CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Sep 23, 2009 12:15pm
The weekly Metanomics series kicks off its 3rd season with an extra special show today, a live discussion from the Engage Expo in San Jose featuring Linden Lab executives Philip Rosedale and Tom Hale who will be joined from their live location there with the Metanomics Main Stage in Second Life with the Metanomics team Harper Beresford and JeanieSing Trilling.
This takes place at 4:00 PM PT today (check local time) with several options for ways you can participate:
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CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 5, 2008 05:08pm
On Friday April 25, NMC CEO Larry Johnson (or as we know him in Second Life, Larry Pixel) was a guest interviewee for the Metanomics series, the weekly live show that takes place in, and is broadcast live from Second Life.
As part of an event at Clever Zebra's vBusiness Expo, in this interview, Metanomics host Robert Bloomfield asked Larry about the NMC's Virtual worlds programs and then discussed more on Larry's recent experience testifying before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 5, 2008 06:17am
The weekly Metanomics show has been on a 35 week sprint marathon, with live shows each of the last 35 weeks, and is taking a breather in May.. but there are still things you can tune into. Every Monday and Tuesday, they will be showing rebroadcasts of the top interviews and as a live audience, you can tune in and discuss the topics with other people.
Monday May 5, 2008, 11am PST: Gene Yoon, VP of Business Affairs and architect of ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Apr 23, 2008 08:37pm
This Friday, April 25, will be a special Metanomics interview featuring the NMC's own, our CEO Larry Johnson (who is the real real avatar of Larry Pixel). Like all Metanomics sessions, this takes place somewhere in Second Life, but is live video streamed to the NMC location on Outreach.
Robert Bloomfield and Metanomics will host a special event as part of Clever Zebra's vBusiness Expo. Rob will interview Dr. Larry Johnson, CEO of New Media Consortium, who recently testified to ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Apr 7, 2008 08:22am
In addition to the regular scheduled Metanomics session today at 11:00am PST on Experimental Economics in Virtual Worlds, there is a special event of interest to educators - at 2:00 PM PST join us also at Outreach on NMC Campus for a live event. Charles Nesson from Harvard will be giving a lecture in Second Life on the future of the university.
Metanomics: Experimental Economics in Virtual Worlds
When: Monday, April 7 at 11:00am PST (check local time)
Where: Amphitheater on ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Mar 26, 2008 11:46am
Tune in to NMC Friday over on Outreach to catch a live video Metanomics Series interview with Mitch Kapor the board chair of Linden Lab. With the latest news of shuffling leadership, its going to be an important opportunity to hear what is happening at the House of Linden.
This Friday, March 28th, 2008, at 10:30AM SLT (1:30 PM EST), Robert Bloomfield and Metanomics will hold a special session of Metanomics. We will be joined by Mitch Kapor, Chairman of the ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Mar 23, 2008 08:11pm
We love Second Life, but in virtual worlds space we are keeping an eye on other platforms. There.com has been around a while, and in Monday's Metanomics series, hot Robert Bloomfield will go "there" for a discussion of marketing in that space. But you can watch comfortably from NMC Campus in Second Life, as the live video is streamed to us thanks to the folks at SLCN.tv.
This Monday, March 24th, 2008, at 11:00AM-12:00PM PSR, Robert Bloomfield and Metanomics will broadcast ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Mar 17, 2008 09:53pm
It seems having an academic researcher on Metanomics brought in more viewers to NMC's viewing location; we had over 25 avatars show up to watch host Robert Bloomfield interview Nick Yee.
Yee explained how his research at Stanford led to his position at the Palo Alto Research Center and discussed his interest in social interactions among avatars, how they are measured in lab, The Proteus Effect, and more.
Look for Yee's papers such as "The Proteus Effect: The Effect ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Mar 16, 2008 05:26pm
Look for another great Metanomics series live session you can watch on NMC Campus- this week the guest is Nick Yee, a researcher in virtual worlds at the Palo Alto Research Center who has been looking at social interaction and self-representation.
The Daedalus Project is an ongoing study of MMORPG players. MMORPGs (an acronym for Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games) are a video game genre that allow thousands of people to interact, compete, and collaborate in an online virtual environment. Over the ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Mar 3, 2008 09:06am
Today's weekly Metanomics session available to view on NMC Campus features Robert Bloomfield's interviewing of David Levine (no relation to my RL avatar), from IBM's TJ Watson Research Center, and will cover some of the latest effort from IBM in the Virtual World's space
David is a 23 year employee of IBM Research, with summer and university internships, extending back another five years. His interests in Social computing and online collaboration extends back to work in 1982-1985 in IBM's online ... more » »