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More connections, more possibilities
Someone recently showed me this BT advert from 2002: “The more connections we make, the more possibilities we have”. It’s interesting for many reasons. It nicely sums up the internet of course, but it...
View Article"The point of innovation is to make actual money…"
If you live in the US, you may have seen an IBM advert recently which has been raising a few eyebrows. People are saying things like “the company implies that virtual worlds are a fad and, as a result,...
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IBM at the NRF
Does your avatar know how to make actual money? Bernadette Duponchel’s does. She was recently at the National Retail Federation conference with the rest of her team, presenting IBM’s take on virtual...
View ArticleIBM Virtual Worlds 1Q 2008 roundup
A brief summary of what’s been happening with IBM in virtual worlds in the first quarter of this year. It’s an impressive list. Mike Rhodin, General Manager of IBM Lotus software, recently made five...
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‘Evolution of Games and Social Networks’ panel at VW08 – call for questions
I’ll be moderating a panel at Virtual Worlds 2008 on Friday, entitled ‘The Evolution of Games and Social Networks’. To give you an idea of what we’ll be talking about, the abstract for the panel...
View ArticleSummary of social networks panel at VW08
I moderated a panel on virtual worlds, games and social networks at the Virtual Worlds 2008 conference today. I recently put out a request for questions here on Eightbar, and got a great response. Here...
View ArticleNifty Note Manipulation
Jason Ellis works in IBM Research and maintains a brilliant blog about art and games. In a recent post, he links to this demo video for Melodyne’s new Direct Note Access technology, which looks frankly...
View ArticleBBC Radio 1 augmenting reality with a ‘band in your hand’
Remember two years ago, when BBC Radio 1 came to Second Life for One Big Weekend? This year they explored augmented reality with a Band In Your Hand. Here’s Scott Mills showing Chappers how it works....
View ArticleMetaverse Time Capsule
In case you missed this a couple of months ago, here’s Ren Reynolds (no relation) making sense of the metaverse. Henrik Bennetsen is making a time capsule, capturing people’s responses to some short...
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Last Post
It’s my last day in the office today before I leave IBM, so it’s time to have a final cup of tea (and pint of something stronger) with my many friends at Hursley. To mark the occasion, I spent last...
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