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A year ago on The Metaverse Journal

We toured Toxic Garden and discussed the potential of Metaplace.

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A year ago on The Metaverse Journal

A year ago we covered the AIIA inworld-forum titled “Are Virtual Worlds relevant to my Marketing Effort?”

The same week, ABC Island ran a CSIRO forum on human life extension.

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A year ago on The Metaverse Journal

August 2007 saw some new Australian areas in Second Life:

1. We profiled the Great Barrier Reef and Whitsundays in Second Life.

2. We also had a look at Lake View Waters Fishing World.

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A year ago on The Metaverse Journal

We highlighted some poor mainstream reporting on Second Life and covered a successful event on ABC Island.

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A year ago on The Metaverse Journal

We were gobsmacked by the Greenies build in Second Life.

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A year ago on The Metaverse Journal

We were touched by The Garden for the Missing and the ABC’s 75th anniversary was celebrated in-world.

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Raph Koster: MMOs versus MUDs

Metaplace’s Raph Koster has been around long enough to know most virtual world history. He’s raised some interesting points about MUDs and MMOs, stating that the latter have “removed more features from MUD gameplay than they have added”.

One of hundreds remaining: Project Carthage

One of the hundreds of MUDs still running: Project Carthage

What do you think? Is there truly anything new in multiplayer gaming or virtual worlds more broadly? What further evolution would truly impress you?

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