Filed under: Computers One day, someone will teach a college class on the sociological implications of 'Second Life.' In a place that so perfectly, yet whimsically, mirrors the real world, there are bound to be things that peak the interest of anyone with even a passing curiosity in human nature. On...

IBM and other companies have made a great first foray into the virtual space. But virtual worlds have yet to prove their full potential business value. Note the self-expression vs. value of context conversation fits. Five reasons enterprise virtual worlds currently fall short with respect to busines...

There is a fine line between business value and self-expression. Or perhaps a very deep and wide chasm. And Mo effectively begins to articulate the problem (or opportunity) when explaining the relative virtues of a "create it as you go" virtual world vs. an off the shelf, retrofitted "first person s...

It's not been a good month for Sony. Layoffs, poor holiday sales for the PS3 and a wee bit of hacking over at PlayStation Home surely have the electronics giant hungry for some good press, which has made the newest PR kerfuffle over at the nascent online service quite unfortunate. According to Ars T...

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I have been looking at ways of making virtual meetings easier, more effective and fun. As part of that I have looked again at secondlife, and one of my new correspondents pointed me at "The future is virtually here". This, despite being published last August, and while containing two fun s...

When I first saw this book on Amazon.com, it was hard to control myself. The name is an obvious rip-off of Asimov's 'I, Robot' - and yet the rest of the title did seem of worth. I sent off for it and have just finished reading it. This was a difficult book for me to review. The author starts off exp...

Secondlife Gimmel Tammuz Farbrengen This past Sunday was “Gimmel Tammuz�. (the 3rd of the Hebrew Month of Tammuz). Gimmel Tammuz is the day in which the 7th Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, left this world 14 years ago. The Chabad custom for Gimmel Tammuz is to spend the day in...

On a complete impulse buy, earlier today I picked up the install DVD for City of Heroes at Big Lots. At least one person on Twitter thought it was odd that I would be involved in such a thing when I’ve gone on record as being underwhelmed by things like Second Life. My problems with Second Lif...

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