Corporations in Social Virtual Worlds – Psychopaths or Welcome Friends?
. Virtual Worlds Necessitate Corporations Develop Personality followed by Gary’s top 15 tips...
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Tag: representation
Brand and Media Survival Guide to Virtual Worlds – talk transcript
NOTE: Based on my sticky post ‘The Brand Owners Guide to Joining the Metaverse”. As promised a rough transcript of my keynote talk to CeBit last week based on my experience of actually building some Second Life sims,...
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Phase Two – TV & Design Brands and Virtual Worlds
OK yet another post on Virtual Worlds, I know, but I will get round to Joost and YouTube TV...
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Witnessing the Birth of An Entertainment Form
The Relentless March of Channels and Formats into Second Life Rather than just referring to the...
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Human Testing – Tooheys, Cross-Media, ARG, Ad thing
Just sat here late on Saturday fine tuning some of those drafts I mentioned in the last post and...
Read MorePutting the Space in Virtual – Second Life
A quote to start off yet another Virtual World post… ‘“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion’” Democritus (Greek philosopher, 460-370bc) We live in a world where...
Read MoreSecond Life – The Creative Tool for the Masses
Give people very simple and highly social tools for producing and creatively sharing content and truly inventive things will happen. In a growing ‘easy to publish’ movement the current user generated, digital...
Read MoreImmersion – Ambient TV, Addictive MMORPG…
…and the never changing human. Senor Hontar: “We must work in the world. The world is thus.” Father Altamirano: “No Senor Hontar…thus have we made the world. Thus have I made it” Final lines...
Read MoreAlternate Reality Games in Virtual Spaces
OK the title sounds a little ‘space cadet’ and paradoxical but bear with me on this one because the implications go way beyond the focus of this post which is a quick orientation and guide to non-scripted but...
Read MoreThe Personalization of Second Life
What is driving the current shared, participatory virtual spaces? Giving audiences seemingly unlimited personalization and social structure, means big business, if it can be contained within a walled garden where everything you...
Read MoreMedia Journeys Pt. 1 – Media Array
Over the past 11 years in my frequent capacity of training traditional producers in the craft of emerging media production I have used a variety of tool/s, representations, diagrams, exercises, metaphors etc: that have helped...
Read MoreHuman 1.0 upgrade
Apologise to my many tens of readers for being a little lapse in posting over the last weeks, a few diversions that have put me in a big picture, future mode, hence this post. Bear with me on this one – most of my small...
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