- SlideShare: Using Virtual Worlds To Reach New Audiences And Increase Participation – Roo Reynolds – My slides for a talk on Thursday. Aimed at IT managers for big arts organisations. I want to talk about the power not just of virtual worlds but more generally participatory media, user generated content, etc. Now with audio
- Blockland – That game where you build stuff. – collaborative block-building game using the Torque engine.
- Russell Davies – Egg, Bacon, Chips and Beans: 50 Great Cafes and the Stuff That Makes Them Great – My lovely friend Dr Chan bought me this lovely book for my birthday. Everything great about this country (which is pretty much a nice cafe which does eggs, bacon chips & beans and a decent cup of tea for £4) is nicely captured is this funny, quirky little book
- Metaversed: MellaniuM Puts Second Life In Skype – Tech demo which streams SL (and other 3D worlds) through a Skype conversation. “Even at the low resolution, being “in” Second Life through Skype and, in addition, seeing myself through multiple camera angles at once was a pretty impressive experience.”
- Qwaq + Intel Miramar announcement – “Intel envisions using the desktop visualization edition of Qwaq Forums to dramatically enhance the productivity of our global distributed workforce.” Looks like Intel’s Miramar project (see 3pointD) is being bought to life inside Croquet; Intel are working with Qwaq.