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"... a lot of human activity will be replaced with an equivalent in the virtual world..." and “The question is whether you’re being challenged and learning in a way that is less than or greater than the Real World experience ... I think that virtual worlds, like Second Life, have the potential to provide a more challenging intellectual environment than, in many cases, the Real World around you. And so time spent in the Virtual World, I suspect, will come to be almost an educational requirement rather than something that is viewed as potentially a problem for you.” that are statements by Second Life's founder Philip Rosedale, who after 9 years of intensively working on Second Life decided to take a step backward and passing the position of the CEO to someone else. In this way he is now able to focus more on the strategical development of SL, which includes ideas like enabling small entrepreneurs from development countries a business opportunity through SL. Learn more about his ideas in the following interview: I met Philip Rosedale at the PICNIC conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands. There creative minds from all over the world came together from September 24th to 26th to intensively discuss and share ideas and thoughts.

Watch more interviews of that event:
• crowd funded music: sellaband.com - Pim Betist
• first connecting rabbits and then connecting everything: violet.net - Rafi Haladjian
• hassle free contacts for everybody: soocial.com - Stefan Fountain
• a blogging tool to enrich your content: zemanta.com - Jure Cuhalev
• put out your own talent contest: talentsplanet - Dick Rempt
• a new conference for young talents under 30: sandbox - Nico Luchsinger and Antoine Verdon
• how to accelerate european business ideas: play & build - Mathias J. Holzmann
• endemol goes for platform independence and cross media: Rocco van den Berg and Frank Geusebroek
• how to get young adults into charity by having fun: Martin de Ronde about onebiggame.org
• spreading viral videos in the web: bemba.com - Arne Dibbits
• mass collaborated creativity worldwide: openad.net - Katarina Skoberne
• publish your own book: blurb.com - Eileen Gittins
  • Linden Lab CEO stepping down [Second Life]
  • Linden Lab CEO: No credit crunch in 'Second Life'
  • Philip Rosedale Doesn't See Browser-Based Virtual Worlds As A Threat to Second Life. Is He In Denial?
  • Philip Rosedale - Open Source Second Life

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A global network and incubator for ambitious young people, that's what co-founder Mathias J. Holzmann has in mind for his startup playandbuild. He aims to accelerate the process of bringing profit and even non profit business ideas to success, European wide or even worldwide. Having young starters as a focus, that is a similarity to Nico Luchsinger and Antoine Verdon, the founders of the sandbox conference, which targets young talents under 30. From September 24th to 26th 2008, hundreds of creative minds from all over the world came together in Amsterdam, Netherlands for the third PICNIC conference to share ideas and thoughts. For nice pictures, shot at the event follow the link to the eventsite picnicnetwork.org

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• spreading viral videos in the web with bemba.com - Arne Dibbits @ PICNIC
• openad.net - Katarina Skoberne
• soocial.com - Stefan Fountain
• violet.net - Rafi Haladjian

At the picnic conference last week in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nico Luchsinger and Antoine Verdon told me about their idea to set up an own conference which is focusing especially on young talents under 30. The first event will take place in 2009 in Zürich and will have INNOVATION as central theme. If you want to know more about the sandbox conference and what there will be different compared to other conferences and barcamps, just have a look on the video. The two ambitious co-founders of the sandbox-network are themselves still very young, both 25. For more information about Nico Luchsinger you can check out his professional profile on the sandbox-network site. There you find links to his facebook profile and his twitter account. Additionally you can go to his personal blog written in German. Nico also works as a journalist and has done several interviews with swiss startups. For more information about Antoine Verdon also have a look on his profile on the sandbox-network site. There you find links to his facebook and xing accounts and you can also decide to follow him on twitter. They have also set up an own facebook site for their sandbox-network. The group already has more than 430 members, which illustrates the already existing bigger interest for their conference. And of course they do have a company blog. A German presentation of their idea you can find here. The third PICNIC conference took place from 24th to 26th of September 2008. Offering a huge program and bringing together thousands of creative minds from all over the world. For pictures, shot at the event follow the link to the conference site picnicnetwork.org