MTV to Open Virtual Laguna Beach in There
World of SL is a new project by SL resident Tao Takashi (who’s also a contributor to 3pointD’s Flickr group) that aggregates all the SL blogs Tao can find (and there are a lot of them). Slightly...
View ArticleSecond Life CTO Flags Upcoming Changes
The closing keynote talk at the Second Life Community Convention this past weekend was given more or less in tandem by Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale and Chief Technology Officer Cory Ondrejka. While...
View ArticleMTV the Next MySpace?
An interesting article in MediaWeek wonders whether MTV Networks might have plans to build a MySpace-like social network out of various properties it’s acquired lately, including things like Xfire and...
View ArticleMTV’s Virtual Laguna Beach Parties On
Virtual Laguna Beach, the virtual world built for MTV using There.com‘s technology, is still running slightly under the radar. But that isn’t stopping MTV from putting on some parties in their...
View ArticleVirtual Laguna Beach Goes Live, Gets Neighbors
MTV’s Virtual Laguna Beach, the virtual world tied to its hit TV show, gets its official launch this Wednesday, according to an article in The New York Times. The article also reports that MTV plans...
View ArticleLaguna Beach to Air First in Virtual World
An early model of Virtual Laguna Beach built out in Second Life Good news, metaverse fans: This week’s episode of MTV’s eye-opening reality show Laguna Beach will premiere not on television but in the...
View ArticleWild Griefer Wins There.com
Well, the There Film Festival, anyway. Check out “Wild Griefer,” the winning entry, by There.com resident Francis_7. The film is a five-minute music video based on a song by the same name, written by...
View ArticleVirtual World Tax Debate Gathers Steam
I spent Friday and Saturday at the joint State of Play / Terra Nova symposium at the New York Law School. There was a lot of interesting talk, but probably none more so than the panel on taxation and...
View ArticleVirtual Concert Available on MTV’s Urge
It’s audio file day here at 3pointD, apparently. This is a kind of cool thing forward to me by a friend: young indie-emo-whatever-rockers Cartel, who’ve been featured on MTV’s reality show Laguna...
View ArticleIs the Metaversal Category-Killer Dead?
Raph Koster flags an Escapist article in which Allen Varney covers “boutique MMOGs” and the fact that they can not only be profitable but can garner significant niche audiences in a similar manner to...
View ArticleMTV’s Virtual Hills Pushes 3D Social Networking
As noted here, MTV is expanding its virtual world, Virtual Laguna Beach, to incorporate Laguna Beach spinoff show The Hills. (Read more about MTV’s virtual world initiative and how it came together in...
View ArticleSXSW Xcript: Where the F is Mapping Now?
Dan Catt’s mapping panel was a very cool session that was difficult to synthesize at the speed it went by, but I think I got most of what the panelists said. All very 3pointD. Moderator: Rev. Dan Catt,...
View ArticleVirtual Worlds 07 Audio Files Now at RezNation
If you missed the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference, don’t worry: now you can close your eyes and it’s almost like you’re there. John Swords has now posted most if not all of the audio files of the...
View ArticleThere.com Landowners Get Weather Controls
Landowners in the virtual world of There.com got new control over the weather at their plots yesterday, according to the company. As of yesterday, “all members owning zones, neighborhoods or property...
View ArticleVirtual Goods Summit: Why Virtual Goods Matter
Nabeel Hyatt of Conduit Labs moderated a panel on Why Virtual Goods Matter, and What’s Driving User Adoption, at the Virtual Goods Summit at Stanford University. Panelists: Craig Sherman of Gaia Online...
View ArticleJoin the Visionaries at Virtual Worlds 2007
I’m off Monday for the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference in San Jose next week (online registration ends tomorrow! see below), where I’ll be moderating what should be a very cool roundtable on the future...
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