Archive for the 'Second Life' Category

Cisco Career Fair
Monday, November 5th, 2007

Cisco are joining the growing number of organisations experimenting with virtual world recruitment this week. It is hosting a Cisco Channel Partner Career Fair on its Second Life sim tomorrow. Participating partners on the lookout for European based engineering talent include Dimension Data UK, Belgium, Germany, Luxemburg, NetDesign, Alliant Technologies, Affinity, Voice Tech, Touchbase, Telindus, [...]

Platforms Evolution
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Catching up on virtual worlds platform related news this week the following stories caught my attention. Raph Koster finally lifted the veil on his Areae project by demoing Metaplace at the inaugural TechCrunch40 conference. Jonathan Fields has a good write up of the offering complete with a video demo. Raph has not disappointed with first [...]

Emergent Service Industry
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Singapore played host to the fifth annual State of Play Conference on Law and Virtual Worlds. This years theme was Building the Global Metaverse. The choice of location was entirely appropriate given the emergent service industry tooling up around the region in preparation for the mainstreaming of Virtual Worlds.
David Adams piece in The Age showcases [...]