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Archive for the ‘Second life’ Category

Bank Holiday Search Round Up

Well, the bank holiday is almost upon us, but before we at eyefall leave the office to tend to gardens and the like, we thought we’d give you or view on the big stories in search right now.

Yahoo! to be bought by Microsoft? We first saw this story early today and didn’t think it was […]

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Metaverse by Google

Those rumours won’t go away. The latest, as seen on GigaOM, suggest that Google are already busy with the development of their own metaverse while a company in China develops avatars for them.
Second Life by Google seems like exactly the kind of thing they would do. They have the financial and computing clout to create […]

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Prim and proper in Second Life

So, I was minding my own business, checking out some of the tourist beauty-spots in Second Life and generally keeping a customised eye out for a dishonest way to make a fast buck (not an uncommon pastime as it transpires) when I found myself outside the offices of Wired magazine in the middle of the […]

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Virtual Reality TV?

So Endemol are looking at taking the Big Brother format in to Second Life. Is no-where safe from trash TV? I guess the idea of a format that has driven mass participation in traditional media moving to an environment where participation is everything will be an interesting experiment.
Surely with the potential to interact with so […]

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