Linden Lab will announce today that their second "work offering", Second Life Enterprise, is entering an open beta period, prior to release. The preliminary beta for the Second Life Enterprise has been running since April this year; the open beta program will run through Q4 this year, and general availability will be announced during the first half of 2010. The associated … [Read more...] about Linden Lab launches Second Life Enterprise beta today
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Group instant messaging and successful meetings in Second Life
Linden Lab have posted two useful stories on their blog that are worth passing on. The first is a heads-up on a Knowledge Base article on how to instant message a group of up to 20 of your friends without them being in a group you've created. The second is a look at how an in-world meeting was held for 160 people in Second Life. The standout sentence for me was: Gronstedt … [Read more...] about Group instant messaging and successful meetings in Second Life
Enterprise 2.0 and virtual worlds and a free discussion paper download
Today, I had the pleasure of facilitating four small group sessions at the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum 2009. The topic was virtual worlds and enterprise, and thanks to the participants in the groups, it turned into a very interesting exchange of ideas. The agenda of the overall forum was much wider: the use of Web 2.0 technologies in business. What's impressive about this … [Read more...] about Enterprise 2.0 and virtual worlds and a free discussion paper download
NoviCraft: virtual world team building
NoviCraft is one of the more fascinating virtual world business offerings by Finnish company, TeamingStream. That fascination comes not from the platform itself, but the theoretical underpinnings of it. This is a world designed purely for business-related training and team-building purposes. I took the opportunity to fire a few questions at TeamingStream's CEO, Petri … [Read more...] about NoviCraft: virtual world team building
2009: the year the ATO wakes up?
In recent weeks over on Terra Nova, Julian Dibbell has raised the issue again of taxation and virtual worlds. It's worth a read purely to gain some insight into the complexity of the issue. As Dibbell states, it's a lot more than the concept of taxing the sale of virtual goods, although that's likely to be the driving force of any actions by governments. On the Australian … [Read more...] about 2009: the year the ATO wakes up?