Another selection of my items cross-posted from another of my original blogs, lamp watercooler.
The Ulitmate Mashup Launches - Sport, MMOG & Social Virtual World - 16 Oct 08

Football Superstars is the world’s first Virtual Football World. An entire online virtual world designed by football fans exclusively for football fans, where you can enjoy a massively [...]

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What is Mixed Reality, why is it relevant and has TV become it’s background medium of choice for larger numbers of media consumers who around the world are spending more time in online pursuits than glued to the content breaks in-between the advertising slots of commercial TV. How will TV survive in a world where [...]

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OK you should have spotted quite a few characters living on this post :)  Originally there were ‘video-real’ talking, salesy character centered on the page courtesy of CLIVEvideo but I still talk about them more below.

A few months ago I blogged about the new kid on the intranet block, those  ‘layered’ social virtual worlds. Quite [...]

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Been a bit lapse in not posting other talks I have been giving around Oz so these are just in time. A range from Cross-Social-Media, Mixed Reality, Games/Film and the Creative Web…

Thursday 23rd October, 2008  - DebateIT: All the web’s a stage!
Join us as we debate whether the internet is helping unleash creativity. What opportunities [...]

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Interesting times ahead - the Console space finally collides with the Social Virtual World space as Sony and Microsoft race to be first to offer non-closed beta, ’social (read: commercial) virtual world’ front ends to their ‘trojan horse’ consoles. Will they start to reap the benefits of a very large installed user base as both [...]

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OK I had better blog this ‘press release‘ copied below which quotes me, but also as I am heavily involved in the creation of these courses and still running LAMP (the innovation unit at AFTRS). Frankly it is one of the best things to happen in Australian industry education for the last three years that [...]

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A selection of mini posts I did in the last few weeks on the slightly 101 LAMP Watercooler blog…
Will they Flock to Electric Sheep’s SVW Browser?
Interesting enterprise development from California based, Electric Sheep Company (notable for doing branded developments across virtual worlds like There.com and Second Life) as well as cross-over, mixed reality gigs like [...]

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Social Media and Web 2.0 is a lot about providing the tools and therefore the means for everyone to create content, that they believe others may want to see. I have personally created a lot of corporate, professional entertainment and music films over the years using high end equipment but now, like many millions around [...]

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The Sydney Morning Herald, and a few blogs who should know better, continue the tiresome trend of metaverse and specifically Second Life bashing. Asher Moses ( decided to run a recent item based loosely on a few lines of an old bit of research from a PhD student looking at the potential of Virtual Reality [...]

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Selected, public worldwide conference presentations, many given as BBC senior producer. Topics include future gazing, personalization standards, creative and emerging production. These represent around 25% of all Gary’s presentations, most others are under NDA, too strategic or specific in topic. Future presentations to be added and others from archive on-going. The selected slideshow embeds are [...]

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Gary Hazlitt, Gazlitt and me take a ‘break’ in over fifty worlds comprising the current metaverse, here is the holiday video…
I am doing a commercial report and curriculum development on the evolving range of social virtual worlds and have recently ventured into fifty of them to review and sample the culture, creative, business and educational [...]

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I am presenting at this years Advertising and Marketing Summit alongside a nice array of fellow ‘bubbled’ keynoters who are tackling a bewildering range of topics, bulleted below that make lovely Google search strings!:

Unleashing the power of brand experience
The Consumer is King – forecasts and trends of tomorrow’s consumer
Creativity techniques to become an [...]

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Three more of my cross posts from the LAMP Watercooler I write/edit.
1 SOCIAL NETWORKING 101 FOR MORNING TV AUDIENCES
I just captured and uploaded to YouTube a TV show (yes they are still going!) this morning featuring Australia’s leading social network strategist and social network hostess with the mostess, Laurel Papworth - also occasional LAMP mentor [...]

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