Category AR / VR / Metaverse
Information architecture island on Second Life
Social scientists studying human interaction in online worlds
Philips Design on experiencing experience design
Yaniv Steiner launches Wikipedia in Second Life
How Second Life changes customer service
Next step for games: social networking [San Jose Mercury News]
Experiencing love in games [BBC]
Mobile talk moves to Web 2.0 [BBC]
Business Week on user-driven innovation
Social networking for 9-year olds [Newsweek]
User research in a different world
Europe takes lead in Second Life [Reuters]
“Europeans make up the largest block of Second Life residents with more than 54 percent of active users in January ahead of North America’s 34.5 percent, according to new Linden Lab data,” as reported on Reuters/Second Life. “U.S. residents made…
Internet boom in China is built on virtual fun [International Herald Tribune]
Nickelodeon begins a web site focusing on interactive play [The New York Times]
IBM launches MySpace-like tools for companies [International Herald Tribune]
Enlarging the Davos Conversation
The World Economic Forum will be using new Web applications to extend the discussions at the Annual Meeting 2007 (Davos, Switzerland, 24-28 January – summary programme) to a much wider audience. Held under the theme Shaping the Global Agenda: The…
Philips Design on sustainability and the virtual world
The January 2007 issue of ‘new value by One Design’ (what’s up with that name?), the quarterly magazine of Philips Design, is devoted to articles on sustainability and the virtual world. Some highlights: Helping 400 million people give up smoking…