Since Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises' gave it the best publicity it could dream of, the annual Pamplona Bull Run grew to be probably one of the most exciting (and uselessly dangerous) events in the world. Dozens of people get hospitalized each year, and number of victims since the records exist is 14 (far too [...]

YouCity, previously known for its high-quality interactive maps of New York, announced a new "hyper local social network website based on a unique 3D virtual New York City platform".
The idea behind the concept is to help users connect and share interests with local people, thus creating underlying communities in an immersive (sic!) virtual environment. In [...]

Several days ago, EON Reality announced the technical preview of EON Coliseum, a virtual platform intended to be a place where people can present their ideas, communicate complex concepts and collaborate using rich media objects.
In other words, EON Coliseum is platform for constructing virtual meeting rooms. The official brochure (pdf) states that the key [...]

How could Second Life be a life if there were no conferences organized in it?
Virtual Worlds-Best Practices in Education, a conference about benefits education could have from virtual worlds, is being held in Second Life these days (March 27-29). Ranging from rather philosophical and society-changing to more practical, some of the questions that participants of [...]

Second Life's Philip Linden complained a few days ago in a post about a curious incident with one of their meeting rooms.
The meeting room in question, situated in San Francisco, is set to permanently video-link to its very exact replica, which is - inside Second Life! This allows guys from SL to mix up real [...]