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We’ve been interviewed for Events Review/Meeting Review about virtual worlds, Top Story of the Day… But what I’m really loving is the pic caption: “Life changing: D’Orazio’s virtual avatar… and friend” LOL. Apart from this, on both magazines there’s an interesting debate going on about virtual worlds, events and marketing, check it out

Online the new issue of 2L Italia magazine with many interesting articles and a nice feature for Myrl. Download the new issue here (unfortunately it’s only for italioids, sorry!)  http://www.2litaliaworld.it/?p=119

This is a mission for virtual explorers: start a journey across worlds to discover the huge vastity of the Metaverse. This is the first of a series of missions with the goal of mapping the new virtual geography. Content Creation Worlds will guide you through some of the platforms that allow users to create content [...]

New version of the universe graph by Nic Mitham, segmented by sector and genre: Socialising, Casual Gaming, Mirror Worlds, Roleplay, Toys, Education, Fashion, Music, Content creation, Tv/films/books, Sport, Misc.While most of the sectors seems to be quite crowded, interestingly enough the only apparently untapped is the Music sector. That’s probably due to the fact that music [...]

Nice coverage for Myrl in the latest issue of Converging Media. The article is about the growing integration between virtual worlds and the web.. here’s an excerpt: ”Paul Jackson, an analyst at Forrester, warns that interest in virtual worlds has waned since Second Life consistently made the headlines last year and says that it’s “time to move to version 2.0,” where [...]

After reporting previously (5th of June) about an avatar border crossing between SL and OpenSim, it’s in the news again today that IBM and Linden Lab have been working together on this new interoperability milestone. While this is great news and we all look forward to hear more about this, I think the most interesting part of [...]

Apply Virtual Worlds & MMOs is a 1-day conference building on the successful adoption of virtual worlds across games, entertainment and corporate communications. The conference is part of the broader Visual Web Convention going on in London on the 9th and 10th of July at RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London. New platform for the Web? Life-style games? [...]

Annie Ok from Metaverse Meetup has just started a collaborative timeline of virtual worlds on Dipity, a tool to make and share interactive timelines. It’s open for anyone to edit and easy to embed. Feel free to add your 2 cents! 

Looking at the surfing destinations of UK residents Nielsen reported that Second Life and Club Penguin made it into the top 10 growing sites along sites like Facebook, Veoh, Asda and Youtube (based on total minutes). Club Penguin grew 82% from 23 million minutes to 42 million while Second Life grew 137% from 125 million minutes to 296 [...]

According to the study titled ”Market Forecasts for Virtual World Experiences,” 22 % of global broadband users will register for one or more virtual worlds over the next 10 years, bringing the total amount of users across worlds to 1 billion (not to be confused with the number of  total registered accounts that should increase at least [...]