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The Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.08
Round-Up Anybody else suspect his aides knocked up the avatar a few minutes before the meeting to make the politician look hip, groovy and down with the orcs? Rosedale, appearing in both physical and avatar form, outlined some of the steps the company takes... [04 Apr 2008]
QuickTime flaw could fuel Second Life stealing
News They could have linked their malicious code to attributes of an avatar's hair, clothes or anything else. In the demo, the researchers were able to show that their avatar became infected when it came too near the pink box. [18 Feb 2008]
Virtual tech will 'kill the office'
News But if in fact I could walk up to the virtual support desk and meet the avatar of the virtual support person which would then find somebody in the company that has the right skills to actually help me that could become of great value. [31 Jan 2008]
Photos of the month - August 2007
Photo Here an avatar attempts to withdraw virtual money from the Smartbank system found on IBM's company island in Second Life. This image shows a web mash-up called 'Find Me Some Wifi', which takes worldwide wi-fi hotspot data and plots area where you... [31 Aug 2007]
Five virtual world security worries for business
News It's difficult - if not impossible - to ensure that any avatar is the real-life person it claims to be, according to Garter. Click on the links below to see pictures of some of the many real-world businesses that have set up outposts in Second Life. [09 Aug 2007]
Photos: IBM lifts the lid on web 2.0 tech
Photo Here, a shopper's avatar is able to show how the materials from the website appear when used in Second Life. IBM has been showing off some of the tech at its research and development labs at Hursley near Winchester.silicon.com went along to take a... [07 Aug 2007]
Second Lifers on their best behaviour?
News Lanier's other theory is that seeing people, even in the form of an avatar, evokes empathy. IBM has 5,000 employees in Second Life, and according to Wladawsky-Berger, "virtual worlds are a godsend for meetings". [02 Aug 2007]
Photos of the month - July 2007
Photo See what else is on the company's virtual island and how your avatar can do the shopping in our recent photo story. Book publisher Penguin joined the Second Life party this month by running a series of events in the virtual world for the launch of... [27 Jul 2007]
Photos: E-tailer Iwoot opens Second Life shop
Photo Pictured is an avatar in the Second Life store. Visitors send their avatar to the store, select a product and take it to the virtual counter where the avatar pays in Linden Dollars. Other features include a 3D maze within one 'o' building where 100... [12 Jul 2007]
Photos of the month - June 2007
Photo Pictured is silicon.com's avatar taking a walk around the virtual Renault F1 garage. The ING Renault Formula One team has opened up an island containing a race circuit within Second Life's virtual world. [27 Jun 2007]
Photos: Inside the Entropia Universe
Photo The Asteroid was named 'Club NEVERDIE' after the owner's avatar and contains 1,000 apartments, a shopping mall and stadium for virtual sporting events. Above an avatar hunts a virtual animal. Pictured is an armour-clad avatar. [26 Jun 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: I, Avatar
Comment For example, at a recent press conference a mysterious avatar tried to befriend me but I ignored him. Should your IM avatar or image be a sensible business representation or a photo of your cat? I had no way of knowing he was one of the people I'd... [19 Jun 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Wary of wikis? Cynical about Second Life?
Comment Find out how many have posted a clip to YouTube, or have a Second Life avatar or a MySpace account. These days there's a lot of discussion about how consumer tech trends and web 2.0 affect businesses. [14 Jun 2007]
The hard reality of virtual world litigation
Comment He even created his own avatar and held virtual town hall meetings in Second Life where he discussed the purchase of virtual land. The defendants, Linden Research and CEO Philip Rosedale (PDF), operate a multiplayer role-playing game set in the... [14 Jun 2007]
Enabling Personalization Services on the Edge
White Paper This paper describes the implementation of a prototype system named Avatar and presents some experimental result in this paper. Second, since the personalization work is distributed to an overlay network of edge servers, it greatly improves the... [09 Jun 2007]
