According to a 2007 survey by the eLearning Guild, which polled nearly 1,500 of its members, from large and small companies throughout the U.S., 38% of insurance companies are investigating using games for work. In finance, accounting, and banking, that figure was above 50%.
Business Week has a special report titled The Power of Gaming which [...]
There are a number of conversations ongoing of late about what comes after Web 2.0. Some like Oliver Reichenstein are using data visualization to try and connect the dots. The recently released Web Trend Map 2007 v2.0 is used by his strategic design agency iA in Tokyo to try and make sense of it [...]
Second Earth is the aptly titled cover story of this July/August edition of MIT Technology Review. Wade Roush connects Social Virtual Worlds, Mirror Worlds, Mobile augmented reality and sensor networks to envision Second Earth.
Unlike many writers who have written pieces featuring Second Life to-date Wade has taken up residence in-world for a couple of months [...]