Online communities to foster real life connections
Steve Rubel writes about communities – online or offline, virtual or real, and there is one key point that I really agree with: This is just the beginning, however. The most exciting moments will come...
View ArticleUS companies leaving Second Life, German companies still happy
The Second Life Boom couldn’t have lasted forever. Everyone knew that. At least now you won’t find anyone who didn’t know it all along. Seems like everyone was right. Now there are the first signs of...
View ArticleWe are living in exponential times!
Watch this and think about the stats. We are living indeed in an exponential age. It’s fascinating to think about it, once you see all these figures (that you will probably all have seen before on...
View ArticleEntropia with Crytek Engine – how realistic will graphics get?
Now this might well unsettle Second Life: Entropia has licensed the Crytek 2 Engine. I have already written about Crytek 2 in March, it offers the most fascinating graphics I have seen in a computer...
View ArticleDigital cave paintings for kids
How cool is this? A kit for wall painting for your kids. Completely digital, being projected on to your wall with a laser projector. All you need is kids that can differentiate between this harmless...
View ArticleThe first Digital Advertising trends for 2008
Just last weekend, when I was buying grocery for my farewell party from Frankfurt, I noticed that supermarkets already stock christmas cookies and bakery – but it’s only beginning of September…It...
View Article10 future web trends for the next 10 years
It really seems like prediction season started again. I also found 10 predictions by read/writeweb about what to expect in the next 10 years. Of course these topics are not new. But they will be the...
View ArticleToyota launches Yaris Advergame
Toyota published an Xbox advergame, says an article on the NY Times: The shooting car is the central character of a new Xbox game called Yaris that Toyota will introduce today. The game will be offered...
View ArticleMachinima clips of brands in computer games
Just finished the blogpost about Toyota and Burger King, when I found a post at the “off the record” blog listing video clips of brands filmed in World of Warcraft, Second Life and GTA (so called...
View ArticleA complete list of web marketing areas
I am impressed with this extensive list of web marketing areas by Jeremiah Owyang. It’s, as he calls it “A Complete List of the Many Forms of Web Marketing for 2008″ and for the moment it does indeed...
View ArticleAdAge digital issue
Adage published a “digital issue”, which seems to be completely accessible online. (Why wouldn’t it, anyway?) I haven’t read through the entire set of articles just yet, however there seem to be some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When real life simulates virtual life
I couldn’t believe it when I saw it a few minutes ago. Someone actually simulated an incidence in Second life during a real life press conference. Do you remember the time when, during a second life...
View ArticleThe fourth screen
It’s an advert, but the message is generic. Any competitor of Nokia, especially Apple with the iPhone could have said the same. The underlying idea, though, is fascinating. And very true, in my...
View ArticleLego: 3D augmented reality shows the product in the box
This is a great application for 3D augmented reality: (via webguerillas)
View Article10 Ideas for a digital decade
Continuing on blogging about trends for the upcoming year/decade I just stumbled upon a paper by Edelman about ten ideas for the new decade. Steve Rubel has an embedde scribd in his lifestream, as well...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The secret success of Second Life.
In a blobpost by Leander I was linked to some statistics published by emarketer.com about the growth of Second Life in the last 3 years. It’s amazing to see how their user base has grown round about...
View ArticleHow to win a real Mini Countryman by chasing a virtual Mini.
Excellent location based social game! Click here to view the embedded video.
View ArticleAxe falling angels – Augmented Reality
This was still in my drafts, I forgot to publish it some time ago. Very nice augmented reality gig in the middle of a trainstation in London: Click here to view the embedded video.
View ArticleThe dangers with alternate reality games and transmedia storytelling in...
Just two weeks ago, we had a little workshop at the agency, of which transmedia storytelling was one part. Now I found this article from wired, in which the author summarizes the main points from a...
View Article
