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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

All survey answers are confidential and will be made anonymous and significant efforts will be made to ensure the security and privacy of your answers. 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).

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): New Numbers and New Transparency from Linden Lab/Second Life

Mark Oehlert

It certainly isnt Linden Labs responsibility to entertain you - that has never been their business model, all they have done is provide a 3D virtual world development platform where the only limitation (outside of number of prims) to what you can create is your own vision. where I am linking to all the Lewin stuff I find.

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Second Life.Its Synchronous

Kapp Notes

Although Linden Labs disputs that finding. Once you put in several hours flailing around learning how to function in Second Life, there isn't much to do." Then the Yankee group made a statement that the average person in Second Life only spends 12 minutes a month in world.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Mark is very late to the virtual worlds big news about SL and IBM.

Mark Oehlert

The good news is that Second Life ne Linden Lab, has announced a partnership with IBM to "develop new technologies and methodologies based on open standards that will help advance the future of 3D virtual worlds. So after defending Linden Lab, here's the other side. between Stephen Downes and Sean Fitzgerald.

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Talking eLearning ROI

Web Courseworks

When you need to secure an investment from an executive director or a board of directors for a big picture eLearning initiative, you need to have the numbers to back up your creative vision. Here are 10 steps you can follow to prove the worth of your idea and get an initiative approved.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Voice Coming to Second Life

Mark Oehlert

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. According to this press release , Voice will be coming to Second Life in Q2 of 2007.