Universal Avatars

Everybody is talking about the forthcomming universal avatars, wich are able to enter mulitiple metaverses.
( http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/98792/0/201)

While all of you and the hole IBM developers crew had their christmas holidays, the allways buisy and never sleeping Jan and Tobias from the 24/7 and "one step ahead agency" YOUin3D.com did heavy research and tested the new Avatars !!

Click here to watch them at work!!

Tnx to LunAr Bailey for creating the highly textured costumized avatars! Good work!

Latenight newBERLIN Part two

Tze,tze, bin da schon wieder ( siehe Eintrag vom 17.Dezember)über ein YouTube gestolpert:


Also, das German Newbie Center entwickelt sich noch zum Bolly..äh...Börliwood;)

Second Life® - The place where men are raining

Good work:

http://www.myvideo.de/watch/2114854

The original Video here:

http://www.myvideo.de/watch/2764851

Wort des Jahres – "Second Life" auf Platz 7

Als erster IT-Begriff landete „Second Life“ auf Platz 7 der Liste. Dabei bezeichne das „Second Life“ nicht nur die gleichnamige Internetplattform, sondern „in erster Linie die neuen Möglichkeiten des Internets, in einer virtuellen Welt sozusagen ein »zweites Leben« zu leben“, so die GfdS.

Die komplette Top 10 im Überblick:

1. Klimakatastrophe
2. Herdprämie
3. Raucherkneipe
4. arm durch Arbeit
5. Dopingbeichte
6. Lustreisen
7. Second Life
8. Bundestrojaner
9. spritdurstig
10. Alles wird Knut

Quelle:

http://www.pcwelt.de/start/dsl_voip/online/news/139502/

Arams Bulletin

http://www.datenform.de/blog/2007/12/happy-birthday-newberlin.html

hehe;)

Second Earth

Very interesting article about the metaverses writen by Wade Roush on www.technologyreview.com
(Well, its from august 2007, sorry for the delay!):

"The World Wide Web will soon be absorbed into the World Wide Sim: an environment combining elements of Second Life® and Google Earth®."

http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=18911

Latenight newBERLIN

Neben unsere "offiziellen" Youtubes ( http://www.youtube.com/YOUseeMEin3D ) entwickelt sich scheinbar auch ein Unterground...
Durch Zufall bin ich auf diese Videos gestoßen:





Ich will mehr solche Filme sehen!!

Second Life® in Skype®

What to share your Second Life® experience with someone else? Or represent your self to your SL clients using your avatar?
Now you can - but you need crazy talk for skype software

Watch this tutorial:

Birthday Party Headquarter

Joo, we haben gefeiert am 7.12.07, siehe Flyer.
Fotos gibt es natürlich auch von der Party:
http://picasaweb.google.de/BERLINin3D/BDAYYOUseeMEin3Dcom

Wahre worte zum INTERNET 3D

Super Artikel, genau meine meinung (jAn)

http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/print/98792

Jan im Interview

Die SLinside-Mitarbeiterin WhoFliesWithTheWind Writer hat mit Jan ein Interview mit gemacht:

http://slinside.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=942&Itemid=1

Do you have 400 friends?

I Myself not! But our Myspace profile http://www.myspace.com/berlinin3d !
It has been added the 400th time last night.

A wild mixture of Avatars, SL™ Projects, Real Life Berlin stuff (clubs, bars, city districts e.g. Prenzlauerberg, agencies, art projects, radiostations, magazines, bands,...) and many, many, many private Users are on the list.

Second Life® und Deutschland im Pixelsebi-Ranking

Der Pixelsebi hat mal die Second Life®-internen Newsgruppen unter die Lupe genommen:
http://pixelsebi.com/2007-11-29/ranking-deutscher-unternehmen-in-second-life/

newBERLIN auf Platz 3 !! Gut, gegen Calli haben wir natürlich keine Chance, Apfelland wird sicher bald überholt...;)
Die Anzahl der Gruppenmitglieder spiegelt sicher auch die Beliebtheit der SL Präsentationen wieder. Schliesslich tritt man in SL einer Gruppe freiwillig bei. Funny frisch auf Platz 4 liegt in meinen Augen z.B. sicherlich an der hervorragenden Umsetzung.

Das unsere Second Life® Gruppe "newBERLIN_Streetlife" so gross ist, haben wir aber natürlich vor Allem unseren Inworld Community Managern Zap Hax (er ist Gründer der Gruppe) und LunAr Bailey zu verdanken... !!

If u nix speak english...

Secondlife.com jetzt auch in altdeutsch:

http://de.secondlife.com/

Und wir stehen mitten drin!!

BERLINin3D.com linked on official Second Life Page!

Ein Jahr harte SL Arbeit wurde belohnt...

Kugelsichere Westen!?

Drama im Commeta Convention Center:

http://blog.commeta.cc/virtueller-amoklauf-34

Gibt es denn immer noch keine kugelsicheren Westen auf slexchange !?

newBUSINESSwebsite YOUin3D.com

We launched our new Website:
http://youin3d.com/

And, yes, we shortened our Name from YOUseeMEin3D.com to YOUin3D.com !

Maybe you can keep this a lot easier in your mind!!

Virtual Universes Landscape

Interesting:
http://www.fredcavazza.net/2007/10/04/virtual-universes-landscape/

CYNETart Dresden

Sounds interesting:

http://body-bytes.de/02/?page_id=328&language=en

david orban blog (sl)

http://www.davidorban.com/blog/archives/secondlife/

web 2.0 expo berlin 2007

"About This Conference

To meet the increasing demand for Web 2.0 comprehension and skills, and to build a broader European Web 2.0 community, O’Reilly Media and CMP Technology have launched Web 2.0 Expo Berlin to take place 5-8 November, 2007 in Berlin, Germany. A companion event to the Web 2.0 Summit, it is the conference and tradeshow for the rapidly growing ranks of designers and developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, and business strategists who are embracing the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies."
http://berlin.web2expo.com/

my summary:

EVERYTHNG still seems to be about
- social -
so even google came up with:
orkult: build your OWN social network tool

THE big Q: How to build social NETWORKS and how to IMPLIMETING YOUR NEED (product);)
So the good news is: we already can do it better then in 2D boring text and picture content;
Second Life -the web 3.0- kicks in when web 2.0 really is developed and they start talking to each other.

Another topic, the web 1.0 just did the infrastructure, 2.0 is fillig it with applications,
and the future seems to use this all as a framework, to gain a totally user customized content,
filled with liquid kinds of widgets...
So we all work on a frame where user can paste in tools to fill this frame with thier content?

jAn

BTW: next time PLEASE better food and more coffee!!! (probably some chairs too;)
and MAYBE the BCC (Berlin Congress Center) would be the much better place for this event?

Pssst!!: We bought the 10% !!

Due to the emense cashflow of our company YOUseeMEin3D.com we bought a piece of the linden cake some month ago:

http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/11/05/linden-lab-investor-sold-10-percent-stake-report/

CHINA is COMMING?

zwar nen älterer link, aber da is was am kochen;
http://www.tecchannel.de/kommunikation/news/1737887/index.html

Real 2nd Life - immersive Second Life® integration

Found on Youtube:

newBERLIN in exberliner

After comprehensiv media-coverage in German-speaking RL-papers now also Englich-speaking magazin EXBERLINER reports on newBERLIN in the november issue. The double-page article features within the main-topic "Hi-Tech Berlin", next to reports on the Chaos Computer Club and the C-Base. Download the pdf of the report here

New SL™ Social Network: SLSCOUT.COM

Slscout.com is the Social Network for Secondlife Users which are interested in cool and exciting places in Second Life®. Feel Free to register to be part of the Community. Upload Images Upload Videos - Post Locations in the Forum, make Groups and say it to your friends in Second Life®.

http://slscout.com

Why Should an Architect Care about Computer Games?

SPACE TIME PLAY
Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level

For an English version check http://www.spacetimeplay.org

Buchpräsentation bei
Pro qm
Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2007
20.30h

Why Should an Architect Care about Computer Games?
Computerspiele und die Zukunft von Stadt und Architektur Buchvorstellung und Diskussion mit den Herausgebern und Gästen:

Aram Bartholl, Architekt und Medienkünstler
Friedrich von Borries, Architekt und Raumtaktiker
Matthias Böttger, Architekt und Raumtaktiker
Stephan Günzel, Philosoph und Medienwissenschaftler
Steffen P. Walz, Sozialwissenschaftler und Game Designer

“Space Time Play” ist eine Reise in die Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft von Computer- und Videospielräumen.

Was versteckt sich hinter der perfekten Mauer aus Tetris-Steinen?
Wie befreit man eine 3-D Welt von Terroristen?
Wie gewinnt man polygone Freunde in fantastischen Netzwerk-Räumen?
Und was passiert, wenn diese Spielen niemals enden?

“Space Time Play” behandelt vielfältige Spielräume: Von Meilensteinen der Computer- und Videospielgeschichte über virtuelle Metropolen zu den digitalen Überlagerungen physischer Räume.
Die behandelten Spiel umfassen kommerzielle Produkte, künstlerische Projekte und wissenschaftliche Experimente genauso wie neuartige Spiel-Instrumente zum Entwerfen und Planen von Räumen.



Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger (Hg.)
Space Time Play. Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level
Birkhäuser 2007, ISBN: 978-3-7643-8414-2


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Pro qm
thematische Buchhandlung zu Stadt, Politik, Pop, Ökonomiekritik, Architektur, Design, Kunst & Theorie
Almstadtstr. 48-50, D-10119 Berlin
Tel. 030.247 28520, Fax 030.247 28521 http://www.pro-qm.de

Metaverse Summit 2007 Newsletter

A few days left to save € 100 on Metaverse Summit registration

Special price registration closes Wednesday 29th October – register now for the Metaverse Summit in Berlin and save € 100.

Register here

YOUseeMein3D.com Jan Northoff & Tobias Neisecke GbR, agency for virtual worlds and 3D-visualisations, is official sponsor of the MetaverseSummit 2007 and besides, Northoff and Neisecke take part in the conference as a speaker.

The agency works on the advancement of 3D-internet and is realizing service-orientated representations and appearances of companies in virtual worlds as well as 3D-visualisations of all kinds. To demonstrate and implement their concept of merging virtuality and reality by a 3D-internet, the agency developed the platform newBERLIN in Second Life, the true to scale reproduction of Berlin. newBERLIN is an interactive platform that holds correspondence to reality and involves users by offering them entertainment, activities and information. At the same time, the virtual city provides ideal marketing value to the companies and bodies that are represented there. They can offer services and set up consumer-orientated virtual branches. In turn users get to know the companies and bodies in a playful way.

One way of merging reality and virtuality is by duplication events or broadcasting between the "worlds". YOUseeMEin3D.com is working in that field and therefore will broadcast parts of the Metaverse Summit 2007 via live-stream to newBERLIN.

At the conference Jan Northoff will discourse about why we need virtual shoes. He claims: "Virtuality is a lie: information is always real". Tobias Neisecke´s session is about the trend to reproduce cities in Second Life and on how to plan, manage, and promote a SL city. Why should a company have a branch in a SL city?At the time of the conference YOUseeMEin3D.com is celebrating its first anniversary and therefore there will not only be a talk looking back over the first year but also a big "birthday party". Every participant of the conference is invited to join the party on december 7th after the official program, as a relaxing finish.

Visit newBERLIN: http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Berlin/183/173/31

BERLINin3D.com listed on secondlife.com/join

newBERLIN is listed in the Comunity Gateway Beta Program. That means, if you have a german AP and press the "Join now" Button on www.secondlife.com , you can choose newBERLIN as Landing Point in Second Life®. See the list.

The Newbies will be teleported directly to our Orientation area, which is set up and supported by the German Newbie Center(GNC). Tnx to the creators Tom Lowe, Johann Ehrler.

Teleport to GNC in newBERLIN via SLurl and watch the up-popping newBERLINers!

happy birthday corecon convention center

happy birthday corecon convention center!

http://slinside.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=824&Itemid=1

http://franko.indigio.de/author/admin/

http://pixelsebi.com/2007-10-22/einladung-coreconcc-feiert-heute-abend-geburtstag/

http://blog.schaltzeit.de/2007/10/23/happy-birthday-corecon-convention-center/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16024242@N08/sets/72157602690056739/

Philip Rosedale im Interview

Yesterday I interviewed my good old friend Philip for german journal wiwo;)

http://www.wiwo.de/pswiwo/fn/ww2/sfn/buildww/id/126/id/315964/fm/0/SH/0/depot/0/

Virtual Worlds Forum London

http://www.bloghouse.org/en/blogs/virtualworldsforum

Solutions for Downtime

The newBERLIN Sandbox gets more and more popular. The newBERLIN Builder School offers a high class repertory of panels, see Eventcalendar. But what about downtime!? Aram Bartholl found a nice solution for all SL Building addicts in Berlin: the RL Sandbox. Watch this funny clip.

We had a nice session concerning the Berlin Sandbox at our flagstore before, see fotos here.

Viral Stickerting

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marquezill/1576149532/

Primglue

New!! Primglue!

Fine.

But we have problems with our sim borders in newBERLIN. Our visitors find themselves from time to time down in the cluttered cellar. Terrible. Nothing helps.

Is simglue already available!?

21th century fox

Fox , a freaky guy from switzerland, got used to interview as every time, when he is in Berlin.

This time about cyberspace, Second Life and 3D Internet.

ComMeta Convention Center

Yesterday, the CCC had its first aniversary. Big party in our Flagshipstore and inworld! Mixed reality.
Some RL impressions here
Some SL Impressions over there. Anyway, the RL visitors were so well entertained, amused (and mybe drunk) that we got a Jacket, a Pullover, a handy charger and a USB-Stick in our Lost & Found Folder...

The former called Corecon Convention Center switched name to ComMeta Convention Center.
Contact kahle@commeta.cc for virtual eventz/conferen-xing/lecturinx

Metaverse Summit 2007 in Berlin, 6-7th of December

METAVERSE SUMMIT 2007

Join the Metaverse Summit to explore and shape the future of the virtual and 3D Web

"What happens when video games meet Web 2.0? When virtual worlds meet geospatial maps of the planet? When simulations get real and life and business go virtual? When you use a virtual Earth to navigate the physical Earth, and your avatar becomes your online agent? What happens is the metaverse." (Smart, J.M., Cascio, J. and Paffendorf, J., Metaverse Roadmap Overview, 2007)

The web is moving from its 2D beginnings towards its virtual and 3D future. The Metaverse Summit will consist of two days featuring interactive sessions revolving the next generation of the internet - the Metaverse - in all its manifestations:

• Augmented Reality
• Lifelogging
• Mirror Worlds
• Virtual Worlds

The rapid development and exploration of 3D immersive environments is changing the way people communicate, collaborate, work and live. It is bringing about significant businesses as well as social and technological opportunities, challenges and questions. This unique event will bring together business leaders, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, technologists, futurists, and industry participants to spend two days discussing current and emerging social, economic and technological trends and issues around the 3D-enabled web, virtual worlds, immersive networks, and ubiquitous information.

The Metaverse Summit 2007 will be held at the Estrel Convention Center in Berlin, Germany, on December 06 - 07, 2007, and will include

• Keynotes and presentations of well-known industry leaders
• Panel discussions and roundtables
• Showcasing and demonstration of the latest technologies and services from leading companies
• Unparalleled networking opportunities

The Metaverse Summit, organised by Helmut Reul, is the must attend event of the year and you all invite to participate in this great event for the exchange of new ideas in this exciting field!

Please note this event is not part of the Metaverse Roadmap Project and is not affiliated with the Acceleration Studies Foundation.

For more information, please contact Helmut Reul at helmut.reul@gmail.com or +49 5961 271362.

http://www.metaversesummit.com/home

Coreon Convention Center feiert Geburtstag bei uns im Showroom

Geburtstag feiern im Alexa!

Das einjährige Bestehen des Corecon Convention Centers rückt immer näher und damit auch die Geburtstagsparty! Alle, die in der Nacht vom 22. zum 23. Oktober zusammen mit uns in den CCC-Geburtstag reinfeiern möchten, sind herzlich dazu eingeladen. Wo? - Ganz wie Ihr wollt! Ab 19:30 Uhr startet die Geburtstagsparty virtuell in Second Life UND real im Showroom der Agentur YOUseeMEin3D, den Erbauern von newBERLIN, im neu eröffneten Alexa Shopping Center, Alexanderstraße 4, Berlin.

Freut Euch auf ein spannendes Programm mit interessanten Vorträgen. Als Referenten erwarten wir Markus Breuer und Christian Scholz. Markus Breuer, CEO der Firma The Otherland Group und begeisterter Second Life-Bewohner, spricht über “Erfolgsmessung in virtuellen Welten”. In einem zweiten Vortrag referiert Christian Scholz - vielen besser bekannt unter seinem Second Life-Namen Tao Takashi - zum Thema “Second Life Architecture”.

Neben diesen beiden spannenden Vorträgen warten noch weitere Überraschungen auf alle Geburtstagsgäste, unter anderem wird unser DJ *pPlaylist für angemessene Partystimmung sorgen.

Wann: 22.10. ab 19:30 Uhr | Wo: virtuell im Corecon Convention Center in Second Life – hier der Teleport ins CCC // real im Alexa Shopping Center bei “New Berlin”

Programm

19:30 Uhr - Get Together
20:00 Uhr - Eröffnungsrede mit Sebastian Küpers
20:30 Uhr - Vortrag von André Winzer, Geschäftsführer der Schaltzeit GmbH: “Virtual Conferencing – Chancen einer neuen Kommunikation” und anschließend Neueröffnung des CoreconCCs unter neuem Namen
21:00 Uhr - Vortrag von Markus Breuer: “Erfolgsmessung in virtuellen Welten - Ansätze und Standards”
21:45 Uhr - Erinnerungen an das erste Jahr CCC: Interviews
22:00 Uhr - Vortrag von Tao Takashi: “Second Life Architecture”
23:00 Uhr - Geburtstagsparty mit DJ *pPlaylist

Text: Melanie Wentow
Foto: Walter Schalter

http://blog.schaltzeit.de/2007/10/16/geburtstag-feiern-im-alexa/

Sloodle - 3D Learning Management System

Sloodle is Open Source. We develop learning tools and structures for educators exploring 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments. Our first objective is to connect Second Life with Moodle.

Users: Click here to get involved... || Developers: See the dev resources...

See the Sloodle Wiki to find out how to install the Sloodle module and try out the Sloodle tools.

Current experimental applications:
Blog Toolbar, Chatcast, Enrollment booth, Gestures, Glossary, Grid Status, Quizchair, Real Names, Registration booth, Sloodle Set



http://www.trailfire.com/maxie/marks/19175

Roundtabel at the METAVERSE 07 CONVERENCE

http://metaverse07.com/de/talk.php?id=30

Headquarters at White Cube

Memespelunk Art Voice:

http://memespelunk.org/artvoice/?p=7

here our PICS
http://picasaweb.google.de/YOUseeMEin3D/SandboxBerlinAramBartholl

of this project:
http://www.datenform.de/sandbox.html

Better late then never...

Even if Google can catch up with scetch up, Second Life is in the better position to win the GAME.
Althought i´m curious:

http://www.pressetext.at/pte.mc?pte=070925040

neu mail:

hello jan,

hier ist die website von der ich gestern gesprochen habe:

www.Prodiction.de

Fotos from January Lightfoot at ARS electonica

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7290795@N03

More Fotos from ARS Electronica from Tobi Leingruner

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tobi-x/sets/72157601993201660/

Second Life Interview mit Robin Harper

"Wir glauben an offene Systeme"

Die Online-Welt "Second Life" ist auf der Ars Electronica in Linz allgegenwärtig. Robin Harper, Vizepräsidentin des "Second Life"-Betreibers Linden Lab, hat mit ORF.at über falsche Erwartungen an virtuelle Welten, Kinderpornografie im Metaversum und über die Open-Source-Pläne von "Second Life" gesprochen...
http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/220568/

January Lightfoot at ARS electronica 2007:
Videos




Here i ran trough the picture at "First and Second City"
http://fm4.orf.at/connected/219808/main


Pictures
http://picasaweb.google.com/BERLINin3D/ARSElectronica2007

the matrix has me,
as i can see,
the digital rain
falls everywhere...

Welcome to our blog
introducing first:
January Lightfoot and his adventures with Jan Northoff

Logbook, first entry, re-entry:
this story was born on 06.dec.2006.
now raised up, and living and working in newBERLIN

www.BERLINin3D.com
www.YOUseeMEin3D.com
www.MAPinMAP.com

BERLIN in 3D

BERLIN in 3D
www.BERLINin3D.com
www.YOUseeMEin3D.com

BERLIN in Second Life Germany Deutschland Vituelle Welten Virtual Worlds