The Metaversed Podcast

Join us for the reboot of the virtual worlds podcast as Nick Wilson and Caleb Booker discuss the week's virtual worlds business and industry stories. This week, HiPiHi in the news, and a look at Philip Rosedales promise of stability for Second Life in 2008.

Join Nick Wilson and Prokofy Neva on the Second Rant Podcast as they discuss the recent Virtual Worlds conference in San Jose, and the Electric Sheep Companies bid to bring CSI fans into Second Life and the impact that could have on resident businesses.

Join Nick Wilson and Caleb Booker for the Virtual Worlds Podcast as we discuss the weeks business stories including the $1bn invested kerfuffle and phoning inworld.

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• Second Life Readies Havok 4 Physics Engine
• A Full Day Of Technical Troubles In Second Life
• Reload Julian Dibbell
• Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
• When Is A $Billion Not A $Billion?
• Metaverse Market Index Explained
• SLCN Goes Corporate
• Virtual Business Spotlight: How RDV Animations Moved 2000 Units in just 3 Months
• Phone Calls From Second Life

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Join Nick Wilson and Prokofy Neva for the Second Rant podcast. On this weeks show we take a look at the convoluted system of bug tracking, power and corruption in Second Life and ask the questions: Why can't we just say no? Is there any such thing as "user error"?

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.

Join Nick Wilson and Caleb Booker for this weeks' Virtual Worlds Podcast as we talk about the hot issues in 3D for the week and explore a few mad rambling tangents along the way.

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• SAP Second Life Launch Plans Revealed
• Google Spooks in Virtual Worlds: Forterra Scores Investment from US Intelligence VC's
• EmTech's Second Earth Panel Hints at 3D Future
• Europeans to Pay "Virtual Added Tax" in Second Life
• Metaversatality Survey

Join Nick Wilson and Prokofy Neva on the Second Rant Podcast as this week we discuss community management, the Linden forums, rules for blogs, comments, backchat during inworld meetings and moderation or lack thereof.

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

Join Nick Wilson and Prokofy Neva as they discuss Linden Lab's plans to scale Second Life, the virtual world economy and speculate on just what may be behind Raph Koster's Metaplace.

Show Links

• The First Architecture Working Group Meeting
• Questions for the Metanomists
• MetaPlace
• Join or Die
• Transcript of Zero Linden's office hours

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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!

Join Nick Wilson and Caleb booker for this weeks Virtual Worlds Podcast as we discuss the weeks top stories, and spotlight some very cool technology we'll be using at the upcoming Metanomics series of events.

Show Links

• SLtk Pro
• Feds And Lawyers In Virtual Worlds
• Intel CTO To Speak On The Rise of the 3D Internet
• Intel Buying Havok
• Cisco's New Virtual Environment is a No Fly Zone for Business
• Cornell University and Metaversed Launch The Metanomics '07 Event Series -

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Join Nick Wilson and Prokofy Neva on the Second Rant Podcast. This week we look at the recent mixed reality event in the City of Mexico and discuss philanthropy and wealth in Second Life. As an experiment, we've allowed this weeks podcast to go on for longer, and to ramble a bit -- some of our best conversations have been off-air, after the show, and we wanted to see what you thought of a looser style. So do let us know!

Join me, Nick Wilson, and Metaversed news editor Caleb Booker on this weeks Virtual Worlds Podcast. We talk about developments with project metaversed, and round up the weeks virtual worlds happenings in detail, including the upcoming Vastpark beta.

Show Links

• Project Metaversed
• Vastpark about to open a swath of beta accounts
• The Other Grid
• Reloading September's First Friday Tech Expo
• Grid Safari

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Join me, Nick Wilson and Prokofy Neva, as we talk about Linden Lab's plans for SecondLifeGrid.net, griefing attacks on the Second Life mainland, and burst into spontaineous song on this weeks episode of the Second Rant Podcast.

Join Nick Wilson and Caleb Booker for this week's Virtual Words Podcast, everything you need to know about virtual worlds in one show! This week we discuss Project Darkstar, Stagecoach Island, Novoking, HiPiHi and more.

Show Links

• Five Things You Didn't Know About HiPiHi
• Anyone Wanna Buy A World?
• Darkstar released - load distribution
• NovoKing
• vSide is cool, but they tricked me...
• Grid Safari

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On thursday at 12 noon this week, the Metaversed Live show covered the ID verification debate in front of a live audience in Second Life, and Talkshoe.com - On the show this week were Navillus Batra, Cybergrrl Oh, Craigster Hax and Susan Reynolds.

Join Nick WIlson and Prokofy Neva on Second Rant as Prokofy analyzes the weekend's SLCC convention. Is SLCC doomed? Does it need to be split into separate conferences? What happened to the cool kids?

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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.

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• 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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Join Nick Wilson and Caleb Booker for the Virtual Worlds Podcast. This week we discuss vaporware in virtual worlds, hipihi, Philip Rosedale's keynote at SLCC, and wonder where exactly the 1,000,000$L prize money for the CK IN2YOU contest has disappeared to...

Show Links

• HiPiHi Global Strategy - Standardize, Interact, Develop
• Second Life Record
• VWRN.net
• Life4U
• What Is Conduit Labs?
• Voice Events to Get Easier in Second Life
• The Threat in Insider Dealing in Virtual Worlds
• Rosedale Apologizes For Outages
• Calvin Klein IN2U Campaign Launches in Second Life

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On this week's Metaversed Live, Metaversed.com's weekly business and technology talkshow hosted live in Second Life and on Talkshoe, Cisco Systems Christian Renaud, SLNN's Aliza Sherman and UgoTrade blogger Tish Shute join Metaversed Nick Wilson to talk about what the second wave of businesses coming into the virtual world are going to have to do to succeed, and hear how Cisco turned around their entire virtual worlds strategy based on hands on experience in Second Life.