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Ernst & Young Uses Avatars to Test the Use of Virtual Worlds as a Way to Enhance Traini... - 0 views

www.outsourcing-journal.com/mar2009-acs.html

Second Life EarnstYoung accounting training

shared by Steven Hornik on 11 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Steven Hornik on 11 Mar 09
     
    Ernst & Young Uses Avatars to Test the Use of Virtual Worlds as a Way to Enhance Training for New Auditors
Steven Hornik

LSL Browser HUD - Second Life Wiki - 0 views

wiki.secondlife.com/...LSL_Browser_HUD

Second Life SL scripting SL browser RDECOM

shared by Steven Hornik on 16 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Steven Hornik on 16 Feb 09
     
    "Browser HUD" is a small HTML web-browser widget that appears in a 400x300 pixel window in the top-left corner of the screen. It will be used for our internal OI tutorial (replacing the attachment-based HUD).
Steven Hornik

Q3 closed on a high note with an unusually strong September « Official Second... - 0 views

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Second Life slq3

shared by Steven Hornik on 14 Nov 08 - Cached
  • In Q3, Residents spent 102.8 million hours in Second Life, up 8% from Q2 and 45% from the same quarter last year.  Peak concurrent users of 71,000
  • in Q3 to just under 2 billion square meters
  • measure of the gross domestic product in Second Life, grew 21% from the prior quarter to $102M -
Steven Hornik

My First Two Months at Linden Lab « Official Second Life Blog - 0 views

blog.secondlife.com/...first-two-months-at-linden-lab

shared by Steven Hornik on 25 Jul 08 - Cached
  • I’ve come to see a couple of use cases as future killer apps – namely virtual meetings and education.
  • 7.2 billion voice minutes making us one of the larger providers of VOIP services
  • Second Life is the only social media/social computing property where, at its core, user-generated content and the economy is the experience. As a result, our estimates place our monetization levels at 3-30x that of major media and social computing properties.
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  • We generate revenue by selling land (where merchants build stores, land owners rent houses, educators teach and companies meet) and collecting monthly maintenance fees (somewhat analogous to hosting services), charging for currency exchange services (Linden Dollars to US Dollars and vice-versa) and for search and classified ad placement. We also make money as the economy expands and we issue Linden dollars to stabilize the exchange rate.
  • You have all of the tools you’d use in a real world meeting
    • Steven Hornik
      Steven Hornik on 25 Jul 08
       
      I'm not sure this is accurate, I'd like to see these tools - like interactive web pages, collaboartive work tools (i.e. Office Suite). I'm sure they are coming....
  • Using the virtual meeting environment for education is an even more exciting killer app.
  • Seventeen of the top twenty universities in the US have land in Second Life.
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