Kapp Notes

JUNE 24, 2010

Event This just in: Linden Labs, the creator of the 3D virtual world Second Life has announced that company founder Philip Rosedale has been named interim CEO and that Mark Kingdon is stepping down as CEO. This comes just a short time after Linden Labs announced a layoff of 30 percent of its staff.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Some interesting things are going on with the folks over at Linden Labs , the developers of the virtual immersive environment of Second Life. First, they are sponsoring a contest called The 2010 Linden Prize. See more at The Linden Prize. Second Life is going corporate. Check out the full interview.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 31, 2010

Here is an interesting rumor and a potentially large game-changer in the virtual world space. So while I haven't seen any official notice or indication that Linden Labs is shopping around Second Life or that anyone is purchasing the product, the rumors do seem to be adding up. Tags: Second Life 3D worlds.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Here is a little email intercept I received from an unnamed source (ok, it's from Snickers' Doodles in her post Linden Lab to announce Viewer 2 beta tomorrow which she received in-world from Pink Linden. Tags: Second Life 3D worlds. Looking forward to a very exciting day tomorrow!

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 26, 2010

Virtual world provider, VenueGen , recently came out of private Beta to a public Beta (whatever that means) and loudly announced their virtual meeting platform. It has been described as a lot more than Cisco’s WebEx meeting platform, and a lot less than Linden Labs’ Second Life virtual world.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Bart Pursel of Virtual Learning Worlds and an alumni of our program presented on Virtual Worlds. He defined a Virtual World as a computer-based environment intended for users to inhabit and interact via avatars in a 3D represented world.

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 7, 2007

What kills me though as I read t he comments on the TechCrunch post , comments like " I just get so damn bored walking around second life.that needs to change " and " I explored the second life world for a week to try and understand the hype " - is how people that are so tuned into Web 2.0 so is a virtual life.

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Mark Oehlert

OCTOBER 19, 2007

. | Main | "A Vision of Students Today" from the Creators of "The Machine is Us/ing Us" » October 19, 2007 Mark is very late to the virtual worlds big news about SL and IBM. So yes, Ive fallen a bit behind in my virtual world reading but that just means I get to see all the interesting stuff all at once. " Yea!

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

He ran Michael Milken’s Knowledge Universe Interactive Studio before he became VP, Platform & Technology for Second Life at Linden Labs. You explore the content together. Most preferred the virtual meetings. By the way, here’s Tony O’Driscoll talking about the affordances of virtual worlds for learning.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2010

When developing PowerPoint slides to use in web conference training follow these guidelines: Simplify content. World Cafe’s online ? In most cases, and in my case, the community manager also performs the moderation functions. Moderation would be a small part of several people’s jobs. inside the online meeting room). Spot on, CogDog!

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 1, 2010

Sitting at my virtual desk gathering statistics. Here are some interesting Virtual World Statistics gathered from a number of different sources. In the fourth quarter of 2009, total registered accounts in the virtual worlds sector reached 803 million. From US lagging behind UK in virtual goods uptake.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

For me it holds many memories of speaking to large and appreciative audiences, the remains of the Berlin Wall, the Checkpoint Charlie museum, Christmas markets, Unter den Linden, Alexanderplatz, Ka De We, and the Brandenburg Gate. Change your mind about content creation. For many, OEB is the uber-conference for e-learning.

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 8, 2007

Here are three scenarios that Linden puts out there: Scenario 1 - Residents can teleport to voice-enabled land, andautomatically start speaking, with the volume of speech modifiedaccording to their spatial relationship with others. This should add a much needed layer of interaction to this virtual world. From the land of Huh?

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 5, 2007

Funny Future of e-Learning Research Cross Posting Futures Games Gaming & Learning Government Hardware Industry informal learning Innovation Insanely Cool Content Job Leads Latest News Learning Learning 2005 Learning As Art Learning/Training Learning/Web 2.0 From the land of Huh? where I am linking to all the Lewin stuff I find.

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 8, 2007

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « New Numbers and New Transparency from Linden Lab/Second Life | Main | My Blog is Worth $66, 615.72 (any buyers??) Everyone is welcome, I could care less about resumes, they’re meaningless, it’s all about who shows up." " Did everybody get that?

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Mark Oehlert

FEBRUARY 28, 2008

Main | Great New PaperVision Examples - 3D in Your Browser » February 28, 2008 Small Basket of Virtual World Items Still playing a bit of catch up from GDC and I have some interesting virtual world notes. The Virtual World market is growing, the pie is getting bigger so relative slices will appear smaller.

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Learning Visions

JULY 10, 2007

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace Over the past few weeks Ive conducted about 17 interviews with current college students and recent graduates. This was a little wake up call to me as I sit in my little e-Learning world, trying to immerse myself in all that is new. All women. 12:03 PM Mark said.

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