Category: Business
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Meta-Mole: To Boldly Go(ogle) where no Search Engine has Gone Before
The Metaverse… the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of Search Engine, Meta-mole. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly google where no search engine has gone before. OK the folks at University of Teeside will probably not be calling to get me to…
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User Engagement in Virtual Worlds Still Growing
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 of the film ‘The Mission’ As well as the increase in venture capital investment across all virtual worlds, the time spent in them, measured in user…
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Global Investment in Virtual Worlds
…and a little end of 2008 Virtual Worlds, State of Play… it has been suggested several times recently that games & social virtual worlds especially will really suffer in this economic downturn and may not survive. Which leads to the point of this post to put things in a little perspective. IS THERE REAL INVESTMENT?…
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Virtual Worlds 2008 Video Tour
As part of a commercial report on the evolving range of social virtual worlds I recently ventured into fifty plus worlds to sample the creative, business and educational potential. My video is an indicative capture of each world/environment as a seven minute video for 2008 posterity. It demonstrates how ubiquitous, popular and streamlined many of…
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How Companies Can Be Social in Virtual Worlds
. Virtual Worlds Necessitate Corporations Develop Personality followed by Gary’s top 15 tips to becoming human in the metaverse (and 2D socio-nets). I have been doing a lot of work moving brands, properties and companies into Second Life recently and in the process I am often forcibly reminded of the divide that naturally exists, in…
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Talk Transcript: Opportunities in Disruptive 3D Social Worlds
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…
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13 tips Companies Engaging with 3D Worlds
or thirteen commandments for organisations considering becoming stars in the new web 3.0 revolution… Originally posted here on one of Gary’s other blogs personalizemedia. 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…