Comments on: Twitter + Second Life = Spontaneous Web Meetspace

By: The Podcast Network Blog » Blog Archive » TPN Second Life on TechCrunch today

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:01:56 +0000

[...] wrote about his recent experiences at TPN’s HQ in Second Life today which is worth a read (link). It includes this screenshot of a spontaneous meetup we had a few days [...]

By: Sonia Says… » Command College links

Sonia Says… » Command College links — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:34:57 +0000

[...] Lest you think it’s all games, know that companies including IBM, Cisco and Amazon are now using Second Life as a corporate collaboration space– check out this conference from TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007.....meetspace/ [...]

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Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:36:55 +0000

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By: TPN :: GDay World » Blog Archive » Podcamp Perth 2007 - final impressions

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:15:12 +0000

[...] And the more I thought about that issue over the last couple of days, the more the ideas which Duncan’s post a month ago started in my mind have been taking more [...]

By: Man with no blog - » Taking Second Life to the Masses

Man with no blog - » Taking Second Life to the Masses — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:07:23 +0000

[...] so the tech sectors of business are now exploring Second Life as a central virtual meeting place as Duncan Riley points [...]

By: Second Life gets an infusion « Nighthawk21’s Weblog

Second Life gets an infusion « Nighthawk21’s Weblog — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:12:02 +0000

[...] http://www.techcrunch.com/2007...../#comments [...]

By: Eric Rice

Eric Rice — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:23:49 +0000

The Electric Sheep Company is about to release their own version of the client and it has an actual interface! (SL has the worst UI of anything I’ve ever used).. I believe it will be launched around the CSI/SL thing.

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/.....sing-.html

Also, for the haters, there are like 30 virtual worlds now, so hurry up and upgrade your digg-worthy peanut galleries beyond SL. Don’t forget that other industry built on fake stuff like Banshees and Needlers.

By: Cameron Reilly

Cameron Reilly — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:38:50 +0000

@iHero concur with Karl. I’m running SL on Vista. Been working for a few months.

@Karl - come to TPN HQ. The whole purpose is to create a friendly atmosphere for our audience to experience SL. You’ll be most welcome.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Conway%203/127/155/22

By: Karl Herber

Karl Herber — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:39:08 +0000

My experience with Voice in SL has been sadly disappointing: the few times I’ve turned it on just to see what it was like, my speakers were assaulted with a barrage of bad language and sexual explicitness.

@iHero: SL does work on Vista now, I know players who use it, I think Lindenlabs are simply saying that it’s not supported yet so they don’t have to provide tech support. The near-impossibility of getting any kind of tech support for SL is in my opionion, its biggest drawback, and the biggest obstacle to major corporate participation.

By: Rob_Bank

Rob_Bank — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:35:45 +0000

Second Life - Virtual Worlds. What a turd.

This ‘meeting up’ business will surely never be as efficient as either:

(a) Video Conferences - almost as good as meeting up.
(b) Meeting up - First life style.

Second Life is to Webcams what those hilarious ‘now turn the page’ online magazines are to websites.

By: Creating in SecondLife : DPE Australia

Creating in SecondLife : DPE Australia — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:25:04 +0000

[...] Duncan Riley from Techcrunch posted his thoughts on meeting in SecondLife, especially the new voice/talk interface and the intersection of methods of interacting with each other. [...]

By: Michael Wilson

Michael Wilson — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:27:18 +0000

There.com has had voice since 2003.

By: Kenneth Holland

Kenneth Holland — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:42:29 +0000

I support this merger as long as I don’t get hit by flying penises that abound in SL.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:21:50 +0000

This is how we will hold our board meetings next year!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: NathanaelB

NathanaelB — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:15:06 +0000

I ended up at the SL TPN HQ last night after getting sick of everyone twittering about it and wanting a piece of the action. Never really “got” SL - never managed to get off Orientation Island, but with help through Twitter I managed to end up at the right place and get set up. Didn’t have a mic, so couldn’t contribute to conversations - but all the peeps using mics were kind enough to also respond to my chats - either using audio or text chat.

But I still feel weird about using voice chat in team fps games …

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:01:34 +0000

VRWorkplace is developing a workplace in Second Life. Eliminating distance within global workforces and remote workers. As a former outsourcing exec (US/India) this would have helped me tremendously.

By: Kashif

Kashif — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:51:32 +0000

Next time IT bubble bursts, all tech companies will transcend to second life.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:48:09 +0000

You’re right Duncan, you guys have been harsh about Second Life!

But seriously, the whole corporate interest thing might not have worked out the first time around, but it did provide for some interesting experimentation, that will no doubt bode well for future developments.

I personally think that 3d worlds like Second Life and There are edging towards a point where they’ll either merge with or integrate into micro-blogging services and social media & social networking venues.

It’s a paradigm our primitive brains seem to be most comfortable with…

By: frosty

frosty — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:11:19 +0000

Here is another interesting take on this topic:

http://www.informationweek.com.....nd_li.html

By: The Grid Live

The Grid Live — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:08:55 +0000

Second Life News for October 11, 2007…

New ‘Second Life’ viewer adopted by CBS’ ‘CSI’ The Virtual World conference got off to a quick start this morning when The Electric Sheep Company, a leading developer of corporate projects in Second Life, announced that it…

By: iHero

iHero — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:07:02 +0000

This is a great social capability. Interesting that Vista isn’t supported yet in second life. The ramifications of a new operating systems….how it makes a great deal of work for so many smaller companies.
So is anyone going to buy Windows XP from Microsoft and continue to support it?
I always hated upgrading the whole operating system.

By: datter

datter — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:49:58 +0000

“… the sad truth being that this year Second Life has provided a range of tabloid fodder that we’ve seen fit to print.”

This is the internet. You aren’t printing a damned thing.
oh wait, I’ve been banned from TC, sorry I forgot.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:49:07 +0000

I work in the videogame space, and the people I work with and myself often do something similar. Whenever we need to have an impromtu meeting with more than just a couple people, rather than going to the trouble of setting up a conference call, we’ve found its faster, easier, and cheaper to just all hop into an online game via Xbox Live.

We can talk through whatever work issues we need to talk through, but also casually race a few laps, or whatever the case may be. Works really well.

By: phenom

phenom — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:32:19 +0000

Even companies like Cisco enjoys it a lot for virtual meeting on SL.

http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

By: videoman

videoman — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:36:51 +0000

You are mistaken. Voice is wildly popular in SecondLife. Huge percentage of active users.