage data collected in the last 10 days of September 2008. Kzero provides below a first analysis of the data and explains exactly what data […]
Posted in cross-world, Myrl Index, crossworlds, Myrl, Featured by Sven
October 2, 2008
A new long interview about Myrl has just been published on Hiperia3D, a great source of information about 3D online worlds, run by Jordi R. Cardona who also happens to be on Myrl
“For users, Myrl’s Social Gateway offers a way to keep track of their online activity in the different virtual worlds in […]
Posted in open beta, press, Myrl by Sven
October 2, 2008
Market researcher Parks Associates is providing all Virtual Worlds London (Oct 20-21, 2008) attendees a special analyst briefing on Virtual Worlds and Social Networks. Virtual worlds are popular among teens and pre-teens as a way of communications and entertainment. However, their usage among adults pales in comparison to social networks. This brief analyzes the reason […]
Posted in research, social networking, Conferences by Sven
October 1, 2008
A bunch of new interesting contents has been produced during the past year about interoperability. We thought it was a good idea to start wrapping it up here. Have we done any progress? What are the new developments and the new challenges? Looking forward to discuss one year of developments about interoperability at the next […]
Posted in web3D, outeroperability, opensim, interoperability by Sven