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BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006
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It's Not All Fun And Games Companies are also starting to use virtual worlds as alternate offices in which colleagues and partners can meet and view materials that the Web isn't rich enough to display well.   |
Entrepreneur
November 2007
Heather Clancy |
Starting Your Business' Second Life Need to breathe some life into your business? Going virtual can open up a whole new world. |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Quick Take: The Virtual Future or Ponzi 2.0? Is the incredibly popular online universe really just a Ponzi scheme? How much would you be willing to pay for an island in a world where creating more real estate is as easy as clicking a mouse? |
Bank Systems & Technology
November 1, 2007
Nancy Feig |
Banks Are Creating a New Kind of Customer Intimacy With Web 2.0 and Social Networking Web 2.0 and social networking are taking the world by storm, and the banking industry is beginning to get in on the game. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2009
John K. Waters |
A 'Second Life' For Educators Lauded as a learning tool, the popular virtual world is now being used by teachers for their own enrichment, providing them with a wealth of opportunities for collaboration, peer interaction, and sharing of resources. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2008
Anders Bylund |
IBM Moves Into the Virtual World Second Life and IBM just showed that the massive Second Life world can connect to IBM's OpenSim servers. This could be the beginning of open standards that would connect every conceivable virtual reality network to each other. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2006
Steve Hamm |
Palmisano Gets A Second Life IBM is embracing the virtual world of avatars - and other big companies are close behind. |
InternetNews
October 9, 2006
David Needle |
Is Sun's News For Real? Sun is holding a press conference from within Second Life, a virtual online world. |
Knowledge@Wharton
September 24, 2003 |
In Norrath, Tattoine and Rubi-ka, Just What Are Your Legal Rights? Even though virtual worlds are nothing more than code residing in banks of computers, what goes on in them poses challenges to our notions about the nature of property, the legal rights of players in virtual worlds and even the presumed boundary between the real and the imagined worlds. |
BusinessWeek
August 13, 2007
Aili McConnon |
Just Ahead: The Web As A Virtual World Imagine being able to have a digital replica of yourself stroll from one site to another. |
Wired
July 24, 2007
Frank Rose |
How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life More and more people are leaving this virtual world, leaving advertisers and big name companies behind. |
InternetNews
October 12, 2007
Susan Kuchinskas |
Hey IT, Welcome to the Bverse IBM and Linden Labs, creator of Second Life, announced an initiative to create open standards and interoperability allowing people to move their avatars and virtual goods from one world to another. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2010
Jonathan Allen |
9 Reasons Why it Might Be Time For Marketers to Value Virtual Goods Convergence of web, mobile and TV may create stronger emotional connections between audiences. |
InternetNews
November 24, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Get a Life: Enterprises Eye Potential For Second Life Enterprises are dipping their toes in the waters of virtual worlds, but may have to wait to see the benefits. |
Information Today
July 14, 2008
Lori Bell |
As the (Virtual) Worlds Turn Google released Lively, a public beta version of its much-anticipated three-dimensional virtual world. |
PC World
October 2, 2006
Mark Wallace |
The Future of You Think the Net has changed your life? Wait until it becomes an immersive 3D environment. |
CFO
October 1, 2007
Alan Rappeport |
Second Life's John Zdanowski The CFO of Second Life explains what the online virtual world is all about, and how his real-world company measures and rewards employee performance with the Love Machine. |
Wall Street & Technology
December 17, 2007
Melanie Rodier |
Saxo Bank CEO Says Second Life is Good for Communications and Fun Although it is still too early to tell how companies ultimately will leverage Second Life to gain strategic business advantage, the financial services industry continues to expand in the virtual world as it grows more and more popular. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
My Virtual Life A journey into a place in cyberspace where thousands of people have imaginary lives. Some even make a good living. Big advertisers are taking notice. |
Fast Company
February 1, 2007 |
Fast Talk: Getting A (Second) Life Chuck Hamilton is using Second Life to train new IBM hires. And he looks darned good in a kilt. |
InternetNews
April 2, 2008 |
Avatars at House Hearing on Virtual World Second Life and censorship discussed on Capitol Hill. |
PC Magazine
October 28, 2003
Dan Costa |
Virtual Worlds Tired of the real world? Try a virtual one. These sites can have the graphic richness of massively multiplayer online role-playing games but are focused more on social activities and creativity than on dragon-slaying. |
Insurance & Technology
February 1, 2007
Katherine Burger |
The Buzz About Linden Lab's Second Life Raises Possibilities for Insurance Companies The media buzz about Linden Lab's Second Life online digital world raises commerce and customer possibilities for insurance companies and other financial institutions. |
CIO
May 12, 2011
Maria Korolov |
Companies Explore Private Virtual Worlds Alternatives to Second Life provide security while boosting productivity. |
Reason
June 2008
Wagner James Au |
Virtually Free The garish, skyscraper-sized billboards that subscribers to Second Life had learned to tolerate as part of their three-dimensional landscape are no more. |
Inc.
February 2007
Michael Fitzgerald |
My Second Life Life For all its irritating clunkiness, Second Life is intriguing. |
Entrepreneur
February 2007
Gwen Moran |
Hot New Market: Online Worlds Should you take your business to the virtual world? |
Fast Company
July 2009
Michael Fitzgerald |
Boomtown Virtual goods, such as avatars and Facebook gifts, are attracting major brands, celebrities, and venture capital. The money is real. |
Wall Street & Technology
April 28, 2007
J. Nicholas Hoover |
Wells Fargo Taps Web 2.0 The financial services firm is using blogs, wikis and even Second Life's virtual world to connect employees and customers. |
The Motley Fool
October 24, 2008
Tim Beyers |
One Disruptive Growth Company Cash. Lots of cold, hard moola is making its way into online virtual worlds. Media companies and venture capital firms have pumped $493 million into Second Life wannabes during 2008. |
PC World
May 21, 2007
Dan Tynan |
Traveling the Web's Third Dimension My avatar, my self: Second Life shows us the future of the 3D Web. |
CRM
March 1, 2007
Jessica Sebor |
Material Living in a Virtual World Companies are looking to take a piece of Second Life's digital pie because of its explosive membership, but will this move prove virtually insignificant? |
InternetNews
September 1, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Banks on Deal with Dutch IBM scored a big victory for its IT outsourcing division with a five-year, $1.87 billion contract with ABN AMRO. |
Bank Technology News
August 2009 |
How Wells Keeps Them Satisfied By using ethnography, Wells Fargo is able to see the real-life role the Web can potentially play in its customers' lives and businesses before making site upgrades or redesigns. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
The Online Universe: An Old Fogey's Guide Here's a primer on the strange new world of online gaming. |
AskMen.com
Phil Helm |
5 Things You Didn't Know About Second Life Maybe you've tried and liked Second Life and maybe you haven't; either way there are surely a few things about the virtual world that may surprise you. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
Virtual Land, Real Money Second Life is an online world where a savvy avatar can make a bundle. Its best known "land" developer explains how. |
InternetNews
November 13, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Real Cash in $100M Virtual IBM Investment IBM to Announce $100 million investment at Second Life 'Town Hall' Meeting tomorrow. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Michael Tennesen |
Avatar Acts: Why Online Realities Need Regulation Conflicts on environments like Second Life can open up new legal questions |
InternetNews
April 3, 2008 |
IBM Readies Second Life For Enterprise IBM said on Wednesday it would become the first company to host private regions of the virtual world Second Life on its own computer servers. |
PC Magazine
June 20, 2007
Brian Heater |
Q&A Brian Shuster Red Light Center The founder of Utherverse talks about creating the controversial Red Light Center, the red-light-district version of Second Life. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
Virtual Worlds, Virtual Economies An economist talks about how online games can blur the line between fantasy and reality. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2007
Nathan Parmelee |
ABN Shareholders Will Decide Megamerger ABN's management is pushing for the Barclays deal but may just be looking out for its best interests. Fortunately, the shareholders will get a chance to vote and decide this issue for themselves. |
The Motley Fool
April 23, 2007
Nathan Parmelee |
Barclays and ABN Amro Seal the Deal The combined Barclays and ABN Amro will be among one of the 10 largest banks in the world, one of the largest credit card issuers, and the largest institutional asset manager in the world. Investors, take note. |
Bank Systems & Technology
August 30, 2005
Judy Ward |
Working Smarter To increase its productivity of U.S. lockbox operations, Amsterdam-based ABN AMRO Bank used Demos Solutions' consulting services and StaffSmart Enterprise workforce-management software. |
