According to my copy of Braodcast, the BBC is gonna show its first ever full programme "in a virtual world" this Friday. The Money Programme is going to be lookin' at the businesses of Second Life and MMOs.
"Virtual World, Real Millions" is going to be simultaneously broadcast on BBC 2 and at the Rivers Run Red cinema in SL on Friday June 1 at 7pm GMT.
The show will be the usual look at the growth of virtual worlds and will include spiel from the likes of Philip (Lindon) Rosedale, etc. It also features interviews with the virtual marketing gurus Rivers Run Red, which has amassed a multi-million pound turnover by trading inside virtual worlds, and the team behind Reebok's virtual stores. Oh, and GamesIndustry.biz deputy editor Matt Martin and David Solari, vice president of Codemasters online gaming, will be offering their high-frame-biased views on SL (er, woot) but will be talking about the recently launched LOTR Online: Shadows of Angmar, and the programme will focus on issues such as gold farming and virtual crime.
Oldspot says: meh, AFBB (Another Fucking Brainless Blockbuster)Sad, but true.
Lactose says: Look at the fuckin robots though dude. Hmmm, shiny...
Oldspot says: Thats what they want you to say, and then queue up and pay you ten quid or whatever, watch it, and then go away disappointed thats its not as good as you thought it was going to be...
...OF COURSE IT ISNT, ITS A FUCKING BLOCKBUSTER, WHOSE SOLE EXISTENCE IS TO STEAL YOUR MONEY. NOT TO ENTERTAIN YOU, NOT TO STIMULATE YOU, JUST TO HAVE ENOUGH CRAP TO STRING TOGETHER INTO A VISCERAL TRAILER TO LURE YOU IN AND TAKE YOUR FUCKING MONEY.
Sorry. Too much coffee...
When you’ve just made it sound like the Queen is more than 200 years old, there may be a few ways of recovering from the gaffe. But turning to her and giving her a sly wink is probably not included in any book of royal etiquette.
That’s what happened yesterday after George Bush mangled his greeting to the Queen on her state visit to the U.S. Stumbling over his words, he came perilously close to suggesting that the monarch had toured the States in 1776.
And although the President’s following wink was initially rewarded with a regal glare, the Queen did at least seem to see the funny side of the blunder. After the blunder the President paused and turned to the Queen to acknowledge his gaffe, joking that she “gave me a look that only a mother could give a child.”
Ripples of laughter echoed around those gathered at the event and the President laughed off the mistake and continued his speech...
Absolute plank.
This looks cool. Nano-Expo , or NottinghamNano, in HoodTown.
In a story for InformationWeek published last week (blogged previously), Executive Editor Mitch Wagner asked a representative of Linden Lab for a clarification of Stern's quote. As he describes in a blog post last Friday, the number he received in return was staggering: While the company estimates its own flesh-and-blood user base to have reached 3.2 million at the end of last March, he learned, its actual user retention rate is close to 10%. Based on that formula, Linden Lab's everyday user count is close to 320,000.Ouch! That's gotta be bollocks? Surely? Pfffft!
Linden Lab will not store any specific, identifying information. We’ll keep less exact information as a way to allow Residents, if they should so choose, to share verified aspects of their identity with others in Second Life — ie, not an exact date of birth, but an age (over 30) and not a specific address, but a city and country. Such sharing will, of course, be completely voluntary. Our verification provider will assess the consistency of the provided information and return a match code; at that point, a Resident becomes verified. The entire process takes less than two minutes, and will be available internationally. Our verification provider will only use information to provide a match code.The words will not store count for a lot, and I'm glad to read them as part of this new statement.
It went on to some inane inaccurate sexist cock, but, this first bit was interesting. Especially as the ETC is in a German sim and the RFL battle is against psudo-Germans...Second Life has become the David Hasselhoff of internet gaming.
A study released today by digital census takers comScore shows that Germans make up 16 per cent of Sadville residents, making them the largest country of origin in the "game."
Between January and March, a 70 per cent population explosion of Deutschlanders placed them above US residents, the former population leader, by approximately 2,000 people.
In March, about 1.3 million people logged into Second Life, according to comScore. Of those people, 209k were German, 207k were from the US, 167k were in the Asia Pacific and 104k were from France.
The UK lags behind with a mere 72,000 redcoats (6 per cent) logging into the virtual world. (But honestly, it's a bit like coming in last place at a no-hands-allowed pie eating contest; No dignity lost there.)
The total Sadville population increased by 46 per cent from January to March. Sixty one per cent hailed from Europe, and 19 per cent from North America...
