Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. Both events had their share of clunkiness.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

After BuzzFeed ’s article was posted, the two later responded to the situation with the “Web2 me vs. Web3 me” meme on Twitter, in which you essentially compare a photo of yourself in the real world with an NFT or avatar that’s supposed to represent you in the metaverse.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Liquid Death For giving the brand collab new life In a scene straight from the 90s, two girls fawn over a heartthrob in a teen magazine. The risk of such a project is that it will come across less as a utility for a healthier life balance and more like a corporate scolding. But instead of looking like Freddie Prinze Jr.,

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Skittish looks like a very cute version of social spaces in video games like Second Life or VRChat but built specifically to host online events. A lot of them didn’t feel like events to me,” Baio said in an interview with The Verge. They weren’t social in any meaningful way.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

It was founded to make interactions with characters in virtual worlds and games more engaging and lifelike,” Gelfenbeyn told TechCrunch in an email interview. This is what we are addressing by bringing virtual characters to life with AI.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Facetime : While Mark Zuckerberg is promising better metaverse avatars, Estonia-based Ready Player Me is delivering. Andreessen Horowitz led the company’s recent $56 million raise into the company that is building dynamic, animated game avatars for virtual worlds, Ingrid writes. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I jacked into The Matrix Awakens today after watching our exclusive interview with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss — they play Neo and Trinity, I’m sure you know — and hearing breathless praise around its Game Awards debut. And it’s free to download on those consoles right now, so you should really give it a go.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Serving them requires more than 10,000 NVIDIA GPUs mainly for AI inference, he said in an interview (subscription required). It created the 530-billion parameter Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model ( MT-NLG ) that powers TJ, the Toy Jensen avatar that gave part of the keynote at NVIDIA GTC last year. million users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

I've been attending the weekly Friday TechSoup meetings in Second Life and you run into the most fascinating people. Last week, I met an avatar named Budley Omegamu who turned out to be Sombit Mishra who is a Technology Associate at GlobalGiving. I didn't know Sombit until I met him - as they say - "in-world" in Second Life.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Virtual Environment and Avatars: Virtual learning environments bring the social interaction part of traditional classroom training into the e-learning world. Organizations are using virtual training coach also called avatar, who engages with the learners like a real human being.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

David and Randy (I've presented with them several times, hugged them, had beers with them, I've even hung out in our Nonprofit Commons in Second Life virtual island with them, so yes, we are on a first name basis) reminded me that innovation doesn't just happen.

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TechNode

MAY 31, 2024

Based on the published guidelines of the Yuanbao app, the consumer-oriented assistant currently offers multiple AI agents, similar to GPTs, which can be selected for various functions, including English-speaking practice, daily life translation, and avatar generation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

I mention this only because my life is now directly impacted by cancer in ways I could not have predicted a few months ago. I don’t have a Livestrong band on my Twitter avatar because it is the cool thing to do. Recently, my best friend Alyson (www.alysonwoloshyn.com) was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of Roo.io , a handy tool to record phone interviews on mobile devices. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. Silicon Valley North.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

OrganicMania or Lynn Miller who I met through Twitter and later interviewed me for this blog post about a year ago. The context at Blogpotomac was the question, "Did turning your Twitter avatar green in support of the Iraniian protests" really mean anything.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2022

This week, TC’s Sarah Perez spotted the rise of AI art apps all over the App Store , seemingly jumping off the success of Lensa AI’s viral avatar generators. Here are some of the fun and imaginative gift guides that the TC staff put together this week: 9 high-tech gift ideas for the cannabis users in your life. Gift guide corner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. I also discovered during our interview that Nedra plays the cello !) We need to establish a presence for our organization in Second Life,???

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of Roo.io , a handy tool to record phone interviews on mobile devices. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. Silicon Valley North.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Here’s the industry that we’re trying to fill, and now here’s a list of potential candidates, let’s interview these candidates.” ” And when you’re interviewing those candidates, of course, you’re going to ask some questions. Here are the characteristics that we’re looking for.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Today, an interview with Sibley Verbeck (Hathor's his virtual name), founder/CEO of the Electric Sheep Company , which does experience design for real-world companies in virtual worlds including Second Life. Why would they want a Second Life presence? It’s a little disjointed, but the key points are: 1.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

Later this week, I'll be interviewing Jerry Paffendorf , co-inventor of Destroy TV. Destroy TV is, among other things, an application that allows people who have the web but can't access Second Life (a 3D virtual world application), to operate a live camera in Second Life and chat with avatars in the world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

The additional funds shortly follow D-ID’s recent launch of its Deep Nostalgia follow-up project, LiveStory , which adds audio to the animated photos, allowing the people in the photos to narrate their own life histories. The company also recently announced plans to debut its own AI-powered video greeting mobile app, Wishful.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2022

All it took was a single airborne pathogen to reveal the precarity of modern life. His first move was to level up his home life. He’d been training his entire life for this. Then, six years ago, one of Kaplan’s associates murdered another associate and then took his own life, apparently over a girl. Morgues were full.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Arizona’s highest court has created a pair of AI-generated avatars to deliver news of every ruling issued by the justices, marking what is believed to be the first example in the U.S. Created with a program called Creatify, Daniel and Victoria in a way bring to life the court’s news releases.

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Recode by Vox

APRIL 7, 2025

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. And because of how it’s designed, it has this habit of reducing other people to crude avatars, which is why it’s so easy to be cruel and vicious online and why people who are on social media too much start to become mutually unintelligible to each other.

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