Posts Tagged ‘Second Life’

mg // 27.07.2009

The Five Most Promising Gaming Startups

There’s a lot of movement in the mobile entertainment market - the most popular gaming titles are now available in special versions for smartphones and other mobile devices to provide gaming fun anytime, anywhere. Tiburon-TV today introduces five promising players in the mobile gaming market: Zed, exozet games, sMeet, gimigames and urban team with FastFoot-Challenge.

Zed is the world’s Number One in mobile entertainment in terms of revenue and geographical presence. The company holds a portfolio of more than 200 games compatible with the majority of handsets on the market. At the end of the year Zed will start its own movie called „Planet 51”

Ever wanted to play your favorite adventure game or boardgame in a mobile version? Berlin-based exozet games develops and produces mobile versions of popular gaming titles - boardgame adaptations like Ingenious and Settlers of Catan as well as PC and console games. Click here for a exozet presentation from Mobile Monday Berlin.

Online gaming platform gimigames has just been launched about one month ago: To start with, the Berlin-based company offers three brain jogging games – “Super Sudoku”,  “Moneymemo” and “Captain Math”. For every new player gimigames offers one Euro as a starter gift…

sMeet is a social virtual world like Second Life and Habbo Hotel. It allows you to create your own 3D look, furnish your own rooms, entertain yourself and show off your singing talents on the sMeet screens. You can meet with your friends as well as with new people and even get virtually married in sMeet! German startup urban team has won the "Best Real World Game" Award 2009 with its pilot project FastFoot-Challenge. The various players of the GPS Multiplayer Action Game have 25 minutes to catch the Protagonist – each of them equipped with a GPS enabled mobile phone. Click here to watch the FastFoot-Challenge trailer.

Next Monday: "The Five Most Promising Educational Startups"

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mg // 17.07.2009

Events2go – PICNIC: Three days of ideas, fun and sensory stimulation

The countdown is on for PICNIC09: There are still 67 days to go until the fourth edition of PICNIC will take place on September 23-25, 2009 at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. This year’s event will be focusing on new media, mobile technologies and the changes produced by the clash of the old and new world.

PICNIC is a festival with a cutting edge conference program featuring keynotes, interactive experiences and matchmaking sessions designed to evoke an emotional reaction through "quirky surprises". The PICNIC09 speaker line-up features amongst others Philip Zimbardo, Niklas Zennström, Gerd Leonhard, Tomi Ahonen and Jeff Jarvis.

PICNIC09 will be featuring two big competitions: The Green Challenge, a global competition for the most innovative products or services that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the Vodafone Mobile Clicks finale, awarding 150,000 Euros to the most innovative mobile applications. To get in touch with the PICNIC team write to info [at] crossmediaweek.org. Click here to buy tickets.

Among the many successful entrepreneurs and creative minds that have been interviewed by Tiburon-TV's Viktoria at PICNIC08 was Jure Cuhalev - founder of Zemanta, inventor of smart rabbit Nabaztag Rafi Haladjian as well as Philip Rosedale - creator of the virtual world Second Life. Click here for all of Viktoria’s interviews from PICNIC08.



Next Friday's "Events2go" will be covering Slush conference in Helsinki - an event for startups by startups. Stay tuned!
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mg // 10.02.2009

Philipp Bouteiller – sMeet: Vanity makes money @ Hasso Plattner Ventures

Philipp Bouteiller is COO at sMeet.com and one of its co-founders. Like Second Life and Habbo Hotel, sMeet is a „social virtual world, where you can meet with your friends, meet new people, entertain yourself, watch videos and follow lifestreams.“ It’s a very simple and intuitive solution – „you just open your browser and there you go“, says Philipp, who loves Second Life himself, but finds it „very complex and more for geeks“. He adds „sMeet is Flash-based, not so comic-like and has a slightly older audience than our competitors.“ (Competitor Google Lively has been shut down at the end of 2008. There are several blogs covering the demise like Virtual World Watch, educational development center or Picking Up Sticks.) sMeet’s basic equipment is for free so its main driver for money is vanity: „The moment you want to dress up nicely or furnish your room a little bit more elaborate“ says Philipp, „you have to pay“. The company has built the virtual world for „Deutschland sucht den Superstar“ - the „American Idol“ Format - based on an „exciting“ cooperation with RTL Television. „In 2009, we want to become even more attractive and sign new TV stations“, adds Philipp. Right now, sMeet has around ½ million users and is growing very fast, reaching break-even at the end of the year. Philip points out that the „recession affects sMeet in a positive way. As a parent you have to entertain your kids. Either you spend $20 for cinema tickets or $5 for new clothing for your kids in the virtual world where they can entertain themselves for hours. Also, sMeet is about interaction and learning in a controlled environment.“ sMeet is one of the companies financed by Hasso Plattner Ventures, „an extremely supportive and loyal“ investor. Philipp finds that „particularly in crisis times, it’s good to have a strong and independent partner.“ But according to Philipp „recession also means that a lot of talent is coming on to the market, so it’s good for us. We are always looking for talent, especially in creative design. The best value right now would be to have a very strong art director.“ With regard to starting a company, Philipp advises: “Go out there and do it quick!“ As Viktoria puts it „go and run and have fun“ ;) In order to learn more about Hasso Plattner Ventures, please watch Viktoria’s interview with Eran Davidson, President and CEO of HPV, which has been shot at the SIME event in Stockholm in November, 2008. More videos related to Hasso Plattner Ventures will be shown in the days to come @ www.tiburon-tv.com
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vt // 27.10.2008

Second Life: better than the real world? – Philip Rosedale @ picnic

"... 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:
picnic conference amsterdam 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.
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