Archive for February, 2007

Virtual Currencies and The Meshverse

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Citing a study that places a $588B pricetag on productivity problems caused by e-mail, this CNET article talks about
a Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up called Seriosity has come up with an e-mail management system that borrows heavily from the virtual economies and currencies found in WoW and other large-scale online games.
… Known as Attent, Seriosity’s system [...]

Polymedia

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Linden Labs announced today that it will begin offering voice capabilities for Second Life in June.  The announcement made me think about issues dealing with the simultaneous flow of 2 or more independent media streams - polymedia I call it(like polyrhythmic). Voice in virtual worlds can be very valuable -  even if only a speaker [...]

CBS Aims To Broadcast From Second Life

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Commenting on a pilot Star Trek mashup filmed in Second Life, Les Moonves, chairman of CBS says “maybe someday we can even broadcast one of their virtual works on one of our television networks.”

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