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PC Magazine
October 28, 2003
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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.   |
Entrepreneur
January 2007
Karen E. Spaeder |
Personal Touch Avatars let your customers spread the word about you. |
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. |
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. |
CIO
November 19, 2010
Stephanie Overby |
Online Collaboration: How Merck Uses Virtual Worlds for Global Meetings Merck Research Laboratories' scientists share their research online using virtual meeting software. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2011
Bailenson & Blascovich |
Virtual Reality and Social Networks Will Be a Powerful Combination Avatars will make social networks seductive |
Entrepreneur
June 2007 |
Face Time? Managing employees in Second Life. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
The Online Universe: An Old Fogey's Guide Here's a primer on the strange new world of online gaming. |
Inc.
February 2008
Buchanan, Chafkin & McCarthy |
Your Websites: Age-Old Problems; New Age Solutions How to get maximum impact from your website. |
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
September 28, 2007
Mike Elgan |
Don't Believe In Google's 'My World' What we know about the "My World" project is made up from what Google might call a "mashup" of sketchy facts, speculation and wishful thinking. Let's have a look. |
Technology Research News
May 19, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Group dynamics play out in VR Nakanishi, a researcher at Kyoto University in Japan, has built a demo system using FreeWalk software for conducting virtual, or telecommute, evacuation drills. |
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
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
December 21, 2009 |
Microsoft to Mirror Your Real Condition Online If a patent that Microsoft is seeking is granted, the old saw that "on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog" may be history. |
National Defense
May 2010
Austin Wright |
Airmen to Live Out Their Careers In Cyberspace Air Force officials anticipate a world in which every recruit receives an avatar upon joining the service. |
CIO
October 1, 2001
John Edwards |
Talking Heads Using an avatar means never having to worry about a bad hair day... |
National Defense
February 2012
Eric Beidel |
Avatars Invade Military Training Systems The influence of video games on military training has been substantial, and the military's interest in avatars -- for soldiers and other actors in simulations -- is growing. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
October 11, 2006
David Needle |
Sun Finds a Home in Second Life Sun Microsystems plans to invest in virtual world pavilion as a site for developers. |
InternetNews
April 2, 2008 |
Avatars at House Hearing on Virtual World Second Life and censorship discussed on Capitol Hill. |
Wired
November 27, 2007
Lisa Katayama |
Japanese Schoolgirl Watch: OMG! MMORPG on My Cell Phone! Second Life on the go? It's a reality for Japanese gals. Mobile tech company Media Groove just launched Chipuya Town, a virtual world accessible on any Flash-enabled keitai. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 1, 2009
Scott Aronowitz |
Chile Turns to Social Media To Expand English Literacy The federal government of Chile has chosen social media service Mingoville.com to provide the tools the nation's students will need to achieve fluency in English. |
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 |
