Category: Virtual Communities

  • FIR in Second Life

    We’ve just set up shop in Second Life, the virtual world where there’s already a growing community of podcasters. The FIR Shop is located on the ground floor in the Podcasters Mall on Podcast Island. If you’re a member of…

  • Get a Second Life now

    I participated in a very interesting meeting yesterday evening. Shel was due to be there, too, but he couldn’t make it to the venue. I did bump into Joseph Jaffe who was there and met Mitch Joel for the first…

  • European expansion for MySpace

    MySpace.com, the online social network, is often a topic I include in presentations and workshops about social media and social computing. The context is on the growth of cybercommunities and, in the case of MySpace.com, its rapid and growing appeal…

  • Reflections on the ‘Radio FIR’ Skypecast

    So we did our Grand Experiment yesterday – recorded show #142 of the FIR podcast as a Skypecast. And it was a great experiment. Shel did a terrific job as MC and chief DJ, manipulating the Skypecast control panel, muting/unmuting…

  • The BBC’s Second Life

    This weekend, the BBC is broadcasting One Big Weekend, a live rock concert from Dundee, Scotland. Giant screens in various UK locations enable anyone there to enjoy the happenings from Dundee. Not only in the real world, though: The BBC…