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Club Penguin

kamkamrocks4ever wrote 2 months ago: Club Penguin has a puffle party going on right now… Celebrate your puffle!!! Turn into a puffl … more →

More old posts. Cleamsing begins

maerdydd wrote 11 months ago: Another page of posts from my old site. I am quite enjoyig looking over them at the moment. How time … more →

Tags: Old Posts

Metaverse Frontier

Angus Cameron wrote 1 year ago: This is a paper I wrote a couple of years ago and which has never found a permanent home.  Despite t … more →

Tags: Xenospace, Money, Boundary Lines, Metaverse, frontier aesthetic, Frontier, Second-Life, Entropia Universe, MMORPGS

VLEs are the Answer...But What Exactly is the Question?1 comment

benhudson wrote 1 year ago: Virtual Learning Environments are web based services to assist students in blended course study (suc … more →

Tags: qualitative, Virtual Learning Environments, education institutions, Crowd Participation, Personal, social networking, Content Management System

Sharing The Computer With The Kids...Advice Would Be Greatly Appreciated!

oneboredmommy wrote 1 year ago: Four kids!  Four demanding little souls that love to interact and play on all these VIRTUAL wor … more →

Tags: families and computer time, kids and computers, virtual worlds, sharing a family computer, sharing computer time

My iTunes Account Was Hacked for $375 — By My Own Kids30 comments

Kevin C. Tofel wrote 1 year ago: UPDATED: As this past weekend included the Fourth of July holiday, I expected to see plenty of red, … more →

Tags: Mobile, Mobile Phones, app store, iPhone, iTunes, virtual goods

"LOST" and the Very Long Form Story2 comments

Mike Sellers wrote 2 years ago: So yes, I was among the many people avidly watching the “Lost” finale last night.  I tho … more →

Tags: Games, MMOG, Game design, Narrative, Story

A Moment of Silence at the End of Winter1 comment

Mike Sellers wrote 2 years ago: In the last few days there have been at least three notices of MMO or virtual world projects shuttin … more →

Tags: Games, MMOG, Virtual World

GDC Week & Predictions1 comment

Mike Sellers wrote 2 years ago: Like a lot of others, I’m heading to GDC today.  I’m mainly going for a couple of summit … more →

Tags: AI, Games, technology, social games, facebook, MMOG

A Year Later and... Facebook it is!

Mike Sellers wrote 2 years ago: I could have waited one more week and made this post officially on the one-year anniversary since my … more →

Tags: social games, facebook, MMOG

Enterprise Virtual Worlds to See Real-World Growth5 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 2 years ago: 3-D virtual world applications for enterprise use will grow into an industry earning $8 billion to $ … more →

Tags: cisco, Citrix, CSCO, IBM, Oracle, Second-Life, Adobe, multiverse, olive

Cross-Platform Kids' Game Scores $29M2 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 2 years ago: Smith & Tinker, a Bellevue, Wash.-based game company, today announced it’s raised $29 mill … more →

Tags: CNN Startups, NYT Company News, NYT Startups, SYN Straight News, Casual games, Online Games, nanovor, Smith & Tinker

12% of Americans Bought Virtual Goods in Past 12 Months: Survey31 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 2 years ago: Roughly 12 percent of Americans, or more than one in 10, have bought a virtual item at some point in … more →

Tags: CNN Big Tech, NYT Internet, SYN Straight News, Casual games, Consoles, Online Games, magid, PlaySpan, virtual currency

Can Social Games Make More Money?7 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 2 years ago: Social games attract tens of millions of players on Facebook and other networks, but compared with t … more →

Tags: CNN Startups, NYT Startups, SYN Feature Enterprise, Online Games, Brian Reynolds, Casual games, social games, zynga

WoW and Second Life Don't Tell the Whole MMO Story16 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 2 years ago: Investors poured $237 million into virtual world-related startups and payment systems last quarter a … more →

Tags: CNN Startups, NYT Startups, SYN Feature Enterprise, Online Games, Second-Life, MMO, virtual world life, Worlds Of Warcraft, YoVille

How Will Google Chrome OS Change Gaming?15 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 2 years ago: Google’s (s GOOG) Chrome OS has added a very interesting wrinkle to the future of online gamin … more →

Tags: CNN Big Tech, NYT Company News, Online Games, PC Games, SYN Analysis, chrome, Google

Notes on Boellstorff's (2008) Coming of Age in Second Life 8 comments

John Postill wrote 2 years ago: Boellstorff, T. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. … more →

Tags: media anthropology, Anthropology, internet studies, Cyberanthropology, Second-Life, virtual worlds, Tom Boellstorff, Coming of Age in Second Life, new media anthropology

WoW Players the Latest to Get Location-Based Service1 comment

Wagner James Au wrote 2 years ago: WoWPals is a new location-based service for World of Warcraft players who want to connect with other … more →

Tags: CNN Big Tech, NYT Company News, startups, SYN Straight News, Online Games, blizzard, location based service, World of Warcraft, WoWpals

4 Takeaways From the Social Gaming Summit -- So Far7 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 2 years ago: The Social Gaming Summit kicked off in San Francisco today, bringing together developers, investors … more →

Tags: CNN Big Tech, NYT Enterprise, SYN Feature Enterprise, Casual games, Online Games


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