Sony is tempting the users of their Playstation Network with a virtual world.
Home is a series of virtual spaces and places. It’s different from Second Life in that you choose which space you want to visit, and then teleport there, instead of walking or flying like in Second Life.
The PlayStation Network, which currently has about 13 million PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable registered users, is integral to Home. The PSN is the network that users access to play each other in online matches, download games or videos to the hard drives of their consoles, and records a player’s success in…
Yet another relationship is ruined, due to Second Life. This time, the couple, Amy Taylor, 28, and David Pollard, 40, had gotten married in a lavish online ceremony, while also being married in real life. The couple met in an online chat room in 2003. It started out as an online relationship, but soon existed as well in the real world.
The wife began to suspect he was being unfaithful, catching his avatar having sex, online, with a cyber prostitute, and decided to hire an online private investigator to track her husband’s virtual activities.
Pollard admitted having an online relationship with a…
There is a report today of a woman in Japan, killing her online lover’s avatar. She apparently had been divorced, in game, and decided retribution was called for.
The woman, who is jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his identification and password to log onto popular interactive game “Maple Story” to carry out the virtual murder in mid-May, a police official in northern Sapporo said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.
This woman probably had never even met her “husband” in real life. The murder in question was merely a matter of knowing the victim’s…
I’ve spent the last couple of days trying to get tickets to, and attending a rally for Sarah Palin. I would not have known about it, if not for an email from the McCain campaign. I am not voting Republican, but I thought that my teenager would enjoy the experience, so I found out the best place to get the tickets, and we went this morning.
It got me to thinking about the difference in political advertising in the last decade or so. When I was a kid, we had yard signs and buttons and the occasional commercial on television. Now,…
I cannot escape from social media and I must admit, I am not running very fast either. This Presidential campaign season has shown that the internet is now more important than ever when it comes to elections. Barack Obama, part of the first generation to grow up on software, has shown his web chops time and time again. Unlike John McCain, Obama actually uses these social tools and so does his campaign.
This election year, I started to see real political movement and serious campaigning in Second Life. Netroots Nation (previously titled YearlyKos after the political blog, DailyKos.com) is a yearly…
