Life at the Feeding Edge » sport http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog Taking a bite on new technology so you don't have to Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:01:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Sports communities in Second Life – A new satellite dish? http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2010/01/29/sports-communities-in-second-life-a-new-satellite-dish/ http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2010/01/29/sports-communities-in-second-life-a-new-satellite-dish/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:19:09 +0000 epredator http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/?p=504 With all my comments on needing to engage with virtual worlds and the olympics and the work I have done up to now with online sports representations is it really great to find an exemplar of a community driven collect of sports enthusiasts. One great example is the Global Online Hockey Association In particular it is worth taking [...]]]> With all my comments on needing to engage with virtual worlds and the olympics and the work I have done up to now with online sports representations is it really great to find an exemplar of a community driven collect of sports enthusiasts.
One great example is the Global Online Hockey Association
Hockey SL Style
In particular it is worth taking a look a Treet.Tv coverage of a live event held there on Jan 10th
Now there is a lot of passion and effort, plus community participation that goes into this, but when you think of the global budgets of the advertiser and sponsors of world sporting events this really is not very expensive! The same applied to Wimbledon in SL, which in reality I paid for the land and a few of us volunteered our time to build.
It is the fact that people with an interest and a passion can get an awful lot done themselves. However think about how all this could be made even better with just a little attention from an interested party.
For sports social media and virtual worlds need to enagage, for virtual worlds what could be more mainstream an example than sports? Much of the take up of Satellite TV in the UK was driven by people wanting to watch soccer.
Can virtual worlds and online interaction be the new Satellite dish?

]]> http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2010/01/29/sports-communities-in-second-life-a-new-satellite-dish/feed/ 0 Dear London 2012 Olympic people – Wakeup to Virtual! http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2009/04/28/dear-london-2012-olympic-people-wakeup-to-virtual/ http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2009/04/28/dear-london-2012-olympic-people-wakeup-to-virtual/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:26:43 +0000 epredator http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/?p=102 For a while a few of us have been pushing the odd button, making suggestions and plays to various people that London 2012 really should have a rich and ground breaking virtual component. It could, after all, be the cheapest, yet most far reaching impact on the games and the future of sport. 

Sport works in 3d, [...]]]> For a while a few of us have been pushing the odd button, making suggestions and plays to various people that London 2012 really should have a rich and ground breaking virtual component. It could, after all, be the cheapest, yet most far reaching impact on the games and the future of sport. 

Sport works in 3d, is rich in statistics, has global interest. Virtual worlds and social media fit very nicely into that space. What do we have for 2012 as a strategy? No idea, cant find one. 

Still at least 2012 can be shown the way by what the Singapore 2010 youth games are going to do. This article on Virtual Worlds News shows the bids and sums involved (including my old firm, who’d of think it :) ) You can build a lot of virtual world experience using the available tools and $10 million. Look what we did with no funding and crowd sourcing for Wimbledon in Second Life ! 

My door/email/twitter/avatars are open to be approached, we are all happy to help. The country has the skills, in fact some people are world leaders in the field, we also have a thriving games industry.

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