The Business & Social Network

August 2009 Blog Posts (24)

Template virtual world (or freemium) business model, spreadsheet included!

Want to know how virtual worlds make money? What are the hosting and moderation costs? How to balance paid customer acquisition against viral growth? And how all these variables interact?

Then check out this post, and download the spreadsheet.

Matthew Warneford

Added by Matthew Warneford on August 31, 2009 at 11:54am — No Comments

Vernissage- Opening, SAS Bunker Art Gallery, Thuesday 25 August 2009

Inauguration of the new Gallery Pirats SAS3D : Bunker, Tuesday , august 25 at 1:00pm SLT where for the occasion Pirats exhibit until September 19 :

- Gleman Jun - Loup Erin

- Got Pizzaro

- kate Debevec

- Maryva Mayo

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Added by Newbab Zsigmond on August 29, 2009 at 9:14pm — No Comments

Screencast: mini tour around the Virtual Worlds area on Shambles.net

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Added by Chris Smith on August 28, 2009 at 12:06pm — No Comments

New Website Studies Policy Implications of Virtual Worlds

Pixels and Policy (www.pixelsandpolicy.com), a new website and blog dedicated to the study of how virtual worlds impact real-world policy, politics, and culture, opened its virtual doors today.

Pixels and Policy, the brainchild of former U.S. Congressional Legislative Fellow and Asia Chronicle Staff Writer Max Burns, draws on Burns’ experience as a long-time researcher and user of virtual worlds and his academic and professional international relations experience.

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Added by Max Burns on August 26, 2009 at 10:19am — No Comments

How much does it cost to moderate a virtual world?

We're now onto the less exciting part of our business model, costs. In this post we'll develop a model for estimating how much time (and money) you can expect to spend moderating, supporting, and keeping your community safe. While this post is focused on virtual worlds, by tweaking the numbers it can be applied to any online community.

Read the full post… Continue

Added by Matthew Warneford on August 23, 2009 at 2:28pm — No Comments

Web.alive at the feeding edge

Epredator's blog saya it all

http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2009/08/18/web-alive-its-looking-good-to-me/

MellaniuM

Added by Ken Rigby (Tele3DWorld/MellaniuM/InterVerzaL) on August 21, 2009 at 1:43pm — No Comments

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

Hundreds of performances

on platforms and theaters

traveling medicine shows

today, one of Hamlet’s players

working a stage within a stage

It feels so small

fourth wall a monitor

players halt and jerk across the screen

nearly a puppet show

but no wires or strings

through the magic glass

To act virtually

act with half your skills

tied behind your back

voice and bandwidth ply your trade

To act… Continue

Added by Caliban Jigsaw on August 19, 2009 at 9:02am — No Comments

Pirats Opening - 2009-08-18 Vernissage Omega

Opening of Omega Art Gallery on Tuesday August 18 2009 from 1:00 pm SLT, 22h00 FR, that will exhibe until september 12, 2009 works of: - Daco Monday - Shoshisn Shilova

- Rose McIntyre

- Mitch Shelman

- Cadel Aboubakar

- Ub Yifu

- Yvonne Bourgoin

- Herodias Soulstar

- Casta Oh

- Elle Ellsmere

- Feathers Boa…

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Added by Newbab Zsigmond on August 18, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

New Installation at Untold Ark Gallery SL

New Installation at Untold Ark Gallery SL

Added by Mitch Shelman on August 17, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Roobaab Immersive Meetings demo video available

I've posted a demo video of Roobaab, a new collaboration tool I've been working on for a while. The system integrates a really nice content management system for communities and teams with a 3D meeting space. I'd love to know what you think!

I'd also be interested in maybe hooking the 3D tools up to this commuity, so we could meet as easily from here as you now can in Roobaab :-)

Added by Neil Canham on August 16, 2009 at 8:31am — No Comments

Your business plan needs hosting costs, start by modeling your virtual world visits per hour

Your virtual world hosting costs are driven by the peak number of visitors per hour; you need enough server hardware to cope with this maximum volume of traffic.

Using the spreadsheet developed in this post you'll be able to estimate your peak visits per hour, page views per second, and therefore the hosting costs for your business… Continue

Added by Matthew Warneford on August 15, 2009 at 2:58pm — No Comments

Siscont Empresarial

Added by Juan Javier León on August 15, 2009 at 11:34am — No Comments

SIAF - Sistema Nacional de Tesorería

Added by Juan Javier León on August 15, 2009 at 11:33am — No Comments

Excel Financiero

Added by Juan Javier León on August 15, 2009 at 11:32am — No Comments

5 reasons to use Second Life as a media platform

Filming a live broadcast program for the internet where people can log in from all over the world and participate is riskier than Formula 1 race car driving, so agreed Richard Bartle, the father of the MUD.

It is very rewarding, and I am breaking the virtual ceiling with it, as my show every Tuesday night, The 1st Question attests. It is an increasingly popular weekly phenomenon. Giving people rewards for engagement is a trend likely to continue as you win peoples hearts and minds… Continue

Added by Pooky Amsterdam on August 12, 2009 at 8:45pm — No Comments

Vernissage Opening Pirats Bourbon White Velvet Art Gallery 2009-08-11

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Added by Newbab Zsigmond on August 11, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Pirats Art Network on Second Life

As a Nonprofit association, founded by Merlina Rokocoko & Newbab Zsigmond, dedicated to promote Art and creation,

PiRats is an independent artistic numerical network.

Its name refers to the 18th century’s Piracy in the sense of a free society, and sets the question of promoting Art in a little bit provocative way. Pirats doesn’t encourage hacking, but tries to promote Artists thanks to new technologies.

Today, Pirats mostly uses Second Life©,

a fantastic… Continue

Added by Newbab Zsigmond on August 10, 2009 at 12:15pm — 1 Comment

In a WORLD'S 1st Virtual Singapore launched in conjunction with Singapore's National Day Celebrations

In a WORLD'S 1st Virtual Singapore launched last evening in conjunction with Singapore's National Day Celebrations - live streaming of the nation's REAL parade streamed into virtual singapore and around the world via twinity... will your city be next to join the twinity metaverse - will your city be able to reach to those not at home so that they may too enjoy your celebrations via twinity, as if at home - itsReal

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Added by Andrew Peters on August 10, 2009 at 2:19am — No Comments

Virtual Singapore now open in Twinity

Orchard Road

Singapore, 4 August 2009 – Metaversum, developer of Twinity, the virtual world made of real people…

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Added by Illka Gobius on August 5, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Welcome to Virtual Singapore We're OPEN

Virtual Singapore now open in Twinity

Orchard Road

Twinity, the world’s first mirror world, is launching virtual Singapore – Twinity’s first city in Asia – on August 9th. Wanted: Online pioneers from all over the world to come together and bring this metropolis to life!

Singapore, 4 August 2009 – Metaversum, developer of Twinity, the virtual world made of real people and real places, is launching virtual Singapore on August 9th with… Continue

Added by Andrew Peters on August 4, 2009 at 8:21am — No Comments