Life on Line #2

Here’s the latest episode of Life on Line, with an interview with me about Twinity.

Live broadcast: Benjamin Lebert reads from his latest novel

The Twinity community can look forward to experiencing another real Berlinian event: On this issue of zitty Reader’s Lounge, 27 year old author Benjamin Lebert (“Crazy”) reads from his latest novel “Flug der Pelikane” (‘Flight of the Pelicans’). The zitty Readers Lounge in the Berlin-based kantine@berghain is broadcast live to the zitty editorial office at Hackescher Markt, which means that …

Chair in the Sky on Twinity

I love the name of this blog, and I like the new comments there about Twinity: So any way Twinity continues to improve. this is my current av evolution, she is almost ok. The movement of av’s is still awkward and she seems stoned all the time as she has this way of constantly gazing into the netherland. I am …

Krazy Kakashi on The Spirit

Krazy Kakashi has been keep a 3D avatar diary in Twinity and other virtual worlds. The latest entry, number 7, covers The Spirit in Twinity. Some excerpts: I decided to teleport to Berlin city centre a few minutes before the party to give me time to find the cinema, until a genius idea hit me…Twinity has a feature to teleport …

Twinity offers new forms of customer interaction

Over on MyCustomer.com, there’s a great post titled “Twinity offers new forms of customer interaction“. There’s some great discussion there: The company believes that modelling real locations is better for business than the ‘fantasy kingdom’ approach … Twinity has a virtual economy, together with tools that enable commercial partners to open up virtual extensions of their real-life businesses, including VoIP …

Getting around Twinity

Want to know about transportation options in Twinity? Let Jimmy Olsen tell you how to get around inside Twinity.

Virtual worlds rescue TV? or v.v.?

Gary Hayes has an interesting post called “Virtual worlds rescue TV? or v.v.?” with an interesting analysis of how traditional TV and film media has been used in virtual worlds, and some discussion of the benefits in each direction. There’s some nice mentions of Twinity and The Spirit in there: Twinity (by Metaversum, the German created virtual world) are a …