Posted in Extremism/Terrorism, News on June 18, 2008 | No Comments »
The Center For Social Cohesion in the UK has published a report titled ‘ The Virtual Caliphate: Islamic Extremists and their Websites’.
Download pdf here.
Posted in News on May 21, 2008 | No Comments »
article from forbes magazine
Posted in News on May 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Researchers teach ‘Second Life’ avatar to think TheStar.com - Business - Researchers teach ‘Second Life’ avatar to think
May 16, 2008
MICHAEL HILL
The Associated Press
TROY, N.Y.–Edd Hifeng barely merits a second glance in “Second Life.” A steel-gray robot with lanky limbs and linebacker shoulders, he looks like a typical avatar in the popular virtual world.
But [...]
Posted in News on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Good piece in the FT by David Wortley on business use of 3-D worlds. He specifically mentions the need for enhanced security as a prerequisite for wider adoption of virtual environments by business,
“For commercial operations to settle with confidence into virtual worlds, far more work is going to be needed on security. It is [...]
Posted in News, Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Interesting profile — in which he discusses Second Life’s economy and the challenge of law enforcement (or not) in a globalized virtual word operating across legal jurisdictions. Worth a read:
Link here.
Announcement of new Linden Lab CEO, Mark Kingdon here.
Posted in Fraud, News, Software Vulnerability on December 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Wired reports that online games are going to use software that examines how users behave in games and then flags irregularities to prevent ‘cheating’ within the games. As I have argued here this idea could be used to modify defined anti-social behavior within virtual environment.
Article here:
Online Games Use Fraud Software to Combat Cheats
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Posted in News on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
OU to build virtual world for Columbus Police with Homeland Security grant money
Ohio University’s School of Telecommunications and Game Research and Immersive Design (GRID) Lab have won a two-year, $702,000 grant to create a virtual world capable of making the real world safer.
The grant will help fund development of interactive digital environments in 30 high-profile [...]
Posted in News on November 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Lord Triesman - minister for Innovation and Universities in the UK commented on virtual worlds from a government perspective at the conference in London.
Most interestingly he said he hoped the operators of the worlds would take a lead in regulating the worlds - something which hasn’t happened yet. He also stated there was a certain [...]
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism, News on November 6, 2007 | No Comments »
The EU is seeking to combat the use of the Internet by terrorists by making the creation of web sites that encourage violence or explain how to make bombs a criminal offence.
Link to news.
No mention of virtual worlds yet.
Posted in Crime, News, tagged pedophilia, second life, sky news on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Sky News (the UK arm of the News Corps TV news network) has run a story on the use of Second Life by virtual pedophiles. Seen here on You Tube.
These stories aren’t new but the Sky News report was well done and actually showed the sites used by those engaged in what is [...]
