Search engines are the virtual malls where searchers window shop for their next purchase, from whichever device is most convenient. That would be ignoring the reality of the many, diverse hands – merchants, marketers, copywriters, front-end...
This complex set of online behaviors needs to be well-tracked to avoid letting the potential customer walk out of the virtual store empty-handed. The reality is that conversion is rarely a quick event.
In this case, we've been running our Virtual Star Parties on Google+, where we hook up telescopes live into a Google+ Hangout so people can see objects in the night sky and even make requests. FC: I know there's a perception out there that Google...
The Hangout-inspired video messaging also brings a variety of fun effects using augmented reality such as virtual costumes. Google is removing the video chat function from Gmail that has been available since 2008 and replacing it with a Hangouts...
Brands and marketers must keep pace with advancements in technology as it relates to the retail experience, including mobile/social integrations, virtual reality and dynamic display, and more. While retailers in the fashion space have been toying...
The thought of making money through an oxymoron such as "virtual land" seems ridiculous. But in the past several years, as the economy has gone more and more sour, the monthly price of virtual land in Second Life has not dropped.
The number of times I've had a discussion revolving around the reality vs.unreality of virtual worlds are uncountable. A virtual world is so much more complicated than an online store, or a video game, or a social network.
Machinima.com is a gaming and media streaming website that aims to be a hub for machinima, the art of creating animated videos in real-time virtual 3-D environments. So, the YouTube audience is bigger than the primetime television audience for the...
While the virtual horse and bunny people continue their legal battle (yes, still), the market for breedable pets was just waiting for someone to kick the entire affair up a notch, by developing a completely different product for people to focus on.
This is a moment at which they could potentially lure people back into the virtual world to shore up losses from the past 18 months or so. So reinventing search to reflect that reality was something they were eager to acheive.
If what rafferten says is true, it means that (watch this, here's the punchline) zFire had the means to access, take, and use or resell, anywhere, on any virtual world grid, any object that had ever seen sent to him for a script.
With this push toward opening the virtual environment up to these larger arenas, come the problems of privacy that they tackle and share (and very often completely screw up). Until they take that reality seriously, and work to address these needs...
However, as I have pointed out ad nauseam by now, this is a false lens by which to view the platform of a virtual world. was a farce all along, designed to distract people into garnering more and more votes and not really paying attention to the...
However when things are hard wired into a system, such as the case with a virtual environment like Second Life, you start to have problems and need creative solutions to solve them. But in Second Life where all content is user created, advancing...
Meteor was spawned from the cofounders of neopets.com, an early virtual gaming venture that sold to Viacom for $160 million in 2005. The Hello Kitty app referenced in "Social Intelligence for Facebook Marketing" takes one simple (but powerfully...
What also seems important to the Lab is to set itself up as a leader in the booming virtual goods market. It's not just about SL itself, it's about the virtual goods market in general. People are still dubious about virtual worlds, despite the hard...
It's part and parcel of the Second Life experience -- the molding of your virtual body into whatever you think it should be. On Tuesday, PayPal announced a new system for micropayments for virtual goods, and Facebook signed up.
JC Penny are using a virtual dressing room which allows shoppers to try on clothes in the convenience of their own home by overlaying clothes over you to see how it fits. Google Goggles currently blends Augmented Reality with visual search.
But in a virtual world, such as that found in Second Life, gravity is optional. For the next 3 weeks, SL Virtuatect and RL designer, Avril Korman, will share her thoughts on Second Life and human behavior in virtual worlds.
There has to be a real offer of value that goes beyond virtual incentives. Reality Check-In But the thinking falls apart with the reality that most SMBs don't have the time, technical competence, and inclination to launch and manage these promotions.
