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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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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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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1 Mixed Reality Killer App
OK a ‘give us your comment’ competition. Below an oldie but goody clip from CeBit 2006 but what do you think is the main killer application for this particular synchronous interface? - (no sneaking ideas by reading the hundreds of comments on it’s YouTube page!).
2 iPhone Home

Above ‘me browsing the lamp [...]

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“Mixed Reality is the merging of real world and virtual worlds to produce new environments where physical and digital objects can co-exist and interact in real-time.” Wikipedia

“I think we are really approaching a perfect storm, a mixed reality perfect storm, because we are seeing several things happening. The first one is a long history of [...]

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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, talking to those who use them and creating branded environments that have more usage than any others inworld, [...]

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or thirteen non-exhaustive tips for organisations considering becoming stars in the new web 3.0 revolution…
I have mentioned before that I am currently working on a couple of major and one or two minor media companies first forays into the metaverse, or its most accessible incarnation Second Life. I can’t talk about them directly of course [...]

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OK yet another post on Virtual Worlds, I know, but I will get round to Joost and YouTube TV channels and so on soon. Being involved as designer/developer in several Australian launches into Second Life in the next couple of months I am sensitized to entertainment or service brands entering virtual spaces and in the [...]

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I was on a Portable Content Symposium panel last night “Content with your content? How the convergence of media is changing everything we know”. A fellow panelist Ean Thorley (Exec prod at MTV Australia) briefly referred to a new MTV virtual space Laguna Beach - when we started talking about the impact web 3.0 on [...]

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Thanks to my friend Brian Seth Hurst for sending this to me and for almost single handedly changing the way Emmy Awards, for one, recognise emerging and I suppose emerged media. This article in LA times is one step on from my posts back in April about the first International Emmy Awards in Cannes - [...]

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