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August 2008 Blog Posts (59)

SECOND LIFE’S LARGEST TELEVISION NETWORK SLCN.TV PARTNERS WITH MONOGRAM VIRTUA TO BRING VIRTUAL HEAVY HITTERS TOGETHER & PARTY AT VIRTUAL WORLDS EXPO

SLCN.TV, along with help from Monogram Virtua, has put together some of the biggest players in Virtual Worlds to network at an after-party during the Los Angeles 2008 Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo. The party is at the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica. Monogram Virtua’s co-founders Randall K. Rubin and Harold Whaley, SLCN.TV’s CEO Gary Wisniewski and Executive Producer Keren Flavell, PayNova's Vice President of Products and Marketing Karl Alberts,… Continue

Added by Anakalia Catteneo on August 31, 2008 at 11:36pm — No Comments

MellaniuM at Danish Virtual Worlds Workshop.

Mellanium

Danish Virtual Worlds Workshop

Interview with Joe Rigby (from Canada), the Marketing Manager of MellaniuM Ltd which is based in Preston, UK.

Joe played “Everquest” and “World of Warcraft” for a few years when they first came out and he have been fascinated by the possible educational… Continue

Added by Ken Rigby (Tele3DWorld/MellaniuM/InterVerzaL) on August 31, 2008 at 6:53pm — No Comments

Home Health Care Returns! OpenSim running on SQL Server on Windows Server 2008 enables it securely...

Here we have OpenSim running on the very same hardware as the website that manages the web admin in the previous post, Live Meeting and any other desktop or web application you would like to integrate your world with. Windows Server 2008 is recommended by many OpenSim developers due to it's memory management and native .NET environment.

Our client PFH is aquiring new Dell laptops for patient use to allow for secure, in home one on one… Continue

Added by G2 Proto on August 30, 2008 at 5:30am — No Comments

Ad Nauseam Cartoon: Reach - "The Spot"

Episode 3 of "Reach"

Added by Christopher Simpson on August 29, 2008 at 9:16pm — 2 Comments

Second Life - Monogram Virtua Sponsors 1st Annual Writers Convention and Fundraiser in Cyber Space

Monogram Virtua Charities, a division of Monogram Virtua is proud to sponsor the 1st Annual Writers Convention benefiting the Alzheimer’s Association. The event will include seminars, workshops, and live entertainment performances by various Second Life (SL) residents. Hundreds of supporters from both the cyber and real worlds are set to arrive in SL August 30th to listen and participate at the Monogram Virtua Convention Center (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Monogram%20Tria/78/131/22) located on… Continue

Added by Anakalia Catteneo on August 29, 2008 at 3:25pm — No Comments

Sneak Peek at one possible management tool for OpenSim, Live Maps and Second Life virtual worlds.

Below represents a typical login sequence for a simulator administrator:

Step 1-Login via the optional Windows Live ID system. In order to use this system an anonymous ID is given to the administrative SQL Server database. There is a standard login as well separate from Live ID. OpenID will soon be supported.

Note-Click to enlarge any image. Some data has been grayed out for privacy.…

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Added by G2 Proto on August 29, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

World War 2 Technology and Speculation Mirrors Today's Technology R&D & Fuels Future Visions

I would like to point out some really cool thoughts and people who have also imagined a future where your life is logged digitally is possible and even probable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex . Vannevar Bush the subject of the aforementioned link makes a case similar to my previous post but at a time with a far lower level of technology.

Now zip forward to today and look here… Continue

Added by G2 Proto on August 29, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments

Age Of Conan Review, part 1 - levels 1 to 34

Greetings all,

I have posted a review of the MMORPG Age of Conan on my website. Please feel free to send your comments, questions, etc.

http://noltegames.com/blog/?page_id=3

Enjoy and thanks for your time!

David Nolte

Added by David Nolte on August 28, 2008 at 3:22pm — 1 Comment

A future where your Avatar grows with you from Birth

You know the box people keep trying to think outside of? I'm about to light the box on fire and then acid bath the ashes. Future concept coming!

Some assumptions:

1-The brain stores your memories and somehow manages your real-time thought process based on memories and your current state of mind.

2-This memory will likely be one day able to be read by computer systems or something we created beyond the definition of computers today. They easily could be considered soon… Continue

Added by G2 Proto on August 28, 2008 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments

The Ad Nauseam "Famous Last Words" Game

Being able to concisely convey a message is one of the primary objectives of writing in general, and promotional writing in particular. In this contest your challenge is to come up with the famous last words of some person, real or fictional, which not only befits his or her character, but also implies the nature of the fatal incident.

Here are some examples:

"What's that beep-beep-beeping sound?"

Oscar the Grouch

"Wait a minute - that's not an… Continue

Added by Christopher Simpson on August 28, 2008 at 12:03pm — 6 Comments

Lively Group A Good Tipper

Are you brand new to Google's virtual world?

Take advantage of this series from your peers in the AVW Lively group:

Lively Tips: Part 1 of 3

And drop… Continue

Added by Gary Arthur Douglas II on August 27, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Are people afraid of virtual worlds?

Some random thoughts:

* not much V W presence in corporate environment and I think we know why - there needs to be a system in place to accommodate large tasks of log in creation, installations, troubleshooting

* I know this is a new technology and sometimes it is hard to 'sell' and when I say sell I don't actually mean for monetary reward I mean to convince others of the benefits.

I find I have the same conversations over and over again about how virtual worlds can benefit… Continue

Added by RobinG2 Proto on August 27, 2008 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

ReactionGrid launches new Business and Education based world "Trylon & PeriSphere"

We are close to inviting a first round of beta testers to our new virtual tradeshow concept based on the 1939 World's Fair. Christopher our "message" guru has given the latest www.trylonandperisphere.info World's Fair effort a thumbs up on clarity though we have much more work to do.

I would like to thank Christopher in this public forum for… Continue

Added by G2 Proto on August 27, 2008 at 7:30am — 1 Comment

Ad Nauseam: Jingles that jangle, jingles that sing

The following is a reprint of the Ad Nauseam column which appeared in the August 26, 2008 edition of the Metaverse Messenger

“If you’ve got something to say,” David Ogilvy once advised, “then say it. If not, sing it.”

Okay, so the great advertising guru wasn’t what you’d call a “fan” of the jingle, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have their place. As we noted last week, jingles have been a staple form of marketing…

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Added by Christopher Simpson on August 26, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

~Sadie Made~

Sadie Made is my own original artwork from RL brought into the virtual world. I am trying it out to see what the response would be to my work. I agree everyone has their own style and taste in art so I know that this is not for everyone. They are images created from within my imagination, brought to life through my sketches, paintings and drawings. My art is an expression of myself. Nothing more. None are copied and all are mine. Please check out my shop. Maybe you will find something there… Continue

Added by Sadie Pippita on August 25, 2008 at 5:30am — 4 Comments

Embedded GIS REScue System-EGRESS

EGRESS is an application I have been considering for years after seeing a story of 6 firefighters perishing in an arson fire when teams could not find them to lead them out in time. I also have experience on fire-rescue teams being a member of the Nuclear Source HAZMAT team onboard AS-34 USS… Continue

Added by G2 Proto on August 24, 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments

AUgrid's new grid servers online

DNS is still catching up but the grid servers are on new hardware and faster network. This should help load balance more and reduce any latency when using the grid servers. The edu area is also now on this server as well as parkland and openspace which should result on lower latency in these sims also.

If you still cannot see the login page or web page, try flushing your dns and try again. the correct grid server ip is 66.197.247.214.

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Added by Norgan on August 24, 2008 at 1:04am — No Comments

Ad Nauseam: "Reach - The Miracle"

Episode 2 of "Reach."

Added by Christopher Simpson on August 22, 2008 at 5:31pm — 3 Comments

A practical, proven scenario for enterprise ROI with 3D tools-Original post www.thinkbalm.com

As a former Test Engineer at a well known aerospace firm where I worked before forming G2 with my wife Robin I had the opportunity to develop applications and processes that ultimately improved our factories throughput and hence the bottom line was also improved. I have several cases to cite in this forum the first of which started with my initial job which was electrical test of components, the final step before shipping…

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Added by G2 Proto on August 22, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments