It’s a metaverse murder mystery, caught on tape.

Courtesy of SLObserver.com.

In an article on social media and marketing.

Nice article today in the Innovation Section.

Our own Rodica Buzescu was just featured in this article in the Boston Globe.

The article covers a variety of subjects including the CyberONE course at Harvard and a broad array of philanthropic and business related initiatives in Second Life. Here’s a little excerpt:

“Rodica Buzescu of Somerville, who graduated from Harvard in June, is a project manager for Millions of Us, a California-based start-up that helps companies establish a presence in Second Life.

Millions of Us joins a coterie of companies and individuals making a living developing objects and experiences in Second Life. It’s created virtual Toyotas and built the virtual loft where Warner Bros. invited avatars to preview Regina Spektor’s latest album a month before its release.”

Go Rodica!

Laura Wegner of ad agency Ralston360 came by our new office in Sausalito about a month ago and shot this interview with me that does a great job of shining a very bright light on what an immense dork I look like on camera. Also how often I say “Um” and “Right”. Oh well, enjoy the laugh. She shows off some of our work and also some cool builds by our friends at Rivers Run Red and Aimee Weber Studios.

This was a fun interview to do — it’s always interesting how you can say so much and what ends up in the article is the phrase “digital tumbleweed”. Read it here.

Today, Millions of Us launched “Inside Millions of Us”, a new open-enrollment group within Second Life. This group will be the social hub of all Millions of Us activity.

If you are interested in what Millions of Us is up to and want to be the first to hear of the exciting events and launches then you will want to join “Inside Millions of Us”

For developers interested in joining the Millions of Us fold, we will also be making early announcements of potential openings via Inside Millions of Us

Lastly, we want there to be a tangible benefit for being a member of our extended family. So for example, for invitation-only events, members of Millions of Us we have preferential invitation treatment over non-members.
What are you waiting for? Join “Inside Millions of Us”!

This is a really cool one. I’ve loved Talib Kweli since the early days when he used to rhyme with Mos Def — now we’ve launched a build fo his new album, “Listen”. It’s a huge brownstone in true Bedford Stuyvesant- style with turntables, video, pool table, bar, and on and on and on.

Great work on the build by Lordfly Digiridoo with the impeccable and inspired urban stylings of BushidoBrown Hightower.

The best part of this project came when we were struggling to get Talib Kweli’s avatar approved — Lucky Millionsofus had produced a great avatar but we couldn’t quite get the bagginess of the clothing sufficient to satisfy Kweli. His manager had seen BushidoBrown and said,, we want to look like that guy. Bushido’s response? “They can’t look like me!” The ultimate virtual world vs. real world celebrity smackdown.

Here’s a slurl to the build - enjoy! Also co-located on Spin Martin’s Saijo City.

Following up on the recent lecture by Wired’s Editor in Chief, Chris Anderson, that we did with Hamlet, we’re opening the gates to Wired’s SL HQ located here. The build is the result of some great and inventive building by MOU’s own Minxeh Volos, with scripting/effects by Falldeaf Weeks. We were inspired by that feeling one gets when first looking at a computer’s motherboard — the surprise at how the structures that move information so closely resemble a miniature city. We thought it would be cool to create a build where humans/avatars could move around like bits and electrons. After all, in SL, we’re all just data anyway.

Join us for the opening party this Saturday, October 21st, from 4-7 pm SLT.

She’s done! With a little help from her friends, she built 2 blocks of New York, the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Yellow Cabs, the list goes on and on. Now for some sleep. Thanks go out to everyone who watched, cheered, supported and otherwise made this the incredible experience it was — without you all it wouldn’t have been possible. Special thanks to Netro our streaming video providers who held our backs when traffic exploded on Friday, to Philip and the amazing folks at Liquid Agency who produced and ran the event, to Rohit Bhargava of OgilvyOne PR who brought us into the mix, the folks at Datavision for hosting it and of course, to Intel.