Events
04 / 27
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04 / 28
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
After her testimony to the US Congress, Susan Tenby, Senior Manager of the non-profit TechSoup was the object of the Daily Show's Jon Stewart, who said "Damn you Susan Tenby" because she took the SL name he wanted, Glitteractica Cookie. Hear Susan talk about TechSoup and the NonProfit Commons. We will be joined by American Cancer Society's Randal Moss, Director of the Future and Innovation Center, who will talk about the tremendous success Relay For Life has had in Second Life. Maybe I will wear a giant snail avatar! | ||
04 / 29
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05 / 3
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05 / 4
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05 / 5
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Monday, May 5 at 11 AM: | ||
05 / 6
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Tuesday, May 6, 3 PM SLT: | ||
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05 / 11
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05 / 12
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
On Monday, May 12 at 11 AM SLT, join Robert Bloomfield to discuss his past interview with Raven Pennyfeather, who quit her job as a mortgage compliance officer to create a very successful line of Goth and Victorian clothing in Second Life, and Nyla Cheeky, a real-life designer who is extending her brand by developing copies in Second Life. Jack Myers, a media analyst, weighs in on the challenges and opportunities of Raven and Nyla's efforts. | ||
05 / 13
Start: 3:00 pm
Get your spin on! On Tuesday, May 13, at 3 PM for Metanomics Rewind, join host Robert Bloomfield to discuss his past interview of some of the real world press who cover our virtual worlds. Bloomfield explored the attraction virtual worlds have for Reuters, CNN and CMP, with commentary from Second Life blogger Prokofy Neva. Eric Krangel represented Reuters, Rhonda Lowry represented CNN/Turner Broadcasting, and John Jainschigg represented CMP. | ||
05 / 14
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05 / 18
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05 / 19
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Monday, May 19 at 11 AM SLT, join us for a "BEST OF METANOMICS" featuring David Levine, a 23-year veteran of IBM Research. Host Rob Bloomfield explored the business implications of three-dimensional visualization, Second Life's Architecture Working Group (AWG), the OpenSim efforts to reverse-engineer private servers to work with the open-sourced Second Life viewer and Levine's perspective on the business models of Linden Lab & There.com. READ MORE for the full story and lots more links! | ||
05 / 20
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Join us on Tuesday, May 20, for a "BEST OF METANOMICS" featuring Professor Joshua Fairfield, who examines the limitations of the current state of contract law in virtual worlds along with host Robert Bloomfield. Fairfield specializes in the law of video games, online regulation, and virtual world economic law. Take a deeper look at Fairfield's research at the Social Science Research Network. | ||
05 / 21
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05 / 24
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05 / 25
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05 / 26
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Join us at 11 AM SLT Monday, May 26th to discuss a Metanomics interview with Robert Gehorsam, the President of Forterra Systems, Inc. Forterra's experience with the University of Maryland's Transportation Laboratory (which is using a virtual world to train I-95 emergency response teams) led to a broader discussion of the role of simulation...which led to an interesting exploration of work being done at the University of Central Florida, and host Rob Bloomfield's favorite term of the day: "the military-entertainment complex". | ||
05 / 27
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Join us Tuesday, May 27th at 3 PM SLT for the "Best of Metanomics" interview with Ted Castronova. Edward Castronova, Associate Professor of Telecommunications at Indiana University, was the first economist to examine virtual worlds. His work on synthetic economies, and Everquest in particular, have helped to define the "cyberian frontier". | ||
