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Join me, Nick Wilson, on the Metaversed Podcast as we discuss breaking business and technology news from Second Life and other virtual worlds. Today we look at Chirstian Renauds vision of the future, and pay homage to the Mystitool.

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Join me, Nick Wilson, on The Metaversed Podcast as we dicsuss the day's breaking business and technology news from Second Life and beyond. Today, we talk about the redesign to the site, Anshe Chung, Mitch Kapor on drugs and the arrival of the Wilson Mac!

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Join me, Nick Wilson, on today's as we chew through the days business and technology news in Second Life and other virtual worlds. Today we talk about the media backlash against Second Life, Squawks new feature set and more.

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Join me, Nick Wilson as we discuss Metabrands, virtual world brands unique to the Metaverse. Other than the link above there are no showlinkes today, as I've had a serious of disastrous attempts to get this podcast out!

Join me, Nick Wilson, for today's Metaversed Podcast as we discuss breaking business and technology news from Secodn Life and other virtual worlds. Today we talk abotu Linden's server code restrictions and plans, as well as the scary lego universe trailer!

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Join me, Nick Wilson for today's Metaversed Podcast where we discuss the mad competition in the virtual worlds conference space, dangerous weather and our new partnership with InformationWeek.

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Show Links

• Metaversed Partners with InformationWeek / Dr. Dobb's on Geek Meet Events
• All England SLawn Tennisclub
• 3Dvia Wants to Democratize the 3D Web
• Things To Do: Experiment with 3D Spaces!

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Join me, Nick Wilson, on today's Metaversed Podcast as we discuss breaking business and technology news from Second Life, and other virtual worlds. Today we discuss new world, Vastpark, and the trend toward standalone branded worlds.

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Join me, Nick Wilson, for today's Metaversed Podcast as we discuss the SLCC's new community behavior rules, Coca Cola's release of their trademark to Second Life merchants and other breaking business and technology news from virtual worlds.

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Join me, Nick Wilson, on today's Metaversed Podcast as we run through the latest business and technology news from Second Life and other virtual worlds. Today we talk about the Geek Meet this past Friday, Pownce and sculpted chatterbots!

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When my friend Tish over at Ugotrade started getting all excited over a new tech opening in Second Life I figured it could be something special. When I read her amazingly detailed writeup of the Eolus project, which launches this Friday, I went looking for Eolus McMillan, the project's lead, in hope of grabbing some audio to add to Tish's text. The following podcast will give you the lowdown on what I think is one of the most exciting Second Life tech projects I've seen: An ambitious attempt to provide not only a "think tank" of some of Second Life's smartest folks and top companies, but to also practically demonstrate what the future may hold for 3D immersive environments and our every day lives.

I also had a chance to speak briefly with Tue Torok, who's SL Business Link, which is also today's Things To Do, launches today. You can hear a short talk from Tue, then a lightly edited conversation I had with Eolus McMillan.

This is also the first time I've had guests on the show, so do share your feedback, good or bad!

Join me, Nick Wilson, on today's Metaversed Podcast as we discuss breaking business and technology news from Second Life and other virtual worlds. Today we discuss the Metacrasher project, Kaneva's new credits plan and more.

Show Links

• Is This The Face Of The Metaverse?
• Kaneva's Business Model Revealed
• New Voice First Look
• Steelcase Kick Off Chair Design Competition in Second Life
• Cruxy Empowers Virtual Musicians
• Cyworld Chalks up $80M in 2006
• Stroker's Bed Heads to Court
• Amazon Launches Askville, Mysterious Questville Service Coming
• Rik's Picks for July 4-8
• Things To Do: Automated Sculpties Tool Demo Today!

Questions or comments? Drop them in the box below, or email nick@metaversed.com

On the 4th of July, an excited crowd of Second Life tech heads from the Things To Do group gathered to see a demonstration of some a ground breaking building tool that automatically creates sculpted prims from regular objects. It was a fascinating demo, and as well as the summary and transcript below, you can also hear my thoughts and explanation of the process on The Metaversed Podcast today by hitting the play button above.

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Join me, Nick Wilson for today's Metaversed Podcast. The podshow that brings you business and technology news from Second Life and other virtual worlds. Today we discuss the Eolus project opening on Friday, and the mysterious case of the disappearing sheep post!

Show Links

• Eolus.ch
• SLCC Circles Drain as Resident Outrage Continues
• New Tool Benchmarks Second Life Server Performance
• Automatic linux viewer installs
• Download the Hipihi Interface English Translation
• Eolus - A Big Leap Toward 3D Internet
• The best texture resource ever - Robin Sojourner & Texture Tutorials
• Virtual World Conferences
• Mysteriously missing sheep post
• Second Life Wimbledon Video Posted

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Join me for today's Metaversed Podcast where I talk to the Second Life musician at the heart of the SLCC row, Slim Warrior about the situation Second Life musicians have been put in and the future of the "community" event.

Show Links

• Contract? Don't sign it!
• Trion Bags $30 Million For Multi Client Virtual Worlds Service
• Web3DCamp To Kick Off 11th August in Second Life
• Geek Meet Goes Voice Today!
• Supernova Videos Available
• Things To Do: Second Chance Trees
• Graph of Second Life’s Feted Inner Core
• Panel Discussion on Second Life Stock Exchanges
• WILLIAM GIBSON COMES TO SECOND LIFE (Updated)
• Linden, PayPal subpoenaed in ‘John Doe’ case
• Mobile SL Stuff
• Text100 to bring Manpower to Second Life

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Join me, Nick Wilson, on the Metaversed Podcast as we discuss breaking business and technology news from Second Life and other virtual worlds, today we talk about virtual retail, SL podcasts and theirs just too much crap around.

Show Links

• Metaversed Geek Meet: Panel Discussion on Second Life Stock Exchanges This Friday
• Virtual Retailing Not Ready for Prime Time
• Work Continues On Mixing Reality
• PS3's Home Virtual World to Have Mobile Tie-Ins and Social Networking
• Microsoft Sells US$125 Million In Virtual Goods
• Retooling and redefining Secondcast
• Secondcast needs its second wind?
• Virtual Flora Politics or Can't See the Brand Forest for the Griefers' Trees
• Cool “swiss army knife” video codec library for QuickTime
• Suzanne Vega returns to Second Life July 13!
• RSVP for July 13 Virtual Event
• Eolus Mandala

Questions or comments? Drop them in the box below, or email nick@metaversed.com

Manpower opened thier new sim in Second Life today. While not the most earth shattering of news in itself, they did host a discussion on virtual work, that we recorded with permission. If you missed the event inworld, hit play! The session lasts about an hour and was very well attended with around 66 people listening to the live debate.

A group of "concened citizens" are about to launch an ambitious plan to bring a courts system into the virtual world of Second Life. Hit play to hear all about it.

In what I hope will become a regular feature, Metaversed author Caleb Booker, aka Onder Skall, joins me to discuss the weeks top virtual worlds stories. The conversation has been edited a little to condense it down a bit, so my apologies in advance for a couple of little audio blips in the stream :)

Overall it was fantastic fo finally get on a podcast with my long time partner at Metaversed, hope you enjoy it!

The following session was recorded live at the our regular Metaversed Friday Geek Meet in Second Life. The panel on Second Life financial exchanges was moderated by Robert Bloomfield of Cornell university. You can read Robert's report, and find out more details here. The recording lasts about an hour, and is part of the Metaversed Sessions series of event podcasts.

Join me, Nick Wilson, on the Metaversed Podcast today where my special guest is Mitch Wagner from InformationWeek, also known as Ziggy Figaro in Second Life. On the show today we discuss virtual world financial exchanges, self appointed regulatory bodies, the Metavese republic and mobile virtual world technologies.

Show Links

• Second Life Financial Markets Panel a "Smashing Success"
• Metaversed Podcast 46 - Real Life Justice Comes to Second Life
• Second Life on the Nokia n800
• Students Create Pocket Virtual Worlds
• Call for Gadgeteers, Toolmakers and Speakers This Friday

If you have questions or comments on the Metaversed podcast, or would like to see stuff covered, perhaps join me even, please do email me at nick@metaversed.com or drop a comment in the box below!

Join me, Nick Wilson, on today's Metaversed Podcast as we discuss the new Greenies sim in Second Life and run through the latest business and technology news from virtual worlds.

Show Links

• Call for Gadgeteers, Toolmakers and Speakers This Friday
• Metaversed Podcast 48 - Earnest People Scare Me!
• Just because my name's Crap, it doesn't mean I have to take it, nor do I fling it around like an idiot
• The Edloe Model
• How Should Ad Agency People Think About Virtual Worlds like Second Life?
• Things To Do: The Q Maze
• EveryScape Taps Users to Determine Next Phase of Development
• FlipPAY-Per-View
• SLBoutique rebuilt and rebranded: July 23rd migration
• A Letter from Phreak Radio
• Getting my geek on....
• Render 3D Objects in JavaScript
• Serious Second Life/Real Life Integrations:
  Spime Wrangling For a Better Planet
• Greenies Project

My apologies for the dodgy sound quality today. Im not sure what went wrong, think I may have been jigging around on my excercise balll a bit too much while talking :)

Join me, Nick Wilson on today's Metaversed Podcast as I talk to the Electric Sheep Company's Giff Constable about the upcoming launch of the new OnRez Second Life web shopping system.

Don't forget, you can catch Giff, as well as a whole bunch of other cool technophiles today at .

Join me, Nick Wilson, on today's Metaversed Podcast as I talk to Joel Greenberg of the Electric Sheep Company about why real life companies fail in Second Life, and the upcoming inworld ad network the company are due to beta shortly.

Show Links

• How Should Ad Agency People Think About Virtual Worlds like Second Life?
• Part 2: How Should Ad Agency People Think About Virtual Worlds like Second Life?

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Join me, Nick Wilson, on the Metaversed Podcast as we discuss breaking business and technology news in Second Life and other virtual worlds. On the show with me today, is Tom Bukowski, an anthropologist working on a new book called Coming of Age in Second Life

Show Links

• Coverup Acusations Surface in Second Life Financial Scandal
• SLEC Responds to WSE Closure: News and Analysis
• UNWIRED
• New Entropia Universe Engine Coming 2008
• 5 Things You Didn't Know About the Upcoming Twinity Beta
• IBM writes guidelines for virtual worlds
• Second Life Scriptors to Get Linden Sponsored Advanced Unit Testing Tech
• Game Operators Receive Anti-Addiction System Warnings
• 10 debug options you should know about
• Metaversed to Podcast BlogHer Sessions
• Introducing Second Rant, New Weekly Podcast with Prokofy Neva!

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The following session is a panel dicussion recorded at the BlogHer 07 confernce in Second Life. Join me, Cybergrrl Oh and Starr Sonic for a pretty cool discussion on virtual media.

Metaversed.com held the first of a new monthly tech showcase series in Second Life last week, called "First Friday". Despite Second Life stability issues, Talkshoe dumping us, some dodgy landline quality and other fun and games, the event was great fun, and the audience, press judged it a great success.

If you missed it, hit play. I've done my best to clean up and edit the audio and the result is a pretty good podcast of the event, minus some of the sound issues we had at the live gig.

Coverage

As is customary at these events, First Friday, which is simply the organized version of our previously occasional 'gadgeteers edition' Geek Meets, we had our fair share of bloggers, and notables in attendance. Here are a couple of links to thier coverage of First Friday. Thanks guys!

• "First Friday" tech gathering a hit - SLNN
• Geek Meet - the Celeb Edition? - MindBlizzard
• i3D Demo at “First Friday” i3D
• Line up and background info

If you covered the event and I missed you, drop me a link in the comments or email nick@metaversed.com and I'll update. If you were at the gig and have questions or comments, please do so in the box below!

Yesterday evening, Metaversed Live, our weekly business and technology talkshow in Second Life was held at the brand new SAP offices courtesy of Craigster Hax. The panel was entitled "Corporate Challenges in Virtual Worlds" and was recorded live on Talkshoe and streamed before the Metaversed group members. The majority of what I know you'll find to be an enlightening, and frank discussion between some of the more prominent companies in Second Life was fueled by questions from the audience. I'd like to thank our guests for their help, it's not fun being talked AT, and we appreciate you guys getting into the conversation with such engaging questions and comments!

Thanks To Our Guests

Thanks to our guests for coming onto the show, they did a great job I reckon..

• Craig Cmehil - Community Evangelist, SAP
• Fiona Gallagher - SL Project Lead, Sun
• Jeff Barr - Web Services Evangelist, Amazon
• Jonas Karlsson - Research Team, Xerox

If you'd like to take part in the live discussions, do join the Metaversed group in Second Life!

On Thursday the 16th of August 2007, Gartner's Steve Prentice came on the Metaversed Live show to defend and clarify the analyst firms position on virtual worlds. Steve hit the headlines twice in recent months with predictions of 80% virtual world usage by 2011, and cautionary advice to companies regarding "open virtual worlds".

"This is not a game, this is not a toy, this is going to be as big as the world wide web"

On the panel this week we had Robert Bloomfield of Cornell university's Johnson School, Fiona Gallagher, Sun Micro Systems lead in Second Life, and Joel Greenberg, VP marketing and innovation for Electric Sheep Company.

We had major audio issues as Skype was down, making it impossible for me to capture the audio and stream it, but the audio has been edited to best of my limited ability, and nevertheless makes for a facinating listen.

Do let us know what you think!

Join Nick and Caleb for our weekly look at the business and technology of Virtual Worlds. In this week's episode we discuss kids games, and Kaneva vs vSide, AWOMO and CityPixel vs FakeTown.

Show Links

• Real Keys Unlock Virtual Worlds Doors
• Doppelganger's vSide Opens Today
• Video: Browser Based Worlds - Exploring CityPixel
• One Step Closer To The Holodeck
• AWOMO Closed Beta Begins

Questions and comments? drop them in the box below...

Join me, Nick Wilson, for a return of the Metaversed Podcast with a re-tracked theme of business and technology in Second Life. Today we look at news coming out of the SLCC weekend and take a tumble from the Cluetrain with Tao Takashi.

Show Links

• SLCC: The Next Step
• SLCC: Business Track Observations
• Was Coke's Virtual Thirst a Virtual Flop?
• Second Life to Integrate Google Search
• Yet Another Tokyo

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Monday 17th September saw the first of several introductory events in the upcoming Metanomics series of events hosted by Cornell University and Metaversed.com - The following is a recording of Metanomics 101 with Prof. Robert Bloomfield explaining the concept of Metanomics, and outlining the 3mt series of live events.

We'll be posting video of event later in the day, but for now, do grab the audio as it makes for a great listen!

On 20th September 2007, IBM, Cornell University and Metaversed.com staged a "tri reality" event in Active Worlds, Second Life, and in front of a live audience at the Johnson School's Sage Hall as part of our Metanomics series of events. Sandra kearney, IBM's head of 3D internet explains the companies role in the Metaverse from this unique perspective.

You can also find the videos, courtesy of SLCN.tv in the Metaversed Archives or in 2 parts on our Blip.tv channel

On October 1st 2007 author Julian Dibbell joined us for a Metanomics session to talk a bit about his book Play Money and his upcoming book about Ludo-Capitalism where play is doing the job work used to.