Dress A Linden Please Help

John Mahon just shared this. Humor with some language: 555-Dress-A-Linden Please Help.

(What’s even more fun is recognizing some of the pictures!)

MetaMeets Internet Conference Opens Registration

“The MetaMeets 2010 Internet Conference opens just as the 2009 movie “Avatar” has introduced the general public to the idea of virtual environments. The conference, like the movie, is a bridge for people to see what’s possible in a way that begins to draw them to virtual as well as real life. The conference will be available May 7th-8th in both Live and Virtual formats.”

HIGHLIGHTS:

Brand marketing in virtual environments

I attended a presentation last week called “Can Branding work in Second Life®?”  The presentation was sponsored by a work group focusing on brand marketing in virtual environments.

When I first joined the group, I thought of “brand marketing” in terms of ads from the 1950’s like “The Crest Kid.” Brand marketing seemed kind of corny and old fashioned – more to do

Avatar!

The movie Avatar is a spectacular introduction to the idea of virtual environments.

A friend who knows I work full-time in the Second Life® virtual environment told me the following:

“I went to see the movie, ‘Avatar,’ and I kept thinking about you! The idea and the effects were spectacular. The movie is a bridge where the public can really begin to see what’s possible in virtual reality. It’s where people begin to sense, ‘Hey! This is

World Wide… Webinar!

I just tried a “Verio OnDemand Webinar” and liked it. It was convenient, timely, free, and lasted exactly one hour.

The webinar covered Marketing Tactics and was sponsored by Verio web services company. It was simple and it worked. 

At the appointed time I

The World In 4D

It’s all “4D” – space and places, plus time and activities.

In my company tagline, “The World In 4D,” the “4D” indicates Time as the Fourth Dimension. This interpretation was formally presented in 1907 by the mathematician Minkowski, building on Einstein’s Special Relativity theory of 1905(1).

In practice, “4D” means

Solution Provider Exposition

New project starting this month: Solution Provider Exposition. This is a follow-on to last year’s Solution Provider Conference, held online for developers specializing in Second Life®. This year’s exposition will be open to the public and will complement Linden Lab® outreach.

Highlights:
. The Exposition is an online 3D trade show.
. People may

Music Licensing Article

Nice article just up by Teddi Shamrock on, “Music Licensing – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”:
http://freeplayvl.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/music-licensing-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

Teddi owns and operates a Denver real world pub featuring live musicians, including SL artists such as Jax Streeter. Teddi traces the development of Copyright Law from 1790 (George Washington!) to 1909 (Inclusion of Music) to present day.

New Year

“And it is this moment, my friends,
When you must look away,
As the world unfurls anew
In shapes announced both bright
And sordid, in dark and light
And the sprawl of all existence
That lies between.”

Epilogue, Midnight Tides, Steven Erikson, 2004

Five Principles of Successful Operation of Themed Social Networking Sims

These are based on experience with Second Life 3D Web Sims. Glossary and Research Links are available.

Five Principles of Successful Social Networking
1. People entertain people best.
2. Theme is, in the best sense of the word, an excuse to get people to come together at