The Business & Social Network

January 2009 Blog Posts (26)

What is a corporate website and How organizations loose there brand value through there corporate websites ?

“We have spent a million dollar in putting that website there” I have read & heard these “intelligent” arguments by some very senior executives of some very popular brands.

I have a humble suggestion to them- DUDE WAKE UP !

If spending money can get you the results then all the so called brand guru’s will start selling candy floss. Before i start making a delicious breakfast for these “corporate saviors’ let me just answer some basic question.

What’s a… Continue

Added by Suhel Khan on January 31, 2009 at 6:21am — No Comments

We Won the Red Herring “Top 100 Global” Award!

OmniDate won the Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies Award, recognizing most promising technology companies in the world that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation. Past winners of this prestigious award included Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Salesforce.com, and YouTube. This is a terrific validation of our technology and business concept.

Added by Ravit on January 29, 2009 at 2:40pm — No Comments

Blog?

Remember the truth Neo.
There is no blog.

Added by BETLOG Hax on January 28, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Our website has been updated!

We have updated our website so that images are easier to browse.

Hive Media

Added by Will Weaver on January 28, 2009 at 2:05am — No Comments

Jan 31 Retro Fright Night - House on Haunted Hill 1959

Join Us Saturday Jan 31 on ReactionGid Tarzan Sim 4pm PST - 7pm EST - Midnight GMT

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

http://network.associationofvirtualworlds.com/events/retro-fright-night-saturday

Vincent Price gives a stellar performance as the suavely malevolent host of a "haunted house party" who offers his guests $10,000 if they can survive a… Continue

Added by RobinG2 Proto on January 24, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

OpenSim Grids Review

http://imohax.com/opensims/ for a review on several OpenSim grids.

Added by G2 Proto on January 23, 2009 at 11:40am — No Comments

Social media stands out at Tattoo Show - Applies for Virtual Events too...

Singapore - 15,000 people showed up at the inaugural Singapore Tattoo Show, a figure three times more than expected, thanks to some clever marketing on social media platform phenom Facebook.

The three-day convention, held on 9 January at Singapore Expo, was organized by Kirby Lian who appointed Pacific West Communications to handle the marketing communications for… Continue

Added by Andrew Peters on January 19, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Understanding Computer Technolgy

It seems that there are more terms than thought in the world of today.

Added by Tom Merilahti on January 19, 2009 at 4:01am — No Comments

Self Organising Systems

SELF-ORGANIZING-SYSTEMS (S.O.S.)

Watch a large flock of birds in flight in the city. It is a liquid mass of self-propelling feathers. The flock swoops, dives and turns on a mark, before

settling en masse on another roof.

Who gives the orders? Which ex- dinosaur says; ‘Turn right at the plane tree, lads’? Nobody. A flock of birds has no leader. A shoal of fish has no leader.

Who directs your… Continue

Added by Tom Merilahti on January 19, 2009 at 3:30am — No Comments

SICU MUSIC

SICU MUSIC's leading artist: LamieLa is a multitalented artist and a singer who really use her creative freedom to cross borders in order to create new artistic ways to express herself. For more information check the discussion forum hereunder and her profile page.

TOM

SICU MUSIC is a… Continue

Added by Tom Merilahti on January 19, 2009 at 3:00am — No Comments

Windows 7 beta praise on Verizon Aircard install

I really thought I was in CDMA modem hell - for 3 days now I have been running round in circles trying to get my Verizon wireless aircard to work in my laptop which I installed Windows 7 on.

I uninstalled it and reinstalled probably 20 times - uninstalled the VZ Manager software too at least that many times until I was about to wipe out my laptop and reinstall Vista when I made a minor mistake and hit restart instead of shut down in preparation for the Vista install.

And when I did… Continue

Added by RobinG2 Proto on January 16, 2009 at 9:59am — 2 Comments

Chrome Underwood to exhibit Second Life art in Berlin

The first exhibit of my new body of Second Life artwork will be exhibited in Berlin, Germany through the month of March. Following the opening event at the Austrian Embassy on Saturday, January 30th, the exhibit will be exhibited at the TowerVisions Gallery in Berlin and at its virtual counterpart in Second Life. The show is being curated by Bernd Betzl, an architect in Berlin and founder of Planufaktur and TowerVisions Gallery. He is also known… Continue

Added by Mick Brady (Chrome Underwood) on January 15, 2009 at 4:33pm — 1 Comment

event: Doing Business in Virtual Worlds

Multiple Worlds; Multiple Lives; Multiple Identities; Multiple ways to making money.

In conjunction with NUS Entrepreneurship Week, TDM brings to you “Doing Business in Virtual Worlds”. Step forward on 20 January 2009 to find out more about TDM and how you can be a part of it, as we present to you a quick overview of the organization AND a little preview of what it means to do business in Virtual Worlds.

Programme Details:

14:00-14:30 TDM Welcome… Continue

Added by Andrew Peters on January 14, 2009 at 6:51am — No Comments

Ichumon - Virtual Pet Site - "A Splash of Imagination at Your Fingertips!"

Ichumon is a fun filled and entertaining virtual pet site that opened up in August of 2008. It has already amassed 7800+ users, 2800+ items, many fun flash games, Personas(Our term for Human Avatars), a every expanding RPG Battle Explorer, Councils and loads more! We are sure that most people will find a little something to keep them coming back for more! Ichumon prides their self on having the best 2D art around and is always coming up with new feature to make your time on Ichumon for… Continue

Added by James on January 13, 2009 at 3:09pm — No Comments

it’s hard to stand out - not so at AVW - go platinum

t’s hard to stand out ? not so at AVW - go platinum on AVW - Association of Virtual Worlds and enjoy international virtual & real recognition that will drive your busines development strategies immediately.

You don’t need to be Linden Labs or redlightcentre.com or facebook or even war of warcraft to make your mark on what is still an emerging yet strong and progressive industry !

The AVW is where virtual worlds, games, social networks, and those who wish to explore the… Continue

Added by Andrew Peters on January 13, 2009 at 2:57pm — No Comments

Your Social Media Journey Begins Here

So how many times have you tried to convince your friends and colleagues that they should be on Twitter or LinkedIn? Are you the person making the rounds in your office showing everyone Second Life and trying to convince them of the benefits of virtual worlds. I know I am one of those people shouting the benefits of Web 2.0 from the rooftops. And I share in everyone's frustration because even though people seem to understand and "get it," they never make that final step to actually… Continue

Added by Pam Broviak on January 12, 2009 at 4:42pm — No Comments

Next weeks Retro Fright Night Jan 17th

We have already chosen and posted the movie for next week. The crowd chose Bucket of Blood from 1959…

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Added by RobinG2 Proto on January 10, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Hoping to Load Test Tonight

OK folks! Calling all who want to help me load test not only our grid at ReactionGrid but to test my streaming media server. Saturday 4pm SLT on ReactionGrid we will be having a movie night - part of the goal of movie night is to load test by trying to pack in as many people as we can and - well - how do I put this? - try to crash the servers.

We need to find the limits to be able to expand but I need your help to do this.

And if we don't… Continue

Added by RobinG2 Proto on January 10, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Trying to test a Travel Virtual World (FREE T-SHIRT is involved)

We have just launched www.tripshows.net

I need people to test it and fill it with initial content. This is a travel social media site. I need people to upload travel videos, pictures and make comments. I need people to invite others to join. Really test it out.

I'm going to give a free t-shirt to the firs 20 people who sign up as well as an additional shirt to the top 5 rated videos (that way you don't have to be in the top 20).

Just send a private message to… Continue

Added by Dan Lovy on January 9, 2009 at 12:25pm — No Comments

TDAQC Group Forms on ReactionGrid

http://reactiongrid.com/TDAQ.aspx is a new AVW group to discuss how to flow real world data from machinery, databases and more, into virtual worlds.

In addition we will focus on control systems that allow you to change how systems operate in the real world from within the virtual space and how we can also have those same real world machines control actions inworld.

This group will meet each month to discuss how we can all… Continue

Added by G2 Proto on January 9, 2009 at 11:04am — No Comments