Second Life Future Salon

SL Future Salon April 30! :: Machinima with Paul Marino and Pierce Portocarrero

For our April SL Future Salon, we will be exploring the wonderful world of machinima!  Paul Marino and Pierce Portocarrero will be joining us in order to discuss this exciting narrative medium.

Paul Marino is Executive Director and co-founder of the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences, and author of 3D Game-Based Filmaking: The Art of Machinima.  His blog can be found here: Thinking Machinima. 

Our very own Pierce Portocarrero is responsible for bringing us the Ideal World documentary, following the second life of Nephilaine Protagonist. Pierce's passion for machinima is infectious!  After having spoken with him, I'm firmly convinced that machinima is even better then the development of sliced cheese!  More of his work can be found on Vimeo.

This Future Salon will be held on April 30th at 5:00pm SL time on the Electric Sheep Companies newest island: Media Island.

Metaverse Roadmap Project: Participation and call for resources!

The Metaverse Roadmap website went live this past week!  For those just tuning in, the Metaverse Roadmap project is a foresight document that the Acceleration Studies Foundation (parent org to the Future Salon Network) is creating in collaboration with as many forward thinking organizations and individuals as we can bring to the table.  We've already kicked off by having a few of brainstorming sessions at Etech, and the Game Developers Conference, and will begin to put the pieces together to author the document at the Metaverse Roadmap Summit in just a few weeks.

We want to involve as many forward thinking individuals and other people interested in the emerging Metaverse as possible in this process, and will have followup sessions to review drafts of the roadmap at various venues in the coming months.  Information here as it becomes available.

At the present, we are putting together a resources page. We originally started compiling this information for our own internal use, but quickly realized that it would be more valuable as a public resource!

We've been searching across the web to find as many good resources as possible,  but would like some help in making it as complete as possible.  If you're interested in throwing a few links in our direction, check out what we have so far and shoot us an email with any additions and suggestions you might have!

Glitchy Link - Simply Google

Simply Google

An "everything Google" search/blog/sites/download aggegrate.

Glitchy Link - Google Calender

 Google unveils Web-based calendar

Glitchy Link - Tringo ships

Tringo goes GBA

"Tringo will be available for the bargain price of $14.99."

Update: Chris @ The Daily Graze has Tringo thoughts, here

Glitchy Link - 1986 World Series re-enacted in RBI Baseball

"While trying to win a You Tube video contest, Conor of San Diego Serenade put the above piece of video, baseball, and gaming art together. He writes: "I decided that I wanted to enter this YouTube Cybersmack contest and win $25,000 for creating the best internet viral video, so I decided to re-enact Game Six of the 1986 World Series in RBI Baseball, my favorite video game of all time... So this took a long time, and I heard more of the RBI theme music in those hours than a man ever should."

via Joystiq

Glitchy Link - Disney MST3K

Wall Street Journal article (Reg Required)

Jeff Jarvis' snippets...

"On April 30, ABC will unveil a revamped Web site that will include a “theater” where people with broadband connections can watch free episodes of “Desperate Housewives,” “Lost” and other hit shows on their computers. Episodes will be available the morning after they air and will be archived so people can eventually view a whole season...."

"As part of an effort to engage the online community, viewers from around the country will be able to gather in “rooms” online to watch an episode of, say, “Lost” and chat about it."

Glitchy Link - 9/11 photos in 3D of 9/11, taken in downtown NYC

Boing Boing: Photos in 3D of 9/11, taken in downtown NYC

Glitchy Link - Google aims to track users with wi-fi

Google aims to track users with wi-fi

"Google aims to be able to track its users to within 100-200 feet of their location through new wireless networks in order to serve them with relevant advertising from local businesses."

via Drudge

RELATED: Disney offers kid-tracking via mobile

Glitchy Link - Far Cry Instincts Predator: Map Making Madness Contest

Far Cry Instincts Predator: Map Making Madness Contest - Xbox.

Which SL designer can go in there and take home the grand prize??

via Joystiq