The last two days two news dominated the virtual worlds scene. Google announced the launch of the ‘virtual world’ Lively and Linden Lab announced together with IBM, that they have reached the point, where they could teleport from the Second Life grid to an openSim Grid.
What have these two news in common and what does […]

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[GERMAN] Short notice for english speaking visitors:
This podcast and blog post is in German. In this episode I talk about my observations, that everything gets more and more user centric. Informations find their way to me, the communication with corporations starts when I need them and finally I also talk about data portability (but very […]

 

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I have talked recently to quite a few makers of virtual worlds and most of them don’t have the topic “data portability” really on their agenda, yet. A few of them even see it as a big threat to their business model. But let me explain, why they should care about data portability from the […]

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When somebody will ask me in a few years, what it was like to be on social networks sites like MySpace and Facebook in the early days, the first thing which would come into my mind is:
they had ridiculous bad user interfaces and it was a real mess to use them - but everybody was there.
The […]

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Jeremiah has asked a wonderful questions on his blog: “What is the future of corporate websites in 5 years?” He asked this and a few more related questions in connection with a small competition, which is already over, but I would love to also write something about it nevertheless.
To be honest - until now I […]

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