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<title><![CDATA[Moving on to World2Worlds™—What’s That You Ask?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Exciting and interesting times! World2Worlds is the company I’ve owned for well over a year now and has been under contract to CMP working hand in hand with John Jainschigg for whom I’d been providing consulting services in the development, design, implementation and management of their virtual world presence and events, such as the Life 2.0 conferences.  I’m very excited to be publicly sharing this with you!]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:03:01 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Metanomics at CMP: Accounting and Taxes!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Join us Monday, March 31, at 11:00 AM PDT/2:00 PM ET for a panel to discuss taxes and financial reporting for virtual businesses, with Rocky Maddaloni, Director of the Maryland Association of CPAs (and also Director of SLACPA), Chili Carson, who has an accounting practice in SL, and Bryan Camp, Tax Law Prof from Texas Tech (and Metanomics guest from the Fall).<br><b>&raquo;<a href="http://www.life20.net/lb.php" style="color: white;">Monday, March 31, 11:00 AM SLT (2:00 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)</a></b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:57:52 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Metanomics at CMP: Mitch Kapor on Changes at Linden Lab ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Join us Friday, March 28, at 10:30 AM PDT/1:30 PM ET for a special session of Metanomics with Mitch Kapor, Chairman of the Board of Linden Lab, to discuss management changes at the company and the future of Second Life.<br><b>&raquo;<a href="http://www.life20.net/lb.php" style="color: white;">Friday, March 28, 10:30 AM SLT (1:30 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)</a></b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:59:03 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sun, Wonderland and Immersive Learning]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Join us Thursday, March 27, at 10:00 AM PDT/1:00 PM ET for a conversation with Kevin Roebuck, Community Manager for Immersive Technologies at Sun. Kevin will offer an overview Sun's global educational initiatives. He'll discuss Wonderland, an open source toolkit for creating 3D virtual worlds. And he'll describe Sun's roadmap for the future of Education, including the Open Virtual Worlds Project with the New Media Consortium and the Immersive Education Initiative at Media Grid. <br><b>&raquo;<a href="http://www.life20.net/lb.php" style="color: white;">Thursday, March 27, 10 AM SLT (1 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)</a></b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:01:13 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Metanomics at CMP: Visit to CosmoGirl in There.com]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Join us Monday, March 24, at 11:00 AM PDT (2:00 PM EDT) for a video-mediated trip to There.com to see CosmoGirl's new installation. Professor Robert Bloomfield (Beyers Sellers) moderates. With Mary Jane Gordon of Market Truths and other special guests! <br><b>&raquo;<a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/CMP%201/238/8/23/" style="color: white;">Monday, March 24, 11 AM SLT (2 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)</a></b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:37:19 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Identity, Migration and Critical Density]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I love the last ten days before a big show, when final pieces of the program start falling into place. Sun's Nicole Yankelovich will be keynoting on Tuesday the 18th, discussing Wonderland: Sun's powerful 3D collaboration world for knowledge-workers. Yankelovich is Principal Investigator in Collaboration Environments for Sun Labs, and is a bonafide pioneer in user experience design -- an early innovator in IP telephony, speech UI, shared shells and similar technology. Following up at 2 PM PST/5 PM ET will be Sun's Chief Gaming Officer, Chris Melissinos, who'll give us Java-heads the latest and straightest on Darkstar, Sun's massively-scaleable "redshift" platform for multi-user game and virtual world building. Meanwhile, I've been on the email since the wee hours with Cisco's Christian Renaud, Chief Architect of Networked Virtual Environments, who's been (as usual) waxing insightful about how virtual worlds re-intermediate between people and economic actors who might otherwise be disenfranchised and driven apart by hyperconnectivity. We're looking forward to his keynote on Friday, March 21 at 9 AM PST/Noon ET.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:48:27 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sun&#39;s Richard Zippel on &quot;RedShift&quot;]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sun coined use of the term "Redshift" to describe business models (like 3D, social networking, rich IP media) that -- distinct from 'enterprise scale computing' -- require computational and networking architectures offering rates of improvement in speed, bandwidth and reliability equal to or greater than that offered by Moore's Law. Join us Thursday, March 6th, at 10:00 AM PST (1:00 PM EST) for a conversation with Dr. Richard Zippel, VP Technology for Sun Microsystems, for a state-of-the-art update on "Redshift," and developer-focused computing services (cloud computing). <br><b>&raquo;<a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/CMP%201/238/8/23/" style="color: white;">Thursday, March 6, 10 AM SLT (1 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)</a></b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:51:13 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[InformationWeek Live: Report from India]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Join us Tuesday, March 4, at noon SLT (3 PM ET) for a conversation with InformationWeek's Chris Murphy describing the insights he gained on a two-week tour of the IT industry in India, looking at startups, IT in a small village, and of course the thriving outsourcing industry. InformationWeek Senior Editor, Mitch Wagner, presiding.<br><b>&raquo;<a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/CMP%201/238/8/23/" style="color: white;">Tuesday, March 4, Noon SLT (3 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)</a></b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:58:30 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Life 2.0 - As Green as Five Brazilian Households]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A little more than a year ago, Nicholas Carr, author of "Does IT Matter?" and other influential books produced a back-of-the-envelope analysis of the environmental impact of Second Life. The relevant blog entry can be found <a href="http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/12/avatars_consume.php" style="color: orange;text-decoration: underline;">here.</a> His math shows that the average resident of Second Life consumes about as much energy, annually as the average citizen of Brazil. Subsequent math, by Sun's Dave Douglas, quoted on Carr's blog, converts this to the equivalent of about 1.17 tons of carbon, per avatar, per year.<br />
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:47:42 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[InformationWeek Live! Clay Shirky]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Join us on Tuesday, Feb 26, 2008 at Noon PST/SLT (3 PM ET) for a conversation with New York University's Clay Shirky, author of <i>Here Comes Everybody: The Power Of Organizing Without Organizations</i>, which describes how social networks like MySpace and Digg are allowing new kinds of collaborative action. InformationWeek Senior Editor, Mitch Wagner, presiding.<br><b>&raquo;<a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/CMP%201/248/118/25" style="color: white;">Tuesday, February 26, Noon SLT (3 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)</a></b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:54:11 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Metanomics at CMP: There.com CEO Michael Wilson]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Join us Monday, February 25 at 11 AM SLT for an interview with There.com CEO and eBay pioneer Michael Wilson. Professor Robert Bloomfield of Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management will interview Mr. Wilson in There.com, the show will be interactively broadcast to CMP's amphitheatre and Metanomics partner sims by SLCN.tv.<br><b>&raquo;<a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/CMP%201/248/118/25" style="color: white;">Monday, February 25, 11 AM SLT (2 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)</a></b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:07:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Metanomics at CMP with There.com CEO]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Metanomics is delighted to welcome There.com CEO Michael Wilson on February 25th, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time.  Mr. Wilson was responsible for building the organization and technology for eBay, and is taking that ability and experience into the Metaverse.  He will be interviewed by the host of Metanomics, Professor Robert Bloomfield of Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.  The interview will take place in There.com, with live audiences both in There and in Second Life’s CMP 1 Island, managed by CMP Metaverse.  The show will be filmed in both worlds by the metaverse’s premier television network, Second Life Cable Network, and streamed live onto http://SLCN.tv.  Live audiences in both There.com and Second Life will be able to pose questions for Mr. Wilson, in a discussion ranging from the “Four Rivers of Revenue” for virtual worlds to the strategic vision of There.com and the future of the Metaverse. <br />
<strong>Monday, February 25th, 11:00 SLT (2 PM EST) at the CMP Amphitheatre <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/CMP%201/237/119/24/">http://slurl.com/secondlife/CMP%201/237/119/24/</a> </strong>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:27:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reflections and Thoughts – Part 1 of Many - Metaverse U at Stanford]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[What can I say? This two-day conference had some pretty amazing presentations.  Some were inspiring, others thought provoking.  I’ve a few comments on some of the presentations I’d like to share with you today and over the next few days as it's far too much for one blog post. Before I do, one of the statements made at the beginning of the conference was that this was the first conference to stream “to” SL, live, and take questions from the audience.  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:32:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Director&#39;s Cut: Schizoid is A-OK]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As soon as an event stabilizes, it reduces to formula – driven by the pressure to differentiate, by marketing's desire to drum out one simple message, and by the human herd instinct. But a fast-growing show like Life 2.0 can get away with being what I like to call "productively schizoid."]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:16:36 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[InformationWeek Live: New Stuff from Microsoft!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Join us on Tuesday, February 19, at noon SLT/3PM ET, for a look ahead at Microsoft's hotly-awaited February 27 announcements of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008! InformationWeek Executive Editor Mitch Wagner and Senior Editor Nick Hoover explore the issues in a live audio Q&A.<br><b>&raquo;<a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/CMP%201/248/118/25" style="color: white;">Tuesday, February 19, Noon SLT (3 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)</a></b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:58:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Metanomics at CMP: Real World Media in Virtual Worlds]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Join us on Monday, February 18, at 11 AM SLT/2PM ET, for a special session, co-produced with <a href="http://www.metanomics.net" style="text-decoration: underline;color: white">Metanomics</a> and <a href="http://www.slcn.tv" style="text-decoration: underline;color: white">SLCN.TV</a> Metanomics host, Prof. Robert Bloomfield of Cornell (Beyers Sellers) will interview Eric Krangel (Eric Reuters - SL correspondent for Reuters News Agency); Rhonda Lowry (Rhonda Lowry - VP, Emerging Technologies at Turner Broadcasting System/TBS); Prokofy Neva (who blogs at <a href="http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/" style="text-decoration: underline;color: white">>secondthoughts.com</a>); and John Jainschigg (John Zhaoying, of CMP).<br><b>&raquo;<a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/CMP%201/248/118/25" style="color: white;">Monday, 11 AM SLT (2 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)</a></b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:47:45 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[InformationWeek Live!  Locational Technologies]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Join us on Tuesday, February 12, at noon SLT/3PM ET for <i>InformationWeek Live</i>, where Mitch Wagner and guests will take a look at GPS and other technologies businesses are using those to offer services that know exactly where you are. Produced over <a href="http://www.talkshoe.com" style="text-decoration: underline; color: white;">TalkShoe</a> and streaming live into Second Life.   <br />
With host Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek editors Marianne McGee and Stephen Wellman, and David Neel of Trackmypizza.com.<b><br>&raquo;<a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/CMP%201/248/118/25" style="color: white;">Tuesday, February 5, Noon SLT (3 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)</a></b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:37:17 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Registration Open for Life 2.0 Spring]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Life 2.0 Spring registration officially opened today. Naturally, about 24 hours in advance of my actually being ready to open registration. But ... welcome! We're doubling the size of prior events -- working on four sims plus scale-free realtime video to the web. Over 100 presenters in six tracks — covering technology, tools and best-practice for metaverse application and business development. We'll dive deep to explore opportunities offered by 18 emerging virtual world platforms. So you should <a href="http://www.life20.net/register.php?event=l20spring08" style="color: white;text-decoration: underline;">register right now</a> and then come back daily for the fast-emerging story. You'll be happy, I promise.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:38:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[InformationWeek Live: SOA and Virtualization]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Join us on Tuesday, February 5, at noon SLT/3PM ET for <i>InformationWeek Live</i> with InformationWeek executive editor Mitch Wagner and senior editor Andy Dornan. Produced over <a href="http://www.talkshoe.com" style="text-decoration: underline; color: white;">TalkShoe</a> and streaming live into Second Life, Mitch and Andy will discuss how service-oriented architecture can drive virtualization to the next generation, based on <a href="http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206100656"  style="text-decoration: underline; color: white;">Andy's article in this week's InformationWeek</a>. <b><a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/CMP%201/248/118/25" style="color: white;">Tuesday, February 5, Noon SLT (3 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)</a></b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:00:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[GridTalk: Virga Author Karl Schroeder]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Join us Friday, February 1, at Noon SLT (Pacific)/3PM ET for a conversation with futurist and science-fiction author Karl Schroeder. A native of Manitoba (like A.E. Van Vogt), Schroeder is perhaps best-known for <i>Sun of Suns</i> and subsequent books in the <i>Virga</i> series. As futurist, Schroeder has helped organize seminars and colloquia on subjects including security, military operations, biotech, health care, and the outlook for Canada over the next quarter-century. <b><a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/CMP%201/248/118/25" style="color: white;">Friday, February 1, Noon SLT (3 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)</a></b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:58:39 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sun&#39;s Steve Wilson on xVM Virtualization and Eco-Computing]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Please join us Thursday, 1/31, at 3 PM SLT (6 PM ET) for a conversation with Sun's Steve Wilson on the "green benefits" of xVM: how virtualization helps save the planet, and saves you money, too. Server virtualization is a key tool for consolidating the data center -- improving efficiency and serviceability while reducing footprint, power consumption, heat dissipation and costs! Sun's robust xVM virtualization architecture, introduced third quarter of last year, leverages the work of opensource communities such as Xen -- enabling the virtual hosting of Windows, Linux and Solaris operating systems, and facilitating the provisioning and management of co-located virtual servers. <b><a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/CMP%201/248/118/25" style="color: white;">Thursday, January 31, 3 PM SLT (6 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)</a></b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:53:10 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Join Us For GridTalk Tuesday With Intel&#39;s Stephen Fischer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Join us as we launch the Tuesday GridTalk for 2008 with Intel's Stephen Fischer, senior principal engineer, Intel Corp. Fischer will talk about Intel's desktop processor strategy and technology, including the brand-new Penryn processor.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:25:52 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Choices, Tools, and Professional Affiliations]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Over the last several months a recurring topic of conversation in both the physical and virtual worlds has centered on “What do I do now?” following entry into the virtual world of Second Life.  All types of people and associated professions hit this wall not long after arriving and completing the tutorials.  It’s always simultaneously amused and frustrated me that most of the media that have journeyed in come away with many disparaging remarks, unable to see why or how businesses could (and do, I might add), take advantage of an immersive platform that connects to a global environment.  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:26:38 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ARE YOU A PROCRASTINATOR????]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This morning I was meandering through my email and actually reading some of the automatic news emails I'd signed up for.  An article in the "TechRepublic" caught my eye and I just had to read it and share with you.  Entitled <em>"Master the Art of Procastination"</em> by Wayne L. Anderson, had me chuckling as I perused it.  I thought to myself, "This is something I can master? I thought I was already quite good at."]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:36:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chris Melissinos, Chief Gaming Officer for Sun Microsystems addresses the Dr. Dobb&#39;s Life 2.0 Fall Summit--Watch him here!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pollywog Gardenvale's machinima features an excerpt from Chris Melissinos, Chief Gaming Officer for Sun Microsystems, keynote during the Life 2.0 Summit on Dr. Dobb's Island in Second Life. <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q8hBehx4n44">Click me</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:54:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[LSL University-Day 1 by Pollywog Gardenvale]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pollywog Press provides us with a look at Day 1 of LSL University featuring the pre-event networking breakfast followed by instructors MikeG1 Schuman and Vyrnox Ming. <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q8hBehx4n44">Click me</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:36:18 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wall Street Gecko on Life 2.0]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[You have to love <a href="http://www.wallstreetgecko.com">Wall Street Gecko</a>. They recently posted a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb_17WWHS8s">YouTube vid</a> on Life 2.0 Summit -- long on the Gecko, with some good pans of Rissa, the Sun party, and other metaverse stuff.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:46:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[These Last Few Weeks - Life2.0 and Onward!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[These last few weeks have gone by at an alarming pace.  Full, frenzied, complex, decisive and foward progression.  I'm exhausted! Even my avatar self appears exhausted as she wanders Second Life seeking a fashion breakthrough that doesn't look like everything else already out there.  Good news though--Life 2.0 Fall Summit was a huge success.  I love meeting new people and enjoy renewing friendships and acquaintances during and after events like this.  I mean, it's all about the people--You.  <br />
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:39:20 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sculpty Day - Finally!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Sunday afternoon, September 16, under the auspices of Life 2.0 Summit Fall, we presented <i>Sculpty Day</i> -- a mini-symposium of sculpted-prim toolmakers and artisans. Present were Anjin Meili, who set the tone for the afternoon with a brilliant explanation of SL's sculpted prim technology and its antecedents and parallels elsewhere in computer graphics, and demonstrated some of his amazing tools for dataset-to-sculpty conversion and inworld 3D voxel-hull 'tracing' of linked-prim forms for conversion into one-prim sculpty datasets. A crowd of a little over 100 attended ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:47:02 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Life2.0 Fall Summit Opening Day]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hi all! Dr. Dobb's Life2.0 Fall Summit is underway.  It was a very busy time leading up to opening day.  Between assisting our wonderful sponsors, Sun Microsystems and IBM, helping John pull together the program, and making numerous arrangements – I've not had much time to blog here.  

On the 15th (yesterday) the Summit began.  Truly, <strong>MikeG1 Schumann and Vyrnox Ming,</strong> are amazing people. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:17:35 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[JOB FAIRS IN SL - PERSPECTIVE SHIFT REQUIRED]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I was speaking with a friend of mine the other day -- a very bright, technically-competent corporate attorney. He'd been reading about TMP's upcoming Job Fair (their second), and asked why corporate recruiters are interested in this kind of thing. "I read about people showing up at virtual interviews without their clothes," he laughed. "And it sounds like some of the job-related nightmares I've had. Why would a recruiter want to interview an avatar, anyway? Wouldn't a phone call work just as well and be cheaper?"]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:56:48 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dentsu Premieres &#39;Virtual Tokyo&#39; August 24]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On August 24, Japanese ad agency Dentsu will launch Virtual Tokyo in Second Life: a massive development (reported by <a href="http://www.internetfinancialnews.com/financialblogtalk/news/ifn-6-20070823JapaneseWallStreettoopeninSecondLife.html">Nick Hobson of Internet Financial News</a> as '85000 hectares,' which translates to around 12 sims) intended to host the presences of 30 or so blue-chip clients, in particular financial entities.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:57:07 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rissa&#39;s Thoughts and Comments on &quot;Five Rules for Bringing Your RL Business Into Second Life&quot;]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I read with great interest Mitch Wagner’s (InformationWeek) article on the “Five Rules for Bringing Your Real Life Business Into Second Life” and the comments that have been posted as of August 23, 2007.  His first rule is “Engage”—something we’ve been practicing and continue to practice on Dr. Dobb’s Island, which has proven key to our operations.  In using Second Life for business and social activities, I’ve met some of the best and brightest through discussion groups, social networking activities and during our Life2.0 Spring Summit (www.life20.net).  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:56:01 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mapisimo Explored]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I read with interest about Mapisimo™ today.  This is yet another "virtual type world" to enter the fray.  I say "virtual type world" because I believe that is their intent, although it's a far cry from that right now. As it’s been billed, it may truly end up being the world’s largest wall of graffiti.  Leveraging the Google Maps API, it depicts the entire world.  You’re granted two free “dunams” (units of land) anywhere you want as long as no one else owns it already.  Optionally you can use your PayPal™ account to purchase additional lots.  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:26:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[My Space! There! No, its SL!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In my surreal metaverse life, (and my not-so-surreal physical world surroundings), I come across many interesting (arches an eyebrow here) subjects to write about.  Now I’ve got my space to do it in, so watch out! I’ve found that it’s hard to choose what to focus on amidst such a plethora of rapidly changing technologies, social networking platforms and how that all relates to business in the metaverse.  Given that, and some pounding on my desk, I’ve decided that I can’t make up my mind.  In general you’ll read about my thoughts on meta-business activities; gadgets and gizmos in and out of the metaverse; expression of strong opinions or counterpoints to things I’ve read, seen or heard; and, fashion.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:46:43 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vyrnox Ming on &quot;CHISEL&quot; - May 4 at 4PM SLT]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[You've tried builder HUDs. You've fooled around with rezzers and re-rezzers and holodecks and imports. But you're still looking for a way of programmatically describing structure and working on it in a fully-interactive inworld and web-integrated way. Vyrnox Ming's Chisel is an inworld power tool with web-driven speed and smarts -- a chatted metalanguage for SL building and LSL that makes ordinary building woes vanish in a welter of self-actualized flying prims. At 4PM SLT May 4, in the Life 2.0 Amphitheatre, join us as Vyrnox Ming, Chisel's inventor, makes some fireforks with the system.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 13:44:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Panel: SL/Web - Friday May 4, Noon SLT]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today at Noon, SLT, in the Life 2.0 Amphitheatre on Dr Dobbs Island, join panelists Felix Wakmann (CEO of Smark!), MikeRP Mapp (CTO of RatePoint), and Nuke Paine (CTO of Carbon Project) as they join Dr. Dobb's John Zhaoying for a free-ranging discussion of web-to-SL connections: present and futures, and the even more exciting vision of 'net-mediated, multi-platform metaverse integration, geodata and real/virtual geosocial networking.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 13:41:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Panel: Roads to ROI]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Join panelists Tinder Binder (Director of Computer Security Institute), Hackshaven Harford (SL Program Chief, NOAA), Bitt Toll (SL Security developer/entrepreneur and .NET MVP), Keystone Bouchard (partner, Clear Ink), and ChrisRP Mapp (CEO of RatePoint) as they discuss what's important in achieving ROI from SL builds and integrated businesses. How is ROI conceived? How is traffic best measured and used for optimization? How does community play in marketing and ROI generation? What are the dials developers, builders, and service integrators can turn to speed up ROI and build successful businesses in (or linked to) the metaverse?]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 13:46:18 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Suzanne Zeluco Interview]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Thursday, May 3, at 3 PM SLT, John Zhaoying will interview Suzanne Zeluco, principal of S*Z Design and S*Z Pianofabrik, and one of Second Life's most skilled design/script fusionists. Also see Suzanne's booth in the Bazaar section of Dr Dobbs Island. Interview to be held on Dr Dobbs Island, in the Life 2.0 Summit Amphitheatre.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 13:42:36 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Grady Booch on Collaboration in SL]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Thursday, May 3, at 4 PM SLT, Grady Booch (Alem Theas), IBM Fellow, Object-oriented innovator and recipient of the 2007 Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award will share his thoughts on using Second Life as a collaborative environment for software development. Dr Dobbs Island, in the Life 2.0 Summit Amphitheatre.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 13:30:57 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[LSLogo Workshop - 4 PM SLT]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This afternoon (Wednesday May 2) at 4 PM SLT near the Dr Dobbs Island teleHUB, Bradford Russell, Chief Technical Drow, and some like-minded attendees will collaborate in an attempt to create a minimal version of the 'turtle graphics' feature-set, common to Logo and PILOT. All registered attendees are invited! Results will be opensourced.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 12:10:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chat During Presentations - Question for Audience and Presenters]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Most presentations over the past four days of Life 2.0 Summit have been delivered via audio (i.e., teleconference to ShoutCast, hence back to attendees via the theatre parcel's Music URL). This leaves audience members free -- effectively in a separate "channel" from the speaker -- to discuss and feed back via Chat. And a colleague of ours has raised the question whether this should be encouraged.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 09:07:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Timeless says &quot;Nuh-UH!&quot;]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Okay, so it's not collisions. The big problem with collisions (among other ... now hitting own head) is that firing an object down a barrel whose direction constantly changes with gun position is annoying (though in refutation, the LOCAL parameter to llApplyImpulse might be used, here). And conceptually, it's a pretty wack idea to fire a gun via "blowback" -- seems a little counterproductive. But the point is, that's not the secret. Research continues.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 09:01:58 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reception: Jacque Quijote (Philip Mallory Jones) and &quot;Sweet Bye and Bye v.2.0&quot;]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Please join us on Wednesday evening, at 5:00 PM SLT, at the Von Neumann Convention Center ArtSpace on <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dr%20Dobbs%20Island/140/128/28">Dr Dobbs Island</a> for a brief lecture by, and reception in honor of Jacque Quijote (Philip Mallory Jones). Mr Mallory Jones is the creator of "Sweet Bye and Bye" -- a stunning multimedia+narrative evocation of aspects of the African Diaspora and the Black American experience which appears in its version 2.0 iteration at Life 2.0 Summit (the original is on display at <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ohio%20University/48/122/33">Ohio University's SL Campus</a> where Mr. Mallory Jones is artist-in-residence. At Wednesday's event, he will lead attendees through the installation, which was created using techniques uniquely possible in virtual reality, and describe how SL has influenced his artistic vision and creative practice.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 14:18:26 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Philip Rosedale Keynote, Tuesday May 1, 4 PM SLT]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Lab and the visionary originator of Second Life, will speak on SL as a developer environment and a developer opportunity. The keynote will take place on Tuesday, May 1, at 4 PM SLT, in the <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dr%20Dobbs%20Island/140/128/28">Dr Dobbs Island</a> Amphitheatre (local teleport available at inbound teleHUB).]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 14:13:39 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Collisions!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[At a special presentation on Saturday, Timeless Prototype, originator of the MultiGadget (whose MG chairs dot the IBM sims and our own) was discussing weapons. Specifically, he was talking about how to use multiple objects/scripts to rez many bullets in succession without running into energy and timing limits.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:26:46 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mitch Kapor - Chairman of Linden Lab - To Keynote Monday, April 30, at Life 2.0 Summit]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today, Monday April 30, at 4:00 PM, Mitch Kapor, Chairman of Linden Lab will keynote live at Dr. Dobb's Life 2.0 Summit, on Dr Dobbs Island's main Amphitheatre. Perhaps best-known as the creator of Lotus 1-2-3 -- the spreadsheet that sparked the revolution in desktop business computing -- Mr. Kapor has had a long subsequent career, both as technology innovator and investor (having backed UUNet, RealNetworks and other groundbreaking companies), and as philanthropist and progressive socio-legal agitator. With John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore, he founded and for several years chaired the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and now chairs the Open Source Applications Forum. He has the best Hawaiian shirt in Second Life.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:15:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Philip Rosedale to Keynote at Life 2.0 Summit]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, May 1, at 4:00 PM SLT, attendees at Dr. Dobb's Life 2.0 Summit will have the opportunity to hear a predictably informative and provocative keynote address from Linden Lab's Founder and CEO, Second Life creator, Philip Rosedale.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:06:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scripting in the SL Sandbox]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott Swigart <a href="http://www.ddj.com/dept/lightlang/198900547">introduces some basic Second Life scripting techniques.</a> He shows how to use a free public sandbox area in Second Life.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:22:13 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Oooh ... Boku!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft just quietly announced Boku: a new interactive programming language for kids reminiscent of Logo. An online community will follow.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:22:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stroker! We Hardly Knew Ye!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Stroker Serpentine's world-famous 'Amsterdam' sim has apparently sold for &#36;50,000 on eBay to an unnamed Dutch entrepreneur.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:02:52 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dr. Dobb&#39;s Announces Life 2.0]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[(03-08) San Francisco -- At the <a href="http://www.gdconf.com">Game Developers Conference</a> in San Francisco, John Jainschigg, Director of Online Technology for <a href="http://www.ddj.com">Dr. Dobb's Journal</a>, announced <a href="http://www.life20.net">Dr. Dobb's Life 2.0</a>, a new initiative aimed at providing software developers with a resource for events, training, and business development within the <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a> virtual world.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:47:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How to make Coffee in SL]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dr%20Dobbs%20Island/119/139/35">Dr. Dobb's/InformationWeek coffee hours</a> (Tuesdays at 7 AM SLT, Fridays at 12 PM SLT). have been running for several months now, and are becoming popular get-togethers for some of SL's kickiest devs, builders and entrepreneurs.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:36:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Second Life ... Third Shift]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last night, my virtual social secretary and I dropped in an iVillage party for Arianna Huffington, and exchanged some dactylographic bons mots with the political opinioneer herself.<br />
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:21:45 -0500</pubDate>
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