Avatarnomics: Getting a VMBA to Move from MMO to CEO
July 25th, 2008
As recently noted in both The Harvard Business Review and Forbes, the experience of playing online role-playing games can mold and shape real-world business leaders. As HBR notes: “…Tomorrow’s business landscape could well be alien territory for today’s business leaders. At many companies, important decision making will be distributed throughout the organization to enable people […]
Read more »Venture Capital: Gambling on Social Games
July 23rd, 2008
As recently reported in The Wall Street Journal and in a post on GigaOm, virtual worlds and social games are attracting increased attention from VCs these days. As GigaOm’s report noted: “…in the first half of 2008, virtual worlds raised $345 million in venture investment, according to data from Virtual Worlds Management…. From World of […]
Read more »Step Lively…
July 8th, 2008
Among the many early reports of the launch of Google’s new social network, I found Mashable’s one of the most detailed. As the post notes: “…Google has just launched Lively, a new social network built around the concept of each user creating an avatar and a personal virtual room that can be embedded anywhere on […]
Read more »A Hole in the Walled Garden?
July 7th, 2008
As reported by The Wall Street Journal, Linden Lab recently announced that some avatars have successfully been transferred—or “teleported,†in the jargon of virtual-world fans—from Second Life to a separate world operated by International Business Machines Corp. As the article notes: “…Ultimately, expanding this medium beyond a tiny niche—and making three-dimensional simulations a standard feature […]
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