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• Widgets, Banner Ads Are Out: E-Commerce, Branded Entertainment Are In

  PaidContent - 2009-08-04

  As start-ups come to grips with the reality that the usual online advertising tools of banner ads and widgets won't keep the lights on even if the economy gets better, a few companies are significantly altering their business models. The WSJ profiles a few, like Slide, RockYou and Meez,...

  Tags: Second Life, Advertisement, Banner Advertisement, E-business, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Advertising, E-Commerce, Social Media, Avatars, Virtual Worlds, David Kaplan

• Google lets people create custom virtual realms

  - 2008-07-08

  SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Google has rolled out a challenge to virtual world giant Second Life with free software that lets people create their own online 3D worlds that can be embedded on websites and melded with other online functions. Lively by Google lets people place virtual "rooms" on...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, avatar, Google Inc., INTERNET, Second Life

• Schools eyeing virtual campuses

  - 2008-05-30

  SAN FRANCISCO AFP — An Internet fantasy universe teeming with faux worlds devoted to socializing and video games is expanding to include virtual classrooms and universities. A new trend in online education involves students acting through animated characters called "avatars" mingling in simulated school settings and even rocketing off,...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Games, INTERNET, MARKETING, Second Life

• Second Life founder quits top job over people management discomfort

  - 2008-04-26

  PARIS AFP — The founder of Internet-based virtual world Second Life Philip Rosedale told AFP he is stepping down as the company's head in favour of prominent digital communications executive Mark Kingdon. Rosedale told AFP during a Friday stopover in Paris that he will continue to work full-time for...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benefits, INTERNET, job, Paris, Second Life

• Media depot and EXP Bring the Portal SIM "Entama! Town®" in Second Life® to Internet Cafe as a Part of C&C Media's MK-STYLE

  - 2007-09-05

  TOKYO -- Media depot and EXP today announced "Entama! Town[R]" in Second Life[R] on C&C Media's MK-STYLE, an On-line gaming portal site in Internet Cafe. "Entama! Town[R]" will be launched on October 1st, 2007, distributed by Media depot as a cooperative project with EXP.

  Tags: Internet, Internet Cafe, Media, portal, Second Life, SIM card

• Internet Librarian 2007: the Internet Conference and Exhibition for Librarians and Information Managers: 2.0: info pros, library communities, & web tools.(CONFERENCE PREVIEW)(Information Today Inc.)(Conference news)(Calendar)

  - 2007-09-01

  October 29-31, 2007 Monterey Conference Center Portola Plaza Hotel & Monterey Marriott, Monterey, California INTERNET@SCHOOLS WEST * OCTOBER 29-30 www.infotoday.com Web 2.0 refers to Web services, social media, or a new interactive, participatory platform...

  Tags: conference, director, Games, Information Today Inc., INTERNET, Learning, MARKETING, network, Second Life, tool, Web

• Estonia to open embassy in virtual world Second Life

  - 2007-08-31

  TALLINN AFP — Tech-savvy Baltic state Estonia is to open an embassy in the Internet fantasy world Second Life, joining the likes of Sweden and the Maldives, the foreign ministry said Friday. "The virtual embassy will be located in the Second Life website, that has nearly 10 million registered...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Estonia, INTERNET, ministry, Second Life

• OTCPicks.com Daily Market Movers Digest Midday Report for August 2nd CCWD, MIHI, EGHT, SLON, PRSU.

  - 2007-08-02

  M2 PRESSWIRE-2 August 2007-OTCPicks.com: OTCPicks.com Daily Market Movers Digest Midday Report for August 2nd CCWD, MIHI, EGHT, SLON, PRSUC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02082007 Our Stocks to Watch today include Church and Crawford (OTC: CCWD), Medina International Holdings (OTCBB: MIHI), 8 x...

  Tags: Bradley, Company, Danny, FINANCE, INTERNET, Investment, investor, Packet8, Salon, Second Life, stock

• BEING AND BECOMING IN THE METAVERSE

  - 2007-05-24

  In AJ 15.03.07 I did a Nostradamus about how architects would be setting up their shingles on Main Street in second Life - that increasingly fashionable virtual world where you can buy property, mingle with communities and even, ahem, visit the virtual Playboy Mansion, all at www.secondlife.com.Architects, I hinted, would...

  Tags: blog, Blogging, CAD, INTERNET, Second Life, SOFTWARE

• Marketing In A Make Believe World

  - 2007-02-09

  Reuters, IBM, and Sun are some of the big name companies that have made themselves at home in Linden Lab's virtual world, Second Life. And now Scion is launching two new models in the real world and in Second Life. Scion is targeting the young "trendsetters" in Second Life i.e. the same consumers who...

  Tags: Scion, Second Life, Internet, Marketing Research, Branding, Joseph De Avila, Marketing