The Official vBusiness Expo Media Partners

Submitted by Caleb Booker on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 16:49

ANNOUNCING the official media partners for this July's vBusiness Expo. These represent some of the best resources for information about how virtual worlds fit with enterprise, and what to look out for in the future.

Virtually Blind, edited by Benjamin Duranske, covers legal news, issues, and events that impact virtual worlds. Nowhere else on the net will you see a more up to date look at the big legal questions this technology presents.

Where people go, laws and government aren’t far behind. Will a real-world lawsuit help clarify the status of digital property? Will criminal charges result from in-world activity? Will someone’s in-world private legal system become the de facto standard? Will attorneys practicing law in-world get in trouble with real-world ethics bodies? Will someone bring a civil suit for emotional distress inflicted by an avatar?

Virtually Blind editor Benjamin Duranske is a writer and an intellectual property attorney. He is the author of Virtual Law: Navigating the Legal Landscape of Virtual Worlds, and is currently working on a mainstream book on virtual worlds and a novel.

The Virtual Worlds BusinessCast is hands down the best podcast on business in virtual worlds. Past guests have included Erica Driver of Forrester, Jeff Barr of Amazon, and most recently Qwaq's CEO Greg Nuyens.

Voices in Business investigates the increasing business usage of virtual worlds such as SecondLife, Entropia and ActiveWorlds. By way of background, [...] virtual worlds are increasingly being used for a wide range of business purposes, by participants ranging from individual entrepreneurs to global Fortune 500 brands.

Throughout this series, we speak with participants right across that spectrum, hearing unique insight from a range of individuals who are successfully using virtual worlds in a business context.

The podcast is hosted by experienced host Mike O'Hara, owner of Voices In Business, which specialises in producing sponsored interviews with recognized "thought leaders" in various business niches, delivered via podcast/webradio format.

MixedRealities is a virtual worlds blog that gives one of the best ongoing overviews of what's happening in virtual world business communities.

MixedRealities covers the intersection of virtual environments, business and philosophy. MixedRealities believes that collaboration in virtual environments is one of the most important and most spectacular aspects of globalization.

Virtual collaboration seems to correspond to the aspirations of the new generation of people who want to combine work, meaning and fun. For that reason, MixedRealities also covers more philosophical and cultural aspects of virtual environments.

The author of the blog, Roland Legrand, is a Belgian journalist in charge of Internet and New Media at the business newspapers De Tijd and L’Echo.

If you're interested in becoming a media partner, contact us or visit the Press section of the vBusiness Expo website.