http://crowvalen.com The Second Life Rants and Virtual World/Social Network Rambles of Crow Valen/Chadrick Baker and Friends that I Love Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:56:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For those of you who know me, you remember Phreak Media, and Phreak Interactive, the content development company I served as Director of Business Development at from 2005-2007. We were the company that hosted the Virtual World interactive portion at Google Zeitgeist festival last year, and rebuilt the Google campus ... http://crowvalen.com/2008/10/06/romanians-are-rock-stars/ The news released today from cNet regarding Comcast's change in policy, was that Bandwidth will soon be capped past a particular point. Comcast offers no regulatory tools, or assistance in monitoring the cap. I'm sure people are writing to the complaint department, which you can do yourself here. This was my ... http://crowvalen.com/2008/08/29/an-open-letter-to-comcast/ I'm not going to sit here and write a large piece on Googles Virtual World, Lively, which has just launched into Beta. Or how it may or may not compete with other virtual spaces like Second Life. I'm just going to post a link, and we'll all discuss later. LIVELY, Enjoy. http://crowvalen.com/2008/07/08/the-virtual-world-endgame-has-begun-googles-lively/ It's simple, I have my reasons. See: http://crowvalen.com/2008/06/12/im-voting-republican-and-this-is-why/ The question is answered: http://isbarackobamamuslim.com/ And for the less Academic types: http://isbarackobamaamuslim.com/ Thanks to Elissa Rose for the links! http://crowvalen.com/2008/06/09/is-barack-obama-a-muslim/ That's correct. You read that right. I'm attempting to become a minister of the Church of Google. Check it out: Google is God. Also, it's been "wagged", read the article here: Chadrick Worships at the Church of Google http://crowvalen.com/2008/05/29/becoming-a-minister-for-the-church-of-google/ Airs today. Keiko is a well known Second life musician. Here's a preview: http://crowvalen.com/2008/05/28/mtvs-true-life-covers-second-life/ You are dividing our party and you've already lost. Read and upload a photo. It's almost immediate: http://www.hillarypleasestop.com/ http://crowvalen.com/2008/05/14/hillary-please-stop/ I'm not going to bore everyone with a long post about how after leaving Linden Lab, finding a fit I trusted to go to develop Virtual worlds with, that I felt could actually offer the type of quality in a workplace that I felt at Linden in the early years, ... http://crowvalen.com/2008/05/09/metaversatility-defining-good-vitrual-content/ We bring you an intermission to Elissa Rose and Derek Maune's post's on Social Networks and their inevitable failures. Long term, Social Networks and Virtual spaces will converge, and we'll probably refer to them as Social Spaces. How will we decide to drop the flat Social Networking? Maybe this video ... http://crowvalen.com/2008/05/01/further-proof-social-networking-sites-are-dead/