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August 12, 2008
004: The Devil’s Advocate
AJ Tan is a Cornell student who has been working for Metanomics over the summer. Turns out, Second Life wasn’t entirely up to his expectations. I think his expectations are probably pretty standard for college students, so while SL works for me on a…
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0 CommentsAugust 10, 2008
Avatars should come out of the closet
Lots of people think about a better user interface (UI) for Second Life these days. There are the folks at Linden Lab, who are preparing, as CEO Mark Kingdon explained, an expandable interface, which grows with the experience of the user. There…
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August 09, 2008
Linden Lab Appoints New Head of Global Technology
Mark Kingdon announced the appointment of Frank Ambrose as Head of Global Technology, according to Bloomberg Technology. “To develop computer systems, Linden named Frank Ambrose as senior vice president of global technology. Ambrose was previously head of technology for infrastructure and network services…
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August 07, 2008
002: Get a Life!
Blizzard Exec #1: Whoever this player is, he has played World of Warcraft so much that he has reached a level we had thought unreachable.
Blizzard Exec #2: What kind of person would do this?
Blizzard Exec #1: Only one kind…Whoever…
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August 06, 2008
Vivaty Releases Platform to Developers
Vivaty, Inc., a creator of 3D embeddable worlds, most notably on Facebook and Aim currently, has just released its developers platform called: “Vivaty Create”. This is a wonderful opportunity to try building objects from any 3D program (like Max, Maya, Softimage or Poser) and creating…
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August 05, 2008
Transcript of Benjamin Duranske’s Connecting the Dots on Legal Issues and The Grid
I originally presented this at Metanomics, Aug. 4, 2008 as “Connecting the Dots” after the show featuring IBM’s Zha Ewry and Linden Lab’s Zero Linden. The biggest legal impact of “the grid“ is that local laws will govern. Want to run a casino? Drop…
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