After one of my friends in SecondLife, Opal Lei, asked me if I’d seen OpenLife and I had to say no, I decided to take a look. We at the ISM have been talking for years about finding if not an alternative, at least an adjunct to SecondLife, since having all our IP eggs in [...]

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I got an email this morning from Goldie of Machinima by Silver & Goldie, producers of the machinima that has been at the center of the controversy here for the past week. She gave me the link to the newly revised video that replaces the one shown to the House Subcommittee. She apologized again for [...]

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Following the comment on this site from Catherine Smith, Marketing Director at Linden Lab, apologizing for the mistaken impression left by the voiceover in the video shown to the House Telecommunications & Internet Committee, I’ve been contacted by Goldie of Goldie and Silver, the company who produced the machinima. They are replacing some of the [...]

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The response to my previous article is the most activity this blog has seen yet. But I do need to make some clarifications, and highlight at least one thing that has happened as a result of the brouhaha.
First, I should not have made it sound as if I thought Linden Lab’s misattribution by allusion of [...]

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I was just watching the video of Rep. Ed Markey’s committee hearing yesterday about virtual worlds, during which Philip Rosedale (CEO of Linden Lab, creator of SecondLife®) and others testified. Rosedale showed a machinima that included images of several parts of the International Spaceflight Museum (ISM), of which I am a co-founder and CEO. That’s [...]

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I laughed at this so hard I cried. Or maybe I cried because it’s so to the point!
Thanks to Universa Vanalten (SL name) for this link.

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An interesting online-only conference starts in a few days:

While their claim to be the only online conference is a bit inaccurate, it still seems like a worthwhile way to spend some time for those of us interested in the development of the metaverse.

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I was just following some links found in advance slides from an NCOIC conference that’s taking place on Feb. 26th in Denver, when I clicked a link in one of the sites and stumbled across information about a project New Media Consortium (NMC) has announced. They are embarking on a 2-year collaboration with Sun Microsystems [...]

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The Virtual Worlds preservation workshop at Stanford, funded by the Library of Congress’ NDIIPP, is over now. Partner institutions besides Stanford are University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Maryland and Rochester Institute of Technology. I attended via Skype conference call with text chat on the side, augmented with a dynamically-updated Google Doc page where [...]

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After the Metaverse U conference for the past two days you’d think I was ready to take a rest or maybe get some real work done, but no! Today and tomorrow I’m participating (remotely, via Skype conference call) in a workshop with some of the same people at Stanford. This time, we’re working with the [...]

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