Second Life

How The Economy Back During The Depression of 2009 Changed The World Part 8: Marketing

Posted on December 15, 2008. Filed under: Apple, Mashable, RSS feed, Science Fiction, Second Life, Social Network, advertising, consumer marketing, tv ad | Tags: , , , , , , , |

In my continuing series on the Depression of ‘09, or Bush’s Collapse, as historians have come to call it, I will focus on how marketing and advertising was effected. In 2038 it’s hard to believe that only 30 years ago quotes such as “no one every got fired for doing television” and ideas like Mass [...]

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Corporations Leave Second Life. We never knew you were there!

Posted on July 25, 2007. Filed under: American Apparel, Bank America, Burger King, Consumer Generated Content, H&R Block, Lost, NBA, Sears, Second Life, Social Network, User Generated Content, Warcraft, Web 2.0, Web3.d, Wired Magazine, advertising, consumer marketing, viral marketing |

I got a good laugh out of the recent Wired article stating that Second Life was officially over.
Many companies who tried to market themselves in Second Life failed and are now leaving. Coke, American Apparel, NBA, Sears, H&R Block, etc. (edit: Some of these companies aren’t leaving, just complaining that their real world strategies failed).
The [...]

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Michael Durwin in a Google

Posted on March 22, 2007. Filed under: Boston, Eternal Gaze//Scope, Google, Matt Hanson, Michael Durwin, RSS feed, Second Life, Warcraft, XPLSV.tv, blog |

I’ve been a bit self-obsessed I do admit. Over the last year or two I’ve been searching for my name, Michael Durwin, on Google. I’ve spoken to several companies who have Googled me prior to business meetings. It’s been very interesting to note what they have found, online community comments, Amazon book reviews, old portoflios, [...]

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should have stayed in texas

Posted on March 20, 2007. Filed under: Austin, Boston, Global Warming, Michael Durwin, Microsoft, Obama, SXSW, Second Life, Starbucks, User Generated Content, Web3.d, Wi-Fi, texas, vlog |

What a welcome back Boston had for me. Not 3 days back from SXSW in Austin, TX and we get spanked with 4 inches of snow. Granted it’s not much as far as New England standards go but between the change in weather patterns from global warming and sweating for 4 days in Austin, it [...]

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no movement in newark

Posted on March 14, 2007. Filed under: Google, Linden Labs, Newark Airport, SXSW, Second Life |

Stuck in newark, nj. I’ve been thinking of nothing else but virtual words, video blogging, personalization… I met alot of great people with alot of great ideas. Not too many seemed to talk among themselves though. Noone at Linden Labs or Google have talked apparently. I told them both that Google needs to prepare to [...]

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