http://blog.tretiakmedia.com Adventures in Second Life Tue, 08 May 2007 01:31:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am very proud to announce our latest project! Dalian and I have been working on the latest IBM Island here in Second Life called IBM Benelux, which will be a combination R&D Lab and communications center for IBM's BeNeLux division (that's Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxemberg). We tried to make ... http://blog.tretiakmedia.com/2007/05/07/ibms-next-big-thing-in-second-life/ _A good friend of mine, Bill Nissim, recently published his latest article on virtual worlds. You may have seen his previous article [here](http://www.brandchannel.com/papers_review.asp?sp_id=1292) and [here](http://www.marketingprofs.com/7/slquery-second-life-search-nissim.asp), which was about my very own [SLQuery.com](http://www.slquery.com) search platform. Bill has graciously allowed me to reprint his latest article in full, here on the Virtual ... http://blog.tretiakmedia.com/2007/03/31/virtual-world-transition-what-sl-business-model-works-best-by-bill-nissim/ I'll be attending the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference in New York next week. So, if you're there during that time, look me up. You can reach me via the contact form on our [Tretiak Media site](http://www.tretiakmedia.com). I'll be checking email periodically. http://blog.tretiakmedia.com/2007/03/24/virtual-worlds-2007/ Haven't blogged in, well...let's just say forever. So to start things off again, I offer this little nugget of wisdom. :-D A friend of mine in Second Life, Deeep Witte, recently sent me a hilarious, but true, analysis of buzzword phraseology. ## How to find a name for a subculture > Why Second ... http://blog.tretiakmedia.com/2007/03/22/how-to-find-a-name-for-a-subculture/ I've decided to change my blog address to blog.slquery.com for all future posts regarding the SLQuery project. This new address has the advantage of being better associated with the SLQ site itself. Most of what I’ll write about concerns slquery.com and what we’re doing to further information gathering and retrieval ... http://blog.tretiakmedia.com/2007/01/17/new-blog-address/ Over the weekend I updated the slquery.com site with some fantastic new graphics that Dalian Hansen put together for me. We tweaked the site to better express the services that we're providing as well as give it a stronger, more professional look. I believe we've succeeded! I'm quite pleased with ... http://blog.tretiakmedia.com/2007/01/17/new-look-for-slquerycom/ I'm very proud to announce the latest round of updates to the slquery.com product line. This is a big update and comes with some exciting new features on our previous products, plus the introduction of a new search billboard called the SLQ infoStation. [SLQuery.com](http://www.slquery.com) is continuing to expand and gain ... http://blog.tretiakmedia.com/2007/01/07/slquerycom-version-24-is-ready/ A few days ago, Dalian Hansen introduced our very own bear named QQ. In the same tradition as the various collectible Linden Bears, QQ is free to share and trade. And QQ has become quite popular! Within a few days of his release, QQ has been downloaded over 30 times. ... http://blog.tretiakmedia.com/2006/12/15/qq-the-slquery-bear/ I'm proud to announce that the [slquery.com](http://www.slquery.com) site has just reached past the 500 registered member mark. Many of these are from the [apez.biz](http://www.apez.biz) site run by Cenji Neutra. He has graciously provided a steady stream of new members and products from his site to both help the SLQ system ... http://blog.tretiakmedia.com/2006/12/13/500-members-and-growing/ I've updated the web tab profiles available through [slquery.com](http://www.slquery.com) so that they now include navigational buttons such as back, forward, home, and refresh. In addition, clicking on images for items now shows correctly sized within the web tab browser. And finally, clicking on an item's more information link also shows ... http://blog.tretiakmedia.com/2006/12/11/update-to-slq-web-tab-profiles/