Metaverse08: Jean Miller (Linden Lab) about Understanding the Business of Virtual Worlds
by Christian Scholz on May 28, 2008
Jean Miller’s topic was businesses in virtual worlds and in particular the statistics, the hype cycle, how Linden Lab is taking a look at the product and how they are trying to provide that to the public. The basics: It’s (…)
Metaverse08: Markus Breuer über Usability in virtuellen Welten
by Christian Scholz on May 27, 2008
After showing a bad example of usability (Mac didn’t want to connect to beamer) and an introduction of the Otherland Group which Markus dived into the topic of virtual worlds usability (one thing he mentioned though that while they created (…)
Metaverse 08: Nic Mitham (KZero) and an overview about virtual worlds
by Christian Scholz on May 27, 2008
Nic started with some definitions: Registered accounts – awareness metric Unique accounts – ‘cleaner’ awareness (individual accounts) Active accounts – engagement metric (everone who was logged in in the last month) Concurrent accounts – live metric (users logged in at (…)
Metaverse 08: Fiona Gallageher about Sun in Second Life
by Christian Scholz on May 27, 2008
Fiona Gallagher started the Metaverse08 and was talking about Sun Microsystem’s experiences with Second Life. She started with saying that it’s not a cookie cutter solution. There are many issues involved with using virtual worlds (esp. Second Life) today. Sun (…)
Tear down the Walls: Webinale/Metaverse 08
by Christian Scholz on May 27, 2008
Today the Metaverse 08, the last german metaverse conference left. And I will be part of it even twice: on a panel today, tuesday 13:40 – 14:35 (where at the moment I seem to discuss with myself, might be an (…)
Frankreich gewinnt den Eurovision Song Contest 2008
by Christian Scholz on May 25, 2008
zumindest für mich ;-) Hier mal das Video zum Liedle: Für mich hat Frankreich das ganze ironisch genug genommen ohne dabei ins Lächerliche abzugleiten, die viele andere Länder. Wirklich gewonnen hat aber son 08/15-Popsong aus Russland.Technorati Tags: eurovision, france
Small Worlds Beta
by Christian Scholz on May 24, 2008
Today I received my beta invite for Small Worlds which is a virtual world running in your browser. I thought I share some screenshots of the signup process with you, so here we go: 1. Choose your base avatar: 2. (…)
Plone Books!
by Christian Scholz on May 23, 2008
Today I got a book, but look for yourself: (or click this link if you cannot see the video) Technorati Tags: plone, books, seesmic
The good and the bad of engaging with your community
by Christian Scholz on May 22, 2008
Today I noticed two blog posts regarding Twitter, one good, one bad. On the good side, Twitter seems to start communicating with their users to inform them what they are doing behind the scenes to improve the service. As you (…)
Script Time: convert a Second Life chatlog to Confluence Wiki Markup with Python (Technical)
by Christian Scholz on May 18, 2008
Today we had yet another meetup of the DataPortability Group in Second Life and we mainly discussed why discussing ownership brings us nowhere. Instead Steve Greenberg, who joined us talks about his view on rules on usage and licenses instead (…)