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Grand Opening of the Art Installation „7000 Oaks“ on 25.11.2009 at the Goethe-Institut SIM in Second Life

Italian born media artists Franco and Eva Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG are this years Artists in Residence on the Goethe-Institut SIM in Second Life. They used the space given in the 3 prominent orange sky-boxes for an piece of art called „7000 Oaks“. It is a reenactment of Joseph Beuys' installation with the same name produced for the documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany.
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Introducing Second Life Enterprise Beta

The stand alone behind the firewall version of Second Life, formerly known as Nebraska, is finally out now. Its final name is Second Life Enterprise and still has a beta tag on it, but you can have it right now and start immediately.
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Current work: www.secondlife-neu-entdecken.de

We are proud to announce a new Second Life microsite dedicated exclusively to the German market: secondlife-neu-entdecken.de
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Interview with Mark Kingdon at Manager Magazin

Very interesting interview on manager-magazin.de with Linden Lab CEO Mark Kingdon.
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Enterprise Virtual Worlds to See Real-World Growth

Another analyst report forecasting a bright future for the Enterprise Virtual World market hits the road last week. According to a report by GigaOM Pro, 3-D virtual world applications for enterprise use will grow into an industry earning $8 billion to $10 billion in annual revenue by 2014.
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Talk at Science in 3D Conference

The slides of Markus Bokowsky's talk at the inworld conference of Potsdam University are now available for download.
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Review: "Kulturbiergarten"

To celebrate the 851 anniversary of the founding of the city munich, web2.0 activist and underground icon Zehra Spindler organized a series of cultural events called "Kulturbiergarten" at the location of the old Isartor in RL Munich.
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Review: dmexco

With 14.200 attendees and 290 exhibitors OMS successor dmexco was a bit smaller than OMS last year, but still a success. The exhibition hall was crowded and having in mind worldwide financial crisis, the business climate was surprisingly positive.
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Upcoming Event: Medientage München

The traditional gathering of the media industry goes into its 23rd year.
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Upcoming Event: Online Educa Berlin

Innovate, Share, Succeed is the theme of this years Online Educa taking place in early December in frosty Berlin.
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Other Moves and Grooves

As most of you know, Virtual Worlds are just one part of our business, the others are consulting and classical web development as well as PlusParts of course.
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Linden Lab Gold Solution Provider

We are very happy to announce, that we are a Linden Lab Gold Solution Provider now. Linden Lab, the company behind the virtual World Second Life launched its Gold Solution Provider Program, the first of its kind in the VW industry. The program should help companies and organisations to find a propriate partner to realise their plans in Second Life. Amongst the 250 existing Solution Providers, 31 had qualified for the Gold program. Only two from Germany, and we are very happy beeing amongst them.
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Connect with us. We are now also on facebook, twitter, slideshare, youTube, Flickr

If you want to connect with us even closer, you can do now in almost every social network around there in the cloud.
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Hello World, finally our english website is ready

Often announced, now finally ready. We made it into the english speaking world, our english website is ready now. Its not as big as our german one, but it's a start. We concentrated on our recent work in Virtual Worlds.
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Report on the Goethe-Institut in Second Life.

Now time for some excellent inWorld journalism. Draxtor Despres, a pioneer and meanwhile living legend of inworld journalism produced a machinima report on the activities of the Goethe-Institut in Second Life. Grab a popcorn, lean back and Enjoy..
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Facts & Figures, Second Life metrics Q1/2009

We thought it's time to have a look into the figures again. In fact, Q1 was for Second Life a quarter of records.
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Studies on Immersive Internet Business & Healthcare in SL

We'd like to bring two new surveys into your attention. ThinkBalm Immersive Internet Business Value Study and A Survey of Health-Related Activities on Second Life conducted by the University of Toronto.
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Upcoming Event: Internet World

On 23rd and 24th June the 2009 edition of Internet World takes place at ICM Munich.
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Upcoming Event: Education and Business Models in Virtual Worlds

On June 18th a virtual conference called "Education and Business Models in Virtual Worlds" takes place at the University of Potsdam's place in Second Life.
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Markus Bokowsky's traditional CeBIT Report

With a loss of 25% of attending companies it was the smales CeBIT I can remember, but nethertheless here is my traditional CeBIT Report. Yes, there is a recession, but thanks god we are not in the financal sector.
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Immersive Workspaces™

Immersive Workspaces™ is a combined 2D and 3D solution that brings together the comfort of a webbased backend with the benefits a 3D world can offer you for meeting and collaborating.
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sMeet now with userrooms

German based 2.5D webbased Virtual World sMeet is now offering the option of creating your own room within the sMeet world.
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Moodle/Sloodle Showcase

If you are from the education sector, you are probably familiar with the e-learning plattform Moodle. To expand the 2D webbased e-learning experience into 3D on the one hand and to support 3D inworld e-learning with a webbased 2D tool and the other hand, there is a Second Life connector for Moodle available, called Sloodle.
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German based 2,5D Virtual World
Moodle/Sloodle Showcase