Business, Communication, Technology
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I’m watching with great interest some of the social media communication Dan Light is involved with as part of the marketing for Watchmen, a movie about American superheroes based on a DC Comics series, due out in the UK on March 6.
Directed by Zack Snyder – who directed 300, adapted from a classic Frank [...]
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A news item Shel and I discussed in FIR #390 yesterday was a report in the Wall Street Journal’s Technology Blog about a partnership Linden Lab, the developer of Second Life, is announcing this week with Rivers Run Red, a developer of content, applications and tools for virtual worlds like Second Life:
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Does Second Life now officially support Windows Vista?
According to the Second Life wiki, the answer is no.
The wiki page in question, last updated on October 2, still says Vista is not supported:
[...] Officially at this time (2007-08-27), not yet [...]
Second Life actually works fine running on Vista. That’s my experience, and that of many [...]
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With social networks like Facebook and MySpace in the news a great deal, I find it interesting to get a sense of the depth of behind-the-scenes business planning going on and the role of PR in that planning.
According to BrandRepublic:
Facebook hunts UK agencyA dozen UK PR agencies have been approached by Facebook as it sets [...]
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Yesterday I signed up for a credit card that I could use in Second Life. Today the approval came, so watch out virtual shops!
The credit card comes from First Meta, a financial services firm based in Singapore, that has just launched the MetaCard.
Three types of card, in fact, as the image above indicates. I [...]
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Just taken a flying visit (literally) to the venue in Second Life where you can visit PodCamp UK this weekend.
Make a note – http://slurl.com/secondlife/Booville%202/67/171/29
About 120 people now signed up to be at the event in the real world, at the NTI in Birmingham.
I’ll be there from about lunchtime on Saturday.
See you there, RW or SL!
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Since earlier this year, my home in Second Life has been this rented office at Limitless Worlds.
That’s about to change imminently as I received notification late last week that Limitless Worlds has been sold and the Limitless group is being disbanded. Everyone has to vacate by August 31!
It’s a shame as Limitless Worlds has been [...]
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So businesses don’t think Second Life is worth investing their time and money in?
Tell that to Dentsu and the financial community in Japan.
The Japanese advertising firm is launching ‘Virtual Tokyo,’ a virtual megalopolis that will open its doors tomorrow August 24 in Second Life.
A report in the Financial Times says Dentsu is hoping to glean [...]
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It seems that you can’t pick up a magazine or newspaper these days without seeing lengthy articles that focus on the negative side of Second Life.
The latest comes from Time magazine in a feature last week.
Reality is catching up with Second Life, says the magazine in its article entitled Second Life’s Real-World Problems.
Like others [...]
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One of the great things about RSS readers, and FeedDemon in particular, is how they enable you to see what’s going on in your areas of interest easily and quickly.
So in the space of 20 minutes or so this morning, I’ve got up to speed in most of the business, communication and technology areas that [...]
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