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Mashing Up Virtual Worlds With Web 2.0 and Online Gaming

16. October 2008

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The curtains are lifting between Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0, and online gaming. There are many indications of this in the news including, the rebranding of the Virtual Worlds Conf. and Expo in New York City as “Engage! Expo – 3D Web, Virtual Worlds, and Virtual Goods,” and Google’s Lively opening up an API for game [...]

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Rob Smart, IBM: ‘Web 2.0 to OpenSim Made Easy’

29. September 2008

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Web 2.0 surpasses all previous technologies in its ability to “explicitly leverage network effects” (a definition of Web 2.0 from Tim O’Reilly). But, while virtual worlds pass another classic litmus test of Web 2.0 – two way participation, they have been, up to this point, largely cut off from Web 2.0 power/network effects. Persistent immersive [...]

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Philip Rosedale:
Open Source, Interoperable Virtual Worlds

26. September 2008

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Metanomics host Robert Bloomfield interviewed Second Life founder and Chairman of the Board, Philip Rosedale, at the Second Life Community Convention in Tampa, Florida.  The Rosedale interview is available here (pictures above are Philip Rosedale and his avatar). Rosedale talked about Linden Lab’s long standing commitment to open source and open protocols in one segment [...]

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