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Written by Xavier Mohr
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Tuesday, 26 June 2007 |
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By Xavier Mohr, Publisher
SL Reports • www.slreports.net Loyal Readers, Advertisers, Investors, Friends, and Colleagues:
There have been allegations of late about Mr. Sal Ackland, the Virtual Commerce Exchange (VCE), investment "fraud," and connections to existing Second Life financial institutions.
Some folks are aware of the fact that I have spoke with Sal Ackland concerning these matters, and have investigated them independently for both professional and personal reasons.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 June 2007 )
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Written by Enniv Zarf
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Tuesday, 26 June 2007 |
Sponsored by: By Pier Fawkes
Recently we got invited to participate in a conference on virtual worlds. Our reaction was a little luke-warm as there’s something about the definition of virtual worlds we’re weary of: Lots of people are pointing to 3D worlds and saying that they’re the next big thing - but maybe virtual worlds are already here. Virtual worlds don’t have to be 3D video games like Second Life. We all have avatars, they’re just don’t have to be quirky stick figures. We need to widen our view of what a virtual world is. READ IT ALL HERE: http://www.psfk.com/2007/06...
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Tuesday, 26 June 2007 |
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Sponsored by:  Here is the full ranked table of tracked sites for the week ending Sunday June 24, 2007:
Site (* Native reality site)
Est avg hourly visits
Est avg hourly visits (peak hrs)
Estimated total weekly visits
* Phat Cat's Jazzy Blue Lounge 178 193 30,048 (down 2%)
* Lost Gardens of Apollo 83 107 14,052 (up 7% )
* City of Lost Angels 83 88 13,992 (up 5%)
* New Citizens Incorporated 81 107 13,608 (up 9%)
IBM 59 60 9,912 (up 2%)
* The Shelter 56 64 9,504 (up 18%)
* Midgar 55 63 9,336 (down 5%)
The Pond 55 29 9,288 (up 33%)
The L Word 39 50 6,684 (up 38%)
* Isle of Lesbos 36 48 6,120 (up 33%)
Pontiac 32 49 5,532 (up 25%)
* Ballers City 21 26 3,612 (stable)
* Svarga 20 27 3,504 (stable)
Weather Channel 19 24 3,216 (up 56%)
Playboy 17 20 3,000 (down 5%)
ABC Island 15 14 2,652 (up 21%)
Microsoft 15 20 2,640 (up 7%)
Nissan 11 8.5 1,908 (stable)
Virtual Holland 7.5 12 1,272 (up 73%)
NBA 7.1 11.4 1,200 (down 24%)
AOL Pointe 6.1 6 1,032 (down 25%)
Sun Microsystems 4.2 12 720 (stable)
Comcast 3.7 4.2 624 (stable)
Useful Technology 3.3 1.1 564 (down 55%)
Dell 2.1 2.8 360 (up 30%)
Coldwell Banker 2.0 4.5 336 (stable)
Adidas 1.6 1.7 276 (stable)
Reebok 1.21 2.5 204 (stable)
Coca Cola 1 2 180 (up 114%)
The top ten, with commentary is posted to New World Notes.
Methodology
Mixed reality sites in this headcount are selected for their prominence, either from publicity or real world name recognition. Sites with consistent low traffic (500 or less weekly) may be dropped in future Headcounts in favor of other sites. We do not count sites with camping chairs, or visitors in the orientation sims, as there seems to be little evidence to suggest that they will become visitors to the parent site - and if they do, we catch them when we headcount the site anyway.
We collect data four times per day for each site at 2am, 8am, 2pm and 8pm (times in SLT/US Pacific) plus/minus 1 hour. For each sample we count the number of people at the site at the time. We average those samples across the week, and then assume that average to hold constant, with each visitor spending a half hour on-site. This methodology does not necessarily include one-time events that generate high traffic missed by our sampling, which we'll make note of whenever possible. Headcounts do not factor in returning visitors, so assume that the total number of unique Residents are likely to be significantly less than the estimated total visits.
READ IT ALL HERE:
http://dwellonit.blogspot.com...
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 June 2007 )
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Written by Enniv Zarf
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
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Sponsored by: By Hotrod
Our own Supreme Convoy has brought us news about new Transformers Movie interviews. The videos of the Second Life Interviews have made their way to Youtube. Here they are:
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Written by Enniv Zarf
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
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Sponsored by:  By Shawn Adler
SECTOR 7, Second Life — The film sports giant robots that change into sports cars, big-rigs, helicopters — even a CD player. But the biggest makeover of all was reserved for the human cast of the upcoming "Transformers" (see " 'Transformers': Checking Under The Hood For Juicy Plot Details"), when stars Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel and Megan Fox and director Michael Bay invaded Second Life for a virtual press conference. "Is that me?" Fox asked, no doubt in front of a computer somewhere pointing at her on-screen avatar. "Wow. I have gigantic [breasts]!" READ IT ALL HERE: http://www.mtv.com/movies/news...
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
How modeling societies in silico can help us understand human inequality, revolution, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.
By Mark Williams
Paul Krugman, the distinguished Princeton University economics professor and New York Times columnist, once explained the jejune motives for his choice of career. "In my early teens my secret fantasy was to become a psychohistorian," he wrote, referring to the central gimmick, "psycho history," of Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy. Krugman continued, "Someday there will exist a unified social science of the kind that Asimov imagined, but for the time being economics is as close to psycho history as you can get."
That's risible, given the gulf between Asimov's fantasy of a predictive calculus of human affairs and the actuality of mainstream economics--indeed, of any of the social sciences--as practiced during most of the last century. Recent decades, though, have seen new approaches. One of the most promising was described by Joshua Epstein, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, in Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up, a book he published in 1996 in collaboration with Robert Axtell. "Perhaps one day people will interpret the question, 'Can you explain it?' as asking 'Can you grow it?'" Epstein suggested. "Artificial society modeling allows us to 'grow' social structures in silico demonstrating that certain sets of microspecifications are sufficient to generate the macro phenomena of interest."
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http://www.technologyreview.com...
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