http://nimbology.com Official Blog Of Nimbus World Group Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:42:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Typically, I am hard to impress. As a creative director, I always strive to make sure my client's marketing image is top notch and that takes time and multiple revisions. It is the same situation with ad delivery platforms. Just how many flash embedded ad networks does it take before ... http://nimbology.com/2008/08/19/social-media-rich-ads-by-spongecell/ Wherever people gather there is the chance for humanity to impart itself upon those gathered. We should expect no less from Second Life. In a garden pavilion on an island, I sat with an assortment of human beings - one clad as a teddy bear wearing a Santa hat, another as a ... http://nimbology.com/2008/07/15/group-therapy-in-second-life/ Google today announced its new avatar 3D chat world called Lively. It could be interesting and fun but not a substitute for the more powerful Second Life. Lively and similar products from other companies have the potential to change the way people interact over the Web. Online chat rooms are two-dimensional ... http://nimbology.com/2008/07/09/google-introduces-livelycom/ Edd Hifeng barely merits a second glance in "Second Life.'' A steel-gray robot with lanky limbs and linebacker shoulders, he looks like a typical avatar in the popular virtual world. But Edd is different. His actions are animated not by a person at a keyboard but by a computer. Edd is a ... http://nimbology.com/2008/05/19/second-life-is-frontier-for-ai-research/ Cary, NC company BlogAds has long been the favorite ad network with progressive blogs such as Daily Kos and their Advertise Liberally niche network. BlogAds has grown with other niches like music and celebrity gossip blog networks. Of late, many blogs on the Advertise Liberally niche have been unhappy ... http://nimbology.com/2008/03/23/blogads-meet-clicktoblue/ Nimbus CEO, Storm Williams, appeared in Second Life last week for a taping of The Late Show with Angelico Babii. Williams' avatar name is StormBear Hitchcock and he was the last guest of the night. He discussed the the creation of Books For Soldiers and the technology used to bring ... http://nimbology.com/2008/03/04/books-for-soldiers-featured-on-metaverse-tv/ CNBC ran a story on Second Life and how SL is creating a new economy much in the way eBay has. One woman profiled is on track to make over $80,000 in US dollars this year from the sales of her clothing line in Second Life. Her initial investment was ... http://nimbology.com/2007/12/05/cnbc-profiles-second-life/ Second Life, Open Sim, and now there are sniffs of Google in the metaverse wind. Massively thinks so. major media outlets speculated that Google would use its then-newly-acquired SketchUp asset to turn Google Earth into some sort of Second Life-type experience. Then The Wall Street Journal reported that Google was to ... http://nimbology.com/2007/11/09/the-expanding-googleverse/ Yelp is a site where anyone can write a review on a local business. Nimbus founder Storm Williams is quite the Yelper! The biggest subject that is Yelped about is restaurants and some restaurateurs in the know fear Yelpers. But in an unexpected turn, one restaurant has banned yelpers. An owner of ... http://nimbology.com/2007/08/16/yelp-is-good-for-pr-unless-the-business-owner-thinks-otherwise/ Me and a friend of mine was standing in front of her store and while we were shooting the breeze a Google Street View car drove by - just like the one shown below. What is a Street View car? Google is taking 3D images of all the streets in cities ... http://nimbology.com/2007/08/11/google-street-view-invades-north-carolina/