For those of you attending Supernova 2005 next week, be sure to stop by the “Virtual Worlds, Real Money” workshop which will be moderated by yours truly. Cory’s participating as a speaker, along with Ian Bogost and Bill Barhydt from Sennari.
The Supernova conference is organized by Dan’s Wharton colleague Kevin Werbach whose stated goal is to “bring together business, government, and technology thought leaders to understand how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world.” It won’t be nearly as much fun without Dan (dude, easy on that Percoset!) but I’m really looking forward to the workshop, as it’s a great opportunity to take discussions about business opportunities in online games into a non-gaming, non-academic context and engage in an exchange of ideas with some stellar industry leaders.
Ahh, I wanted to go to this, but honestly, there is no way I can justify the rather hefty admission prices. ($2500 for all three days). Only thing I don't like about running an indie developer is being unable to mooch off the massive, milk-laden corporate teat.
--matt
Posted by: Matt Mihaly | Jun 15, 2005 at 01:30
I'll be there as well, on a panel with JC Herz, Philip Rosedale of Linden, and Dennis "Thresh" Fong, about (what else) the future of online games, the current state of 'em, and so on.
Posted by: Raph | Jun 15, 2005 at 02:17
Any chance this will be recorded and stuck on itconversations.com? That's how many of us peons get to (virtualy) hear the gospel..
Posted by: Yak | Jun 15, 2005 at 10:53
Any chance this will be recorded and stuck on itconversations.com? That's how many of us peons get to (virtualy) hear the gospel..
I do know there will be a SLcast of the conference. There was already a big contract on the forums from LL for making avatars of the speakers.
Posted by: Young Freud | Jun 15, 2005 at 14:10
Young Freud > "I do know there will be a SLcast of the conference. There was already a big contract on the forums from LL for making avatars of the speakers."
You need a Second Life account/password to view it, but here's the forum announcement. That's gonna be great :-) Can you get admission to hear the Supernova conference stream in Second Life?
Hamlet Linden also has a recent post about Cory Doctorow getting similarly avatarized.
Yak > "Any chance this will be recorded and stuck on itconversations.com?"
Supernova 2004 is up at IT Conversations here, so that bodes well.
Posted by: Jerry P | Jun 15, 2005 at 17:28