Secondlife news part III

15 November 2006 om 11:24

tony

@Emmanuel. Thanks for your comments and I share your thoughts about Second Life. The big advantage off SecondLife is that there are several well known people who have been active in the virtual world. Just think about Suzanne Vega, Duran Duran etc. This generated a lot off publicity around Second Life. In my day to day life many people often ask me to tell about Second Life. I think that Second Life is not the only virtual world people must think about. So I tell them to look also to other worlds like Activeworlds. This is also the reason why I recently posted about other worlds beside SecondLife. But the big marketing and PR-activities of SecondLife make it difficult to get people also to other worlds. ActiveWorlds is indeed a virtual world with a good and long history, and your strategy to let your visitors do the PR is a good one. Just thing about the power of worth of mouth. If I can also tell more interesting news about activeworlds please let me know and I will post more about Activeworlds to let my visitors know more about your world. Continu the good work because I think virtual worlds will have the future.

15 November 2006 om 11:24

tony

@Emmanuel. Thanks for your comments and I share your thoughts about Second Life. The big advantage off SecondLife is that there are several well known people who have been active in the virtual world. Just think about Suzanne Vega, Duran Duran etc. This generated a lot off publicity around Second Life. In my day to day life many people often ask me to tell about Second Life. I think that Second Life is not the only virtual world people must think about. So I tell them to look also to other worlds like Activeworlds. This is also the reason why I recently posted about other worlds beside SecondLife. But the big marketing and PR-activities of SecondLife make it difficult to get people also to other worlds. ActiveWorlds is indeed a virtual world with a good and long history, and your strategy to let your visitors do the PR is a good one. Just thing about the power of worth of mouth. If I can also tell more interesting news about activeworlds please let me know and I will post more about Activeworlds to let my visitors know more about your world. Continu the good work because I think virtual worlds will have the future.

13 November 2006 om 2:29

Emmanuel

What keeps bugging me is that a company who started in 2002 is seen as "the leading VR environment". Activeworlds was founded in 1995 and has more than 3 million users (and is the only sound company that survived the 90's), but we don't talk about it, we just use it: consumers, multinationals, SME's....

Can Second life have 50,000 people in one virtual meeting??? No way, when i try to log on i often get Server full... while a friend tells me there are only 20 people there... Also, I had to buy a new PC and videocard, just to be able to visit SL....so what is happening in SL? I know when we have 2,000 people in AWE, none is getting "server full", maybe because the underlying techno is more sound?

So I hope journalists, writers and even big blue and big Reuters will start comparing things on a professional level and BE HONEST about it, instead of falling for milions of marketing money being pumped in to convince the world, we know what has happened to other platforms being promoted like that. It is easy to be on a known web site, when you have big names handling it. Try it low-key but honestly, to my knowledge, that is always a winning way of living and the power will be in C2B anyway, what SL is doing is B2C, something most intelligent people are fed up with, as the consumer can break or make a company.

Reactions are welcome.
Emmanuel P. Gruijs
CEO Activeworlds Europe

13 November 2006 om 2:29

Emmanuel

What keeps bugging me is that a company who started in 2002 is seen as “the leading VR environment”. Activeworlds was founded in 1995 and has more than 3 million users (and is the only sound company that survived the 90’s), but we don’t talk about it, we just use it: consumers, multinationals, SME’s….

Can Second life have 50,000 people in one virtual meeting??? No way, when i try to log on i often get Server full… while a friend tells me there are only 20 people there… Also, I had to buy a new PC and videocard, just to be able to visit SL….so what is happening in SL? I know when we have 2,000 people in AWE, none is getting “server full”, maybe because the underlying techno is more sound?

So I hope journalists, writers and even big blue and big Reuters will start comparing things on a professional level and BE HONEST about it, instead of falling for milions of marketing money being pumped in to convince the world, we know what has happened to other platforms being promoted like that. It is easy to be on a known web site, when you have big names handling it. Try it low-key but honestly, to my knowledge, that is always a winning way of living and the power will be in C2B anyway, what SL is doing is B2C, something most intelligent people are fed up with, as the consumer can break or make a company.

Reactions are welcome.
Emmanuel P. Gruijs
CEO Activeworlds Europe

07 November 2006 om 10:53

Tony

Trouwens voor de vele lezers onder ons. PLease visit the blog off Amazingg Life to know everything about Secondlife!

http://www.amazingg.nl/blog/blog.html

07 November 2006 om 10:53

Tony

Trouwens voor de vele lezers onder ons. PLease visit the blog off Amazingg Life to know everything about Secondlife!

http://www.amazingg.nl/blog/blog.html

07 November 2006 om 10:48

Tony

@Gwendolyn, Thanks for your additional information about the initiative of the politicians in Secondlife. I think it is a good initiative of the politicians to visit virtual worlds like Secondlife. I am very curious if in the future they also will make important decissions which will include our lives in virtual worlds. By gaining experience with virtual worlds today they can better understand they consequences of those worlds in the near future. Again thanks for your comment.

07 November 2006 om 10:48

Tony

@Gwendolyn, Thanks for your additional information about the initiative of the politicians in Secondlife. I think it is a good initiative of the politicians to visit virtual worlds like Secondlife. I am very curious if in the future they also will make important decissions which will include our lives in virtual worlds. By gaining experience with virtual worlds today they can better understand they consequences of those worlds in the near future. Again thanks for your comment.

06 November 2006 om 10:16

gwendolyn kronsage

Hmmm, if you report about something like the "politician from the CDA trying to promote their party" then at least try and get your facts right It was 3 members of parliament (Arda Gerkens, Bert Bakker and Zsolt Szabó) and indeed one future member of parliament (Ad Koppejan from the CDA) visiting Second Life last Friday. In fact they did a lot more than just standing at Dam Square handing out flyers. They had a tour visiting SL locations related to healthcare and education, held a debate ref. these two subjects at EduNation and only the last 15 mins were spent visiting the Damsquare at SL Amsterdam. A 3 minute machinima of the whole event can be seen at http://www.amazingg.nl/media.html.
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06 November 2006 om 10:16

gwendolyn kronsage

Hmmm, if you report about something like the “politician from the CDA trying to promote their party” then at least try and get your facts right It was 3 members of parliament (Arda Gerkens, Bert Bakker and Zsolt Szabó) and indeed one future member of parliament (Ad Koppejan from the CDA) visiting Second Life last Friday. In fact they did a lot more than just standing at Dam Square handing out flyers. They had a tour visiting SL locations related to healthcare and education, held a debate ref. these two subjects at EduNation and only the last 15 mins were spent visiting the Damsquare at SL Amsterdam. A 3 minute machinima of the whole event can be seen at http://www.amazingg.nl/media.html.
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