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A Lot Happening in the 3D Space

Kapp Notes

Java gives the ThinkingWorlds application many advantages for delivery - it is almost ubiquitous, it can be delivered securely and it is very portable and easy to host by any client. Linden Labs, makers of Second Life, announce the list of the Top Ten: 2010 Linden Prize Finalists.

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Cool Second Life Happening:UW VIBE Future InfoExpo Recruitment

Kapp Notes

They are hosting a Future InfoExpo, which offers 6 experiential exhibits. As a token of appreciation, the first 300 [JM 5/111] individuals who volunteer to participate will be thanked with a gift of Linden dollars up to L$1800 (approximately US$7). Interested? Contact us in Second Life: Ashlyley Gabardini (First Life: Peyina Lin).

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Expelled: Woodbury's Second Life Silencing

Learning with e's

Occasionally this blog hosts guest posts. Most recently, the brick-and-mortar university Woodbury was booted off Second Life —thousands of students were affected—by the virtual world's moderators, a company called Linden Lab. Linden Lab has remained largely silent in the press, a silence that has infuriated many.

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Learning in a Virtual World

Moodle Journal

On Saturday 17th of Feb at 5pm I will begin hosting some presentation trials that will be looking at the Linden Script, that’s the language in SL, and comparing it with other main stream computer languages.

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Standards and success

Clark Quinn

At the recent VW talks hosted by SRI, one of the topics was the inability to transfer a character between platforms. Eventually, one format will emerge, but it may take committees, or it may be that someone like Linden Labs will own the space sufficiently that everyone will lock into a format they provide.

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The Web is Not Public.But maybe It Should be or maybe Not

Mark Oehlert

Second Life/Linden Lab is really just a Web-hosting company that lives in San Fran. Maybe the Web can be some kind of Habermas-like salon but its not. It rides on commercial pipes owned by for-profit companies and we are largely at their whim. Now, back to my coffee and our regularly scheduled blog.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Adobe/Bersin Overview of the eLearning Industry

Learning Visions

Overview of the eLearning Industry The evolving state of the industry Host: Ellen Wagner, Adobe Guest Speaker: Chris Howard, Principal Analyst at Bersin Associates (research and advisory firm in corporate training and performance management) Research done by Bersin in the last several months. Nothing shocking, but some interesting tidbits.