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Virtual World SIG up and running on Google Lively

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

New browser based VW application just launched today from Google.

Virtual Worlds News has a feature linked here.

Virtual World SIG location is up and running so let’s meet up there.
I chose the “island” room in keeping with the Second Life ™ tradition. We don’t need walls anyway. Check it out!

The URL is:

http://www.lively.com/dr?rid=-4023305174264225962

And you should see it below:

Links July 6, 2008

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Enjoy!

HP sees more “Second Life ” like collaboration 

 Soaring oil prices lead to thousands of virtual friends 

Spore review by Businessweek

Spore review by MTV 

World of World of Warcraft, the latest virtual world.

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Did you know that there is now a world where you can experience being in a world where you play inside and actual virtual world!

Wow this is too cool not to post it.

via. TheOnion 

via. Wonderland

via. Boing Boing


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  • The Consumerization of Software Development Forum - tomorrow June 4

    Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

     SDForum is hosting a half-day conference tomorrow, and it sounds like a really interesting event.
    I’ll see if I can blog some essential points from the event.  Check it out if you’re in the area.

    The Consumerization of Software Development Forum
    Wednesday, June 4, 2008
    Location: Cooley Godward Kronish, Palo Alto
    3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto , CA 94304


    The cutting edge of “software” is undergoing a structural change as new business models, and new strategies for customer acquisition have supplanted the Y2K era of enterprise software models. Centralized buying decisions driven by the CIO have given way to “democratic” or consumer-like adoption behavior within the enterprise. Open-source software, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and other “bottom-up” rather than “top-down” models are exploiting this trend. In this event on next generation software, you will have the opportunity to hear from next-gen leaders in the software space.

    Agenda

    11:30 – 12:30               Registration and Lunch
    12:30 – 1:00pm            Welcome & The Consumerization Thesis

    1:00 pm–1:45 pm       Panel Discussion: “A View on Software from Wall St ”
    Moderator: Vince Pangrazio, Cooley Godward Kronish
    Brendan Barnicle, Pacific Crest
    Charles Carmel, Cisco
    Mike Maples, Managing Partner/Founder, Maples

    Investments
    1:45pm – 2:00       Fireside Chat: Brett Caine, President of Citrix Online
    Moderator: Rich Wong, Accel

    2:pm – 2:45pm            Panel Discussion: “Beating the incumbents through bottom-up tactics”
    Moderator: Rich Wong, Accel
    Duke Chung, CEO President and Co-founder, Parature
    Satish Dharmaraj, CEO and Co-founder, Zimbra
    Mike Ni, Senior VP of Solutions, Netsuite
    Javier Soltero, CEO and Co-founder, Hyperic

    2:45pm – 3:10pm      Facebook in the Enterprise
    Chamath Palihapitiya, VP Prod Mktg & Operations, Facebook

    3:10 pm – 3:25 pm    BREAK

    3:25 pm – 4:15 pm     Panel Discussion: “Products for the end user instead of the manager”
    Moderator: Kevin Efrusy, Accel
    Chamath Palihapitiya, VP Prod Mktg & Operations, Facebook
    Jason Lemkin, CEO and Co-founder, Echosign
    David Thompson, CEO, Genius
    Anthony Deighton, SVP of Marketing, Qliktech

    4:15 pm – 4:45 pm     Fireside Chat: Clarence So, CMO, SalesForce
    Introduced by: Rich Wong, Accel

    4:45pm – 5:00 pm    Closing Remarks

    Design Coding rap

    Friday, April 4th, 2008

    Yo yo dawg… check this out…

    Via MOU blog.