I looked at the front page of this ol’ blog to make sure it looked good, and then I noticed the add for Gibson’ Guitar in Second Life. It was placed with Google Adsense.
I wonder who paid for this placement? I was betting it was Linden Lab, then I clicked the link and i [...]

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“I am not permanently scared by your ideas, just perfectly disgusted.” – reaction from client to Meta Magic Studio “Outside of the Box Thinking” proposal
I can not tell you how many times clients tell me, “we want you to think outside of the box” which is code for we want the ideas you come back [...]

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The virtual world is the newest venture into successful marketing, according to a recent study by Pepsi and MTV.
The major push, it seems, is coming from a new case study of Pepsi’s work in vMTV. An online survey of 600 consumers conducted for MTV Networks in January by Harris Interactive and MauroNewMedia looked at 300 [...]

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Hell – where was the announcement in SL?
Second Life developer Linden Lab is teaming up with IBM?!? huh – damn, I missed this April 3rd press release…..
Second Life developer Linden Lab is teaming up with IBM for a version of the service that companies can run behind their firewall. Meanwhile, a startup called Multiverse [...]

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Linda Zimmer over on Business Communicators of Second Life posted a blog back in Feb that I forgot to mention. It was on research being conducted on the psychographics and media usage of Second Life avatars and their owners is being released by research company, Market Truths on March 7.
Being busy at the [...]

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SL Brand, where I am the wonk for development of Second Life content, just completed an event marketing event that included the following items from our tool box as we assisted Cisco Systems in their major introduction of the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers. The following items came into play in the three months [...]

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Into our 7th hour of music coming from Cisco’s Quantum Shift Music Day. I will be posting pictures and some thoughts a little later.

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Moo Money put together this retrospective of Cisco’s first year in Second Life. Posted January 2008.

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SL Brand put together the items that are featured in this video posted November 2007.

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This machinima was posted in October 2007.

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Here is a machinima made of Cisco’s Connected Home – originally built in January 2007. I am always amazed when I see my builds being featured in machinima.
The video features the original Cisco Second Life build of which only the Connected Home and the EBC center still exist.

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Cisco will be hosting a live event in Second Life at a special new build: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cisco%20Systems%204/47/33/21/ on March 4th starting at 10:00 am Pacific, with Doug Webster, Director of Service Provider Marketing. It’s an interactive event you surely don’t want to miss, as Cisco for the first time, will be demonstrating some [...]

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I have been working on a project for Cisco in conjunction with an announcement that they are doing on March 4.
Here is a link to part of their pre-launch blogging: Cisco Blog Entry
The Second Life component has been interesting which on the 5th I will give more details… NDA

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Yxes has gotten the line-up all done….
Sat, Mar 1 – 1 pm SLT (PST) — until 8 pm SLT (PST)
Confirmed Lineup
orangelife Holmer,
Rich Desoto,
Cylindrian Rutabaga,
Groucho March,
Edward Lowell,
Jeff Tully,
Capos Calderwood
See you at Bandwidth Stage, Cisco Systems 4 in Second Life

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Quantum Shift Music Day at Cisco SL – Bandwidth Stage – this Saturday, March 1 from 1 pm SLT (PST) to 8 pm (SLT).
Yxes is doing the booking, so you know it will be a great lineup.
Hope to see you all there!

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