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Designing Lifestyles For 2020 in Second Life

The Philips Design Second Life Team have put out what must be one of the coolest invitations on the planet. They are asking Second Lifer’s to share in designing the future. The Co-creation Experience is intended to be a journey over time that we hope to take together with the ‘Philips Design Friends Group’. The […]

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Thinking Globally, Connecting Virtually:
Anshe Chung Makes a Home for Non-profits on SL.

Anshe Chung (picture from Rik Riel’s Flickr stream) spoke live from China at the grand opening celebration for the new Non-profit Commons island in Second Life. Anshe expressed her passion for using virtual worlds to connect globally. Anshe Chung is SL’s first millionaire, a global metaverse entrepreneur, and donor of the island and buildings that […]

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Social Web Music, Global Change,
and “the web as a virtual world.”

I met with Ansi Orochi (a.k.a. Ansgar Schmidt, Lead Architect, Virtual Worlds, IBM Research and Development) on Sawubona on Second Life to ask him the question: “What Are The Most Important Characteristics of Web 3D?” Sawubona, is in a very early stage of development – the first official press release isn’t due for a month. […]

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