Virtual Worlds Overview

Some of the students in my Working in Virtual Worlds class recently submitted an extra credit assignment where they had to pick a virtual world and make a short video providing an introduction for a noob audience. These are the first few i have received. Habbo Hotel Furcadia World of Warcraft Club Penguin This extra […]

Metaverse U and me

Metaverse U was a fantastic conference/workshop  that i attended last week at Stanford. I planned on adding my notes here but I don’t think can add anything that hasn’t already been said and aggregated at technorati + metaverse U  My course syllabus was quoted in an article titled A Disruptive Technologyin University World News in January. I stumbled upon the link while […]

Cory Ondrejka Leaves Linden lab!!!!

Mitch Wagner of Information Week Reports that Cory Ondrejka has left Linden Lab He has a link from Moo Money who has posted the text of emails sent from Philip Linden to LL employees. Momey Moo’s blog post is titled, Was Cory Linden fired, or did he quit? A few updates have been posted and […]

W00t W00t

W00t W00t, “W00t” is the Merriam-Webster word of the year. W00t is being used more and more frequently in Second Life. Where i have seen the biggest growth of the word has been at educational events. Last year people would simply use a clap animation or a “/me nods” animation to indicate agreement or appreciation […]