Tag: Habbo
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The Browser as Virtual World Final Frontier
As I have mentioned on many of my blogs (especially Personalizemedia) virtual worlds (as 3D navigable spaces) will only really take off when there is an effective, easy to use, existing web browser implementation. We already have early entrants here such as Yoville, Vivaty, NewLively, Habbo etc: but these suffer as they are not particularly…
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Extending Entertainment Into Virtual Worlds
I have talked a lot about Mixed Reality Entertainment on my media blog personalizemedia and how one of the most innovative uses of virtual space is to extend the TV or Film property into a 24/7, participatory environment. The reason for doing this is to drive traffic to the TV or Film but also to…
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Advertising & Marketing for Social Virtual Worlds
A presentation I gave last month at the Online Networking and Business Collaboration conference. This is one of twenty or so I did on a similar topic (engaging with virtual world inhabitants and game players) through 2008. The presentation broadly looks at 4 key areas The Actual Audience – who they are, what their demo…
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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…