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Virtual Realities – Second Life Going Global

On Wednesday, I met with Ginsu Linden (a.k.a. Ginsu Yoon – photo on the the left from Joi’s Flickr stream) to talk about Second Life’s global role. Ginsu Linden is Linden Lab’s vice president, business affairs – generally overseeing international market development, business and corporate development, and developer programs. Ginsu was in Asia when we […]

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The Level Playing Field:
From Web 2.0 to World 2.0 and Virtual Life

Fizik Baskerville (a.k.a Justin Bovington) says: “Web + TV + Print + Virtual Worlds = Powerful” This week Virtual Life and World 2.0 entered a new era with Destroy TV and virtual lifelogging in full swing, and the opening of the Sky News sim on Second Life. Sky News launched with a live event and […]

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The Mixed Reality Metarati and “Destroy TV”:
Merging Art, Technology, Politics and Play

The Mixed Reality Metarati came out to the Fuse Gallery/GHava{SL} Center for the Arts for the launch of Destroy Television Wednesday night. This ten day mixed reality interactive virtual/real “lifelogging” is an independent, art world foray from Jerry Paffendorf and Christian Westbrook of Electric Sheep Company, with collaborator and curator Annie Ok. The MindBlizzard Blog […]

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