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Harvard Business School Braingain on Virtual Worlds

I was very pleased to be invited to speak at last Thursday’s BrainGain event on virtual worlds. This event was co-sponsored by Harvard Business School and the Harvard Interactive Media group.
The emerging theme of the event was the high-quality of virtual world experiences for education and business. The word “experience” was used frequently, and there [...]

Video Games Evolve: A Brief History from Spacewars! to MMORPGs

I was able to attend the opening of the Video Games Evolve exhibit last Monday at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. It’s amazingly cool that this kind of institution made the decision to host an exhibit on video games.
I had quite a bit of fun playing with Spacewars! and looking through the fantastic assortment [...]

Second Life Community Convention

I just returned from the Second Life Community Convention in Chicago. I really appreciate all of the wonderful people that I had the chance to meet (or smeet) or just spend time with. There wasn’t nearly enough time for all of the conversations that I wanted to have!
There were a wide variety of presentations. We’ve [...]

Ignite Boston!

I spent yesterday evening up in Cambridge at the geographically misnamed Ignite Boston event (hey, I voted for Ignite New England). The event is sponsored by O’Reilly, and the company was very well represented.
The keynote was a 20 minute talk by Scott Berkun, speaking about his book, The Myths of Innovation. He’s a great speaker, [...]