Events Blog

Moving on to World2Worlds��What�s That You Ask?

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:03:01 -0500

Exciting and interesting times! World2Worlds is the company I�ve owned for well over a year now and has been under contract to CMP working hand in hand with John Jainschigg for whom I�d been providing consulting services in the development, design, implementation and management of their virtual world presence and events, such as the Life 2.0 conferences. I�m very excited to be publicly sharing this with you!

Metanomics at CMP: Accounting and Taxes!

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:57:52 -0500

Join us Monday, March 31, at 11:00 AM PDT/2:00 PM ET for a panel to discuss taxes and financial reporting for virtual businesses, with Rocky Maddaloni, Director of the Maryland Association of CPAs (and also Director of SLACPA), Chili Carson, who has an accounting practice in SL, and Bryan Camp, Tax Law Prof from Texas Tech (and Metanomics guest from the Fall).
»Monday, March 31, 11:00 AM SLT (2:00 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)

Metanomics at CMP: Mitch Kapor on Changes at Linden Lab

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:59:03 -0500

Join us Friday, March 28, at 10:30 AM PDT/1:30 PM ET for a special session of Metanomics with Mitch Kapor, Chairman of the Board of Linden Lab, to discuss management changes at the company and the future of Second Life.
»Friday, March 28, 10:30 AM SLT (1:30 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)

Sun, Wonderland and Immersive Learning

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:01:13 -0500

Join us Thursday, March 27, at 10:00 AM PDT/1:00 PM ET for a conversation with Kevin Roebuck, Community Manager for Immersive Technologies at Sun. Kevin will offer an overview Sun's global educational initiatives. He'll discuss Wonderland, an open source toolkit for creating 3D virtual worlds. And he'll describe Sun's roadmap for the future of Education, including the Open Virtual Worlds Project with the New Media Consortium and the Immersive Education Initiative at Media Grid.
»Thursday, March 27, 10 AM SLT (1 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)

Metanomics at CMP: Visit to CosmoGirl in There.com

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:37:19 -0500

Join us Monday, March 24, at 11:00 AM PDT (2:00 PM EDT) for a video-mediated trip to There.com to see CosmoGirl's new installation. Professor Robert Bloomfield (Beyers Sellers) moderates. With Mary Jane Gordon of Market Truths and other special guests!
»Monday, March 24, 11 AM SLT (2 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)

Sun's Richard Zippel on "RedShift"

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:51:13 -0500

Sun coined use of the term "Redshift" to describe business models (like 3D, social networking, rich IP media) that -- distinct from 'enterprise scale computing' -- require computational and networking architectures offering rates of improvement in speed, bandwidth and reliability equal to or greater than that offered by Moore's Law. Join us Thursday, March 6th, at 10:00 AM PST (1:00 PM EST) for a conversation with Dr. Richard Zippel, VP Technology for Sun Microsystems, for a state-of-the-art update on "Redshift," and developer-focused computing services (cloud computing).
»Thursday, March 6, 10 AM SLT (1 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)

InformationWeek Live: Report from India

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:58:30 -0500

Join us Tuesday, March 4, at noon SLT (3 PM ET) for a conversation with InformationWeek's Chris Murphy describing the insights he gained on a two-week tour of the IT industry in India, looking at startups, IT in a small village, and of course the thriving outsourcing industry. InformationWeek Senior Editor, Mitch Wagner, presiding.
»Tuesday, March 4, Noon SLT (3 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)

InformationWeek Live! Clay Shirky

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:54:11 -0500

Join us on Tuesday, Feb 26, 2008 at Noon PST/SLT (3 PM ET) for a conversation with New York University's Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power Of Organizing Without Organizations, which describes how social networks like MySpace and Digg are allowing new kinds of collaborative action. InformationWeek Senior Editor, Mitch Wagner, presiding.
»Tuesday, February 26, Noon SLT (3 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)

Metanomics at CMP: There.com CEO Michael Wilson

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:07:00 -0500

Join us Monday, February 25 at 11 AM SLT for an interview with There.com CEO and eBay pioneer Michael Wilson. Professor Robert Bloomfield of Cornell University�s Johnson Graduate School of Management will interview Mr. Wilson in There.com, the show will be interactively broadcast to CMP's amphitheatre and Metanomics partner sims by SLCN.tv.
»Monday, February 25, 11 AM SLT (2 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)

Metanomics at CMP with There.com CEO

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:27:24 -0500

Metanomics is delighted to welcome There.com CEO Michael Wilson on February 25th, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time. Mr. Wilson was responsible for building the organization and technology for eBay, and is taking that ability and experience into the Metaverse. He will be interviewed by the host of Metanomics, Professor Robert Bloomfield of Cornell University�s Johnson Graduate School of Management. The interview will take place in There.com, with live audiences both in There and in Second Life�s CMP 1 Island, managed by CMP Metaverse. The show will be filmed in both worlds by the metaverse�s premier television network, Second Life Cable Network, and streamed live onto http://SLCN.tv. Live audiences in both There.com and Second Life will be able to pose questions for Mr. Wilson, in a discussion ranging from the �Four Rivers of Revenue� for virtual worlds to the strategic vision of There.com and the future of the Metaverse.
Monday, February 25th, 11:00 SLT (2 PM EST) at the CMP Amphitheatre http://slurl.com/secondlife/CMP%201/237/119/24/

Reflections and Thoughts � Part 1 of Many - Metaverse U at Stanford

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:32:16 -0500

What can I say? This two-day conference had some pretty amazing presentations. Some were inspiring, others thought provoking. I�ve a few comments on some of the presentations I�d like to share with you today and over the next few days as it's far too much for one blog post. Before I do, one of the statements made at the beginning of the conference was that this was the first conference to stream �to� SL, live, and take questions from the audience.

InformationWeek Live: New Stuff from Microsoft!

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:58:14 -0500

Join us on Tuesday, February 19, at noon SLT/3PM ET, for a look ahead at Microsoft's hotly-awaited February 27 announcements of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008! InformationWeek Executive Editor Mitch Wagner and Senior Editor Nick Hoover explore the issues in a live audio Q&A.
»Tuesday, February 19, Noon SLT (3 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)

Metanomics at CMP: Real World Media in Virtual Worlds

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:47:45 -0500

Join us on Monday, February 18, at 11 AM SLT/2PM ET, for a special session, co-produced with Metanomics and SLCN.TV Metanomics host, Prof. Robert Bloomfield of Cornell (Beyers Sellers) will interview Eric Krangel (Eric Reuters - SL correspondent for Reuters News Agency); Rhonda Lowry (Rhonda Lowry - VP, Emerging Technologies at Turner Broadcasting System/TBS); Prokofy Neva (who blogs at >secondthoughts.com); and John Jainschigg (John Zhaoying, of CMP).
»Monday, 11 AM SLT (2 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)

InformationWeek Live! Locational Technologies

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:37:17 -0500

Join us on Tuesday, February 12, at noon SLT/3PM ET for InformationWeek Live, where Mitch Wagner and guests will take a look at GPS and other technologies businesses are using those to offer services that know exactly where you are. Produced over TalkShoe and streaming live into Second Life.
With host Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek editors Marianne McGee and Stephen Wellman, and David Neel of Trackmypizza.com.
»Tuesday, February 5, Noon SLT (3 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)

InformationWeek Live: SOA and Virtualization

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:00:54 -0500

Join us on Tuesday, February 5, at noon SLT/3PM ET for InformationWeek Live with InformationWeek executive editor Mitch Wagner and senior editor Andy Dornan. Produced over TalkShoe and streaming live into Second Life, Mitch and Andy will discuss how service-oriented architecture can drive virtualization to the next generation, based on Andy's article in this week's InformationWeek. Tuesday, February 5, Noon SLT (3 PM ET) at the CMP Amphitheatre (slurl)