Reuters Opens Bureau in Second Life
Woke up and found an email from Reuters journalist Adam Pasick in my Inbox. Returers now has a news bureau in Second Life and Adam will be keeping regular office hours, as shown on his calendar.
Adam will be known in-world as Adam Reuters; I guess Linden Lab is now offering custom last names, as rumored.
The bureau features live video feeds and a Reuters HUD (Heads-Up Display) that I’ve not yet had a chance to try out. Here’s a photo from the lobby:
There’s also a web page full of Second Life news (with an RSS feed), a blog roll of some great Second Life blogs (and mine too :-), and currency conversion. More info on the island and a shot of the HUD can be found on The Daily Graze.
They are taking this virtual world pretty seriously, and you should too.
Hey Jeff, good post on Second Life. I am a big believer in virtual worlds, animation and graphically-rich environments and their ability to engage users with interaction, choice and freedom. While most of the attention resides in MMORPGs or MMORPG lites, like a Second Life, there is also a great way for corporate organizations to draft off of the same trends. Our Company, Oddcast, for example, has developed a speaking avatar platform that allows corporations and small merchants to implement virtual marketeers and salespeople on their site to help promote products/services, differentiate listings, navigate traffic to desired locations and ultimately, to increase conversions. Everyone talks about online marketing and sophisticated commerce engines, but without the ability to optimize conversions, these costs are hard to justify. Avatars, online identities and interaction should not only be a part of game environments, but the business environment, as well. It would be great to find time to muse more on this topic.
Comment by Shaival Shah — 10/16/2006 @ 9:03 am
[...] Here is the slurl of Project Green Hands at SL if you care for it. It is no Reuter’s Island in Second Life( BTW Reuters opened shop - via Jeff - in SL recently and it Rocks! - bandwidth and server performance permitting ) [...]
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