Archive for the year 2009

Virtual World Goods Worth Billions in the New Year

Posted on 31. Dec, 2009 by .

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According to the BBC: Virtual goods such as weapons or digital bottles of champagne traded in the US could be worth up to $5bn in the next five years, experts predict. In Asia, sales are already around the $5bn mark and rapidly growing. As one venture capitalist noted “We have seen companies go from nothing [...]

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Another Virtual World 2010 Prediction

Posted on 31. Dec, 2009 by .

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Here is a number of interesting predictions for virtual worlds done in a nice and interesting SlideShare presentation Virtual Worlds 2010+ View more documents from KZero Worldswide. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and GadgetsRecommended Games and GadgetsRecommended BooksContent Guide

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Round Up of Some Virtual World Year End Predictions

Posted on 29. Dec, 2009 by .

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With the recent news of layoffs at Forterra Systems and the closing of Metaplace covered in Not a Good Week for the Virtual Worlds Space, there have been a number of discussions around the topic. See ProtonMedia’s take at If Forterra Systems and Metaplace have sparked a virtual world industry shakeout, the question is: Who’s [...]

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Great Year End ReCap

Posted on 28. Dec, 2009 by .

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This time of year there are many recaps of blog postings and reflections on the “year in blogs.” One good site to check out is ASTD’s Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for December. It contains a number of great postings about what bloggers have learned this year. Another great year end post was done by [...]

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Happy Holidays to All

Posted on 25. Dec, 2009 by .

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Talking About the Time it Takes to Develop One Hour of eLearning

Posted on 24. Dec, 2009 by .

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Recently, I spoke with Rich Parris at Standard Imagination about an article I updated for ASTD Learning Circuits called Time to Develop One Hour of Training. For the update, I worked with BU Instructional Technology alum Robyn DeFelice of DishingDesign to update the article. In fact, she and I are working on some more juicy [...]

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A Few More Alternatives to Second Life

Posted on 23. Dec, 2009 by .

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With all the bad news in the virtual worlds space this week (read Not a Good Week for the Virtual World Space), I wanted to point out that many healthy 3D virtual immersive environments still exist and more are coming on line daily. Here are three more virtual worlds to explore Blue Mars Hanging out [...]

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Not a Good Week for the Virtual Worlds Space

Posted on 23. Dec, 2009 by .

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First, Metaplace announced it will be closing its virtual doors on January 1, 2010 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time. This was one of the alternatives I listed for something other than Second Life in my Alternatives to Second Life (continued, again) I described Metaplace as: Is a Flash-based virtual world platform that allows players to [...]

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Facebook Fan Page Create for Learning in 3D

Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by .

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Created a Fan Page in Facebook for Learning in 3D and then created this nifty badge. Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and CollaboraPromote Your Page Too Check it out and become a fan:)__Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and GadgetsRecommended Games and GadgetsRecommended BooksContent Guide

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Co-Author Speaking at 3D Life Science 2010 Event in Malvern, PA

Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by .

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On January 19th, 2010. Tony O’Driscoll (my co-author and partner in 3D) will be presenting at an event co-sponsored by Microsoft and ProtonMedia. The event will be moderated by a top life sciences industry personality, and will feature several surprise guests, the panel will discuss how pharma organizations are using innovative (some would say radical) [...]

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