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Sony and Ohai Bring Social Gaming MMOs to the Masses

With Sony's Sodium for PlayStation 3 and Ohai's game City of Eternals on Facebook, social gaming could bring MMO to the masses.READ»

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Next Generation Interaction: Are Virtual Worlds Waiting in the Wings?

About: This is the revised transcript of the Fast Company.com Call-In titled, Next Generation Interaction: Are Virtual Worlds Waiting in the Wings? that took place on November 2008. Portions of the dialogue have been re-written ...READ»

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Fast Company Call-In Wrap

  Credit Roll A personal thanks to all those who joined the Fast Company.com Call-In on October 28th. And a sincere expression of gratitude to Bruce Damer and Tish Shute for agreeing to take my questions. Finally, my appreciation ...READ»

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Soliciting Questions For Upcoming Fast Company Call-In

I invite members of the Technology Group to post their questions for the Fast Company.Com call-in I’m moderating next week tentatively titled: FC Examines Next Generation Interaction: Are Virtual Worlds Waiting in the Wings? The ...READ»

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A Second Life for Training

Still unsure about Second Life -- the virtual world -- as a tool for helping your business do better? Besides virtual meetings, the platform is also conducive to training. A Second Life for Training is the title of the article ...READ»

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Why You Should Have Your Next Business Meeting in Second Life

Fast Interview: Second Life founder Philip Rosedale talks about how SL is open for business, the allure of virtual meetings over real ones, and why he stepped down as CEO.READ»

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Noted Gartner Analyst Steven Prentice Updates His Predictions on Virtual Worlds

Steven Prentice, the noted Gartner analyst who predicted that by "by the end of 2011, 80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 enterprises) will have a ‘second life’, but not necessarily in Second Life" added ...READ»

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 World of Warcraft has already been proven to be the first MMORPG in the whole world,cheap wow gold which is one of the greatest achievement in the history of computer games. Gamers from all over the world know everything about ...READ»

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Second Life Still Gets Great Press, Even When It's Dying

With the art world imploding alongside the economy, we could all use an inspired feel-good-art-is-still-alive story. But to describe Second Life--which has about 65,000 users logged on at any given time--as the zeitgeist of the art ...READ»

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OpenShaspa: Energy Management in a Virtual World

Want to manage your energy consumption by playing a video game? The OpenShaspa Home Energy Kit aims to do just that, by letting you oversee energy management in a virtual world. Shaspa's kit, which is constructed from ...READ»

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A Second Act for Second Life, as an Urban Planning Tool

Second Life's passe right? Maybe not. Two MacArthur-grant geniuses use it to help average citizens design their own communities.READ»

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Second Life Finds its Second Life as a Tool for Virtual Workers

Say what you like about virtual world Second Life--it just keeps spinning on. And now it's getting an official enterprise offshoot, which companies can run on their own server for virtual, corporate, uh, fun. There's even going to be ...READ»

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Are Free to Play games better than pay to play ones?

For a long time, pay to play games like World of Warcraft and Warhammer Online were considered untouchable, but as it stands the MMORPG market is evolving. More and more free MMORPG games are being released every week while only ...READ»

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World of Warcraft, or WoW, is a new Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game, from Blizzard. WoW has become the #1 played game of all time, in any genre, on any system. Why? Because it is incredibly addicting!READ»

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How to Make Money From the Web

If you are looking for how to make money, I would tell you that there are a lot of ways to make money really. For instance you can make money with a video. I know of a company that would pay you to do a view review. Isn't that ...READ»

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IEEE Virtual Reality Conference

Kent Quirk says the future of office meetings lies in Linden Lab's Second Life. The aptly named Quirk, a speaker at this Waltham, Massachusetts, gathering, may be biased: He's a developer at the lab. But it has been trying to make ...READ»

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Second Life Community Convention

Though it might seem counter-intuitive, the Second Life Community Convention hosts a real-world meet-up for participants in SL’s virtual world. Grappling with issues like “how can virtual reality make us healthier?” and “real ...READ»

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Sam Raimi's 'World of Warcraft' Movie, By the Numbers

Activision Blizzard has announced that Sam Raimi will direct a film based on the hugely popular World of Warcraft online role playing video game. Raimi will be directing his fourth Spider-man film first, so don't expect WoW on the big ...READ»

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Boomtown: The Real Money Behind Virtual Goods

Virtual goods, such as avatars and Facebook gifts, are attracting major brands, celebrities, and venture capital. The money is real.READ»

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Small Worlds' virtual world blows away Second Life limitations

You've seen Second Life, right? That was the virtual world that got a lot of hype about two years ago. It was very cool, but it had some significant limitations. First it required a download so wasn't easily embeddable into a web ...READ»

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Susan Wu, Cofounder and CEO of Ohai

The U.S. virtual goods market will jump 60% this year to $1.6 billion, and analysts estimate worldwide annual revenue could reach $10 billion -- the equivalent of Hollywood's 2009 box-office earnings. Founder of online-gaming firm Ohai, Susan Wu knew that virtual goods (products that exist only online) made real money, and she went after the digital wares like a hot commodity.READ»

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The Barbie Bubble

When I finally cleared through the crowd of technology reporters at the press preview for Digital Life ­-- the largest consumer electronics show on the East Coast -- I saw the booth causing the buzz was Mattel. Besides hand-held ...READ»