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Category: Virtual Communities

  • Children’s charity checks in to Habbo Hotel

    While the focus this week on virtual communities has been on Second Life, with news of developer Electric Sheep’s $7 million tie-up with CBS and others, here’s news of one organization’s plans for another virtual community. The UK children’s charity…

  • Being social in New York

    A brief respite from work yesterday with a very pleasant few hours of conversation over lunch with Shel, Rob Safuto and Dave Rimington at the Bryant Park Grill here in New York City. I’ve known Rob (extreme right in photo)…

  • Wherever you look, there’s Windows Vista

    New York City was the place to be last night to get a sense of what Microsoft is calling the most signficant product launch in the company’s history. This was the global launch party for Windows Vista and Microsoft Office…

  • Second Life’s accelerating growth

    Logging in to Second Life earlier this morning, I noticed in the grid status information that the number of registered users has now passed the three million mark. The growth in numbers of people who are registering an account to use…

  • Sweden to open embassy in Second Life

    The government of Sweden plans to open an embassy in Second Life. News from Swedish friend Fredrik Wacka says they’re investigating how to build a 3D copy of the Swedish embassy in Washington. Formal negotiations have started with the architect…