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Mixm8 is an online music community and social world currently in development by Outso. The world will cater for a wide range of music fans, from all walks of life, with the focus on bringing these individuals together due to common musical interests.

With dozens of virtual worlds for kids present on the internet today and their growing popularity amongst young children, how do parents know for sure which virtual worlds are entertaining, educational and safe all at the same time?

On November 2, TBD Consulting will host the grand opening of the Learning Innovation Campus (LIC), a unique learning incubator in the virtual world of Second Life®. The event will be held at 11am PST and 5pm PST in Second Life®.

Longest-running virtual Halloween Trick or Treat and Costume Party to kick off on Oct. 23rd.

The ASTD San Diego chapter has selected Jonena Relth, Esther Groves and Mike Abrams as session presenters for the upcoming November 4, 2009 conference entitled Your Turn to Learn.

On November 2, TBD Consulting will launch Learning Innovation Campus (LIC), a unique learning environment in the virtual world of Second Life®.

Animated Autos emerge as most requested Virtual Goods purchase

Tweens learn recycling concepts in virtual world play with “Recycle Quest”

The ASTD Cascadia chapter has selected Mike Abrams as one of their general session speakers for the upcoming September 23-24 conference titled The Evolution of Learning.

“Another Perfect World” illuminates the intersection of the virtual universe and real life

The latest research published by KZero shows that total registered accounts for the virtual worlds sector reached 579m in Q2 2009.

In less than 6 months, a brand new virtual world for kids will launch to children worldwide. Already gaining traction and buzz online, it is looking for cross platform collaborations in the form of animation, video games and publications.

A new virtual reality version of the Apollo 11 landing has been created in Second Life (TM) by Birmingham UK based virtual world specialists Daden Limited.

Exploring our planet and beyond in an exciting, positive and interactive way is what The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks Virtual World promises - a joint venture between John Bittleston & Eliza Quek and MediaFreaks Cartoon Pte Ltd.

Partnership with InComm extends IMVU virtual currency to more than 4,900 Rite Aid Stores in 31 states nationwide

A new way of bringing information together and sharing it amongst users has been launched today by Birmingham based virtual worlds consultants Daden Limited.

Knexus Digital has teamed up with Mary Ellen Gordon, MD at Market Truths to provide insights on media exposure via ‘Habbo Hotel’, ‘Second Life’ and the like!

Research is pushing back the frontiers of e-learning, allying the real and virtual worlds to enhance the learning experience.

Knexus Digital, the essential digital marketing resource, has released an online video explaining how to engage and target the right audience via in-game marketing!

Knexus Digital, the essential digital marketing resource, is producing an online video explaining how to engage and target the right customers via virtual worlds

Virtual Edge Summit 2009 releases program and opens registration for May 28-29 event in Santa Clara Ca. Conference to explore how virtual event and meeting technologies and best practices drive down costs, boost customer acquisition and retention.

Live Shakespearean Theatre Performed by Legendary Virtual Worlds Troupe Now Available Bi-weekly Anywhere With An Internet-Ready Computer!

The current issue of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT)’s peer-reviewed journal, ALT-J, is a special issue devoted to Learning and Teaching in Immersive Virtual Worlds.

Simulations International, a global provider of consulting, simulations and technology-based training, partners with ProtonMedia, creator of ProtoSphere®, the industry-leading solution for 3D immersive virtual worlds for enterprise collaboration.

The Federation of American Scientists unveiled an ambitious infrastructure for cataloging virtual environments called the Virtual Worlds Almanac. This wiki classifies virtual worlds and includes links to tools, news, and online reference materials.

Viamarcom's Recruitment manifesto: Going marketing, virtual and green and games! Never gamble with your staff.

The new solution allows training departments to create immersive training simulations in 3D learning worlds, such as Second Life using intuitive Graphic User Interface without need to program or involve software developers.

Viamarcom Recruitment: 'Boutique' Consultancy Fills Gap in Marketing Recruitment in Belgium. Viamarcom's Recruitment manifesto: Going marketing, virtual and green.

Corporations researching virtual worlds as a training tool quickly realize that they lack expertise to fully capitalize on the benefits and avoid costly mistakes. To mitigate this AHG started a series of new courses taught by a team of experts.

The first publicly available web browser for Second Life was launched today by virtual world consultants Daden Limited. The browser, called the Daden Navigator, allows residents of the virtual world to collaboratively browse the web.

Storyboards Online announced today that it has joined forces with ShanghaiPop to simultaneously launch the first of four issues of an American-style manga mini-series, MechTechs, and its coordinating virtual world in November.

A virtual newsreader is the newest recruit to the web-site of the Grimsby Telegraph. Developed by Virtual Character consultants, Daden Limited, the talking avatar reports current news stories for newspaper's online edition.

The 2008 Merovingi Fashion Awards geared up this week with their week-long fashion showcase as a prelude to the fashion awards gala on Saturday, April 26, 2008, which will be broadcast live on SLCN.TV from 4 pm to 7 pm PST.

An innovative automated website assistant, created by virtual character consultants Daden has generated over 10000 hits to Hanover's website in its first week. Called Hanover Helps, the assistant is based on chatbot technology created by Daden.

A new 9 point business plan has been released by virtual worlds specialists Daden Limited to help businesses and organisations make sense of the emerging phenomena of virtual worlds.

Bubbles of real thoughts float up and away from a fountain in this innovative new visualisation of the Twitter system from Virtual Worlds agency Daden Limited.

Aircraft hang in the air around you in an innovative new visualisation from Virtual Worlds agency Daden Ltd & aircraft tracking specialists fboweb.com. We believe this the first time that real-time aviation data has been displayed in a virtual world.

DADEN has over 10 years experience of building and using Virtual Worlds. We offer consulting advice, design & build services, and have special expertise in the areas of web and real world integration, and creating interactive virtual personalities.

Students to synchronise their real-life locations in a virtual campus with Cisco and Giunti Labs’ Technology.

Milan, Italy. September, 2007. Koinup srl is pleased to announce the launch of Koinup ( http://www.koinup.com) the first social network entirely dedicated to your virtual life.

Giunti Labs was named the ‘most innovative technology demonstrator’ at the OpeniWorld (OiW) event in New Orleans, USA, recently.

Giunti Labs, Coventry University’s Serious Games Institute and Cisco are collaborating to provide demonstration software showing what can be achieved in combining mobile and virtual worlds e-learning.

Tata Interactive Systems has participated in an online (‘in-world’) symposium on ‘Creativity in Second Life’ organised by the New Media Consortium.

Giunti Labs has launched eXact VLW™ (Virtual Learning Worlds), a revolutionary authoring environment, to create, manage and deliver 3D objects, artefacts and scenes within collaborative virtual learning worlds.