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Quick Hit First Impressions on Second Life’s Viewer 2

Second Life

The biggest upgrade to Second Life since 2003 occurred yesterday… the release of the Viewer 2 beta. I would highly recommend checking it out; it can be installed alongside the main Second Life viewer, v1.23. There hasn’t been a total user interface overhaul since v1.2 (under a separate numbering system) was released in [...]

VIDEO from PANMA Event: Other Spaces: Virtual World Options Beyond Second Life

Virtual Worlds in Academia: Beyond the Hyperbole

Wharton Computing and the Philadelphia Future Salon are proud to present an event, in conjunction with the Wharton Learning Lab’s Evolution of Learning Symposium: Virtual Worlds in Academia: Beyond the Hyperbole. The panel is free for anyone to attend, and we encourage people attending the symposium in the morning to join us after lunch. A [...]

Up Next: Powerpoint to SL Viewer, With a Single Click

I’m looking for interested developers to help me out with a project. I’ve posted this to [SLED], but figured readers of my blog might be interested in joining the project as well.

I’m trying to assemble a team to create a program which will allow “1 click” conversion of Powerpoint documents to a functional slide screen [...]

Virtual World Highlights (and Lowlights) of 2008: Part 2, the Players

Now that I’ve given explained my feelings on the year as a whole, here is a short look at some of the things that either excited me or fell flat on their face during this year.

Proof That Philadelphia is Really the Center of the Metaverse

Philadelphia has a thriving virtual worlds community, and many enthusiasts live [...]

Google Deadly: Never So Lively

Pretty mundane, eh?

I think everyone is having the same reaction to this news: even though no one is completely shocked, still, wow, they’re pulling the plug already? In case you haven’t heard, Google will be shutting down their first foray into avatar based virtual worlds, Lively, mere months after opening it.

Building retention appeal into [...]

CNBC’s “On the Money”

Tim and Jennifer were featured as Second Life experts on CNBC’s On the Money in March, 2006. The footage taken has been re-cut and re-aired frequently on CNBC, MSNBC, and NBC, as well as a documentary on the history of video games and virtual worlds.

Lovely ride home in the sunshine with the windows down for the first time in longer than I can remember! 2010/03/16
YAY, our Intarwebs are back. It made it hard getting work done over the weekend. 2010/03/15
@erinwyher Welcome to Twitter. You're lucky you had TV and Internet last night... Comcast outage in my area! 2010/03/15
Penn UIConf Higher Ed Web Symposium registration is open! http://tr.im/RXg5 Don Norman! Cory Ondrejka! Come join us. 2010/03/15
How about a month of nice weather? Trying to get my house back on the market - argh! 2010/03/15

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