Category: Social Networking

  • I’ve been Social Networking with Laurel Papworth

    Wow, and ouch – my brain is full… I’ve just spent the last 2 days with Laurel Papworth, University of Sydney lecturer, and online communities consultant. She’s been over this side of the Tasman to chatting about the opportunities and futures in the online communities space, specifically around the social networking area. Without sounding too […]

  • Starting a Second Life

    Eeesh – I signed up for a ‘Second Life’ account today – I’m not convinced about how much time I’ll spend on it, given the time investment I’m already giving the World of Warcraft (Ding L65 today!). Anyway, it fits in nicely with the social networking research that I’m doing at work so – we’ll […]

  • WoW – The MMOGs are taking over!

    The boss found this great site last week – makes for some pretty scary/impressive reading! The website started out as a bit of a personal interest research into Massivly Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOGs) and, while still not a commercial undertaking, the site has gained quite a following – to the extent that some of the […]

  • Money makes the (virtual) world go around…

    A hat tip to my friend John who sent me this link from the BBC site regarding Project Entropia who have just released a cash card which allows gamers to convert the currency the earn in-game, to real world dollars ? and this cash card can be used in cash machines around the world.

  • Ooooooh – I’m important and interesting… Listen to ME!

    The New Zealand press finally catch up, and run a story on blogging…

  • Everybody else is blogging so why can’t I?

    Now this blogging is by no means a new thing but it’s recently made the news and a recent NetGuide ran quite a comprehensive guide on bloggs and blogging in NetGuide – Issue 79. Now not being a wordsmith or journo by any stretch of the imagination, I’ll leave it to you to follow the […]