A short video about patent enforcement from one of General Patent’s successful clients: Thom Kidrin of our very own worlds.com.
http://www.generalpatent.com/videos/gp-testimonal-01.swf
The theme for this competition is
“All Creatures Great and Small“.
RULES
•The theme for this competition is “All Creatures Great and Small”.
•A maximum of three entries will be accepted per person.
•Each entry should be submitted as an attachment to a separate e-mail to ukbigfootuk@yahoo.co.uk
•All photos must be in .jpg format. Pictures should no smaller than 900 x 900 pixels and no bigger than 3MB (i.e. no bigger than 2048×1536 pixels).
•Once a photograph has been submitted and accepted for the competition it can not be withdrawn by the member.
•The competition is open to all Worlds.com members
•All entrants must provide the organisers with their world’s name and email details if they wish to enter this competition. Worlds will only ever use submitted personal details for the purposes of administering this competition, and will not publish them or provide them to anyone without prior permission.
•Each entry submitted must have a title and location, and may include an optional description up to a maximum of 15 words.
•All entries into the competition must be suitable for publication on a website and appropriate for a general audience. Worlds.com reserves the right to reject any photograph on the grounds of Illegality, infringement of any third party rights, the subject matter being offensive or contrary to standards of taste and decency, or on any other ground that it may from time to time consider inappropriate. The decision of worlds.com to reject an entry is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
•Deadline for receiving entries is Sunday 14th February 2010
•Results will be posted In the Worlds.com online gallery created for the competition by Sunday 21st February 2010
•Prize(s) are to be: 1st Prize 3 months VIP, 2nd Prize 2months VIP, 3rd Prize 1 Months VIP. All winning entries will be awarded with appropriate Rosettes placed on the Photographs in the gallery.
•The Judging Panel for this competition will be chaired by Kelley. Other judges’ names will be announced later. The Judges decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
•All entrants must supply full details as required above, and comply with all rules to be eligible for the prizes
•No responsibility is accepted for ineligible entries or entries made fraudulently.
•By submitting your photographs to this competition you agree to grant worlds.com, free of charge, the right to publish your entries in the Worlds.com Gallery created for the competition.
•Your entry must be entirely your own original work, not defame anybody nor breach any copyright.
•If your photograph features any recognisable person or people, written permission should be obtained for the image to be entered in the competition and to be published online. Written permission from each recognisable person (or their parents/guardians if under 16) should be submitted for each entry.
• Judging Panel but judges may submit 3 photographs for display in the Competition Gallery but these photographs will not be eligible for any prizes.
•Worlds.com reserves the right to cancel this competition at any stage.
•If a winning entrant is unable to be contacted after reasonable attempts have been made to do so, Worlds.com reserves the right to either offer the prize to the next best entry.
•Worlds.com reserves the right to disqualify any entry which breaches any of these rules.
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The theme for photographs will be “The World We Live In”
and each worlds person can send in 3 pics to enter.
Once a photograph has been submitted and accepted for the competition it can not be withdrawn by the member, and will be displayed in the Competition Gallery for the duration of the competition
Prize(s) are to be: 1st Prize 3 months VIP, 2nd Prize 2months VIP, 3rd Prize 1 Months VIP. All winning entries will be awarded with appropriate Rosettes placed on the Photographs in the gallery .
Deadline for receiving entries is Sunday 13th December 2009.
Each entry should be submitted as an attachment to a separate e-mail to ukbigfootuk@yahoo.co.uk
Worlds.com, Pioneer of 3D Virtual Worlds, Announces Agreement With Pearson
Worlds.com has announced that it has signed an agreement with Pearson, the international education and information company, to develop a series of 3D virtual worlds that may be utilized for implementation within existing Pearson educational and digital programs. Terms of the agreement were not released.
“With this agreement Worlds.com begins to broaden our licensing, platform utilization and deployment with the largest educational publisher in the world. Pearson has a number of projects that virtual worlds can add value to. We are excited about this application for a broad range of their properties,” stated Thom Kidrin, CEO of Worlds.com.
Pearson has stated that it is committed to investments that complement the goals of its programs, particularly to enhance student achievement. With Worlds.com’s virtual world capability and 15 years of experience, Pearson will explore opportunities to enhance student learning and engagement.
World’s users create avatars that navigate through virtual worlds as well as build their own worlds on a P2P network. The company is building on existing formats to improve web capabilities in the 3D online environment.
Thom Kidrin said that his company is working with a broad range of divisions within Pearson, demoing the platform and its capabilities. Current efforts range from proof of concept to prototypying with existing groups that have never developed content in the virtual worlds space to beginning the process of implementation.
“A number of groups have content that’s courseware and are looking to see how it could be used in the 3D world,” said Kidrin. “Let’s say trainers or teachers or tutors could be anywhere in the world and use that software to train the students or customers of Pearson
The education company has already partnered generally with Engineering & Computer Simulations to create education solutions for government, academic, and commercial clients. Specifically, the two are working on The Coaches Centre. Funbrain, a part of Pearson’s Family Education Network, also operates the 13-million-strong Poptropica world for kids.
Kidrin says he doesn’t view Worlds as competing with the other efforts, but offering different capabilities in the ecosystem. Regardless, education is a newer direction for Worlds.com, which has previously been more active in the social and entertainment space.
“Obviously we’re always looking at applications and how we can diversify our platform diversification with strategic partners that already speak to large user bases,” said Kidrin. “Our approach has never been to go out and build our own systems and market them.”
A successful partnership with Pearson could expose Worlds to a large new audience of users and developers. Pearson services both organizational needs and traditional K-12 educators. Kidrin says Worlds is working with Pearson to look at a number of different properties in different silos.
There’s no firm time line on when some of these efforts might make it in to final production, but Kidrin says that may come in late summer or the fall.
Don’t expect a Pearson education world to funnel in to Worlds’ more entertainment-focused properties. Even though the viewer can be used to access multiple worlds, and a user of DMC’s recently launched world may be funneled to other musicians’, he or she is unlikely to connect with a K-12 program, at least at first.
“We discuss with all partners about accessibility and permissions that could be granted or declined from other world’s user bases,” said Kidrin. “There isn’t a natural extrapolation from DMC to a Pearson world. But at some point, DMC has a lot of foundation work he does. A lot of it has to do with working with inner-city kids and education, so there may be a natural confluence of users.”
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Worlds.com is hosting an Easter Avatar Contest, many prizes, click the Events page to the right of screen for details.
Worlds.com on a mobile? Chat from in world to your friends on mobile device?
Hopefully this is all coming soon, I have heard that A MAC version is expected in about six months.
Worlds members should also be able to upload and download content soon.
Additional features that are in the works include a port to mobile platform, .
and much more audio orientated content
Keep an eye out for much more.
Khz / Tony
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Womens – 1st Erika Rose 2nd bubbs 3rd Solitaire73
Mens – 1st Bamagirl 2nd Didodiggler 3rd TweedleMac
Couples – 1st Rainbow and Moors Knight 2nd Goldensunlight and
Silvermoonlight 3rd Babe20000 and Solitaire73
Other Category – 1st ScottyMSensai 2nd Bamagirl 3rd Babe20000
Over all Fan Favorite voted on by the participants and spectators was
Rainbow
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Could virtual worlds become a new platform of choice for musicians? IfDarryl McDaniels (DMC) is successful, it will be. Later this month, he will be launching DMC World, a virtual world running on the Worlds.com platform. He was at Engage! Expo along with Thom Kidrin, President and CEO of Worlds.com, to talk about what their new world might be like. One person who viewed it summarized it saying, “This is Club Penguin for Hip Hop”. That’s a cute summary, but I suspect it could be much more than that if they do it right.
The Worlds.com platform is highly scalable and one goal is to be able to have concerts in DMC world. Fortunate musicians might also get the opportunity to jam with him online. Yet what is perhaps more interesting is that DMC hopes to sell not only his own music there, but the music of emerging artists that catch his interest as well.
There are already good venues for buying music online, from iTunes to Snocap. You can find new artists on sites like MySpace. DMC World could take this to a new level.
Will DMC World have what it takes to succeed? There are various issues that need to be addressed. The client is a relatively small download, compared to the size of other virtual world downloads. Yet it is still a download and not yet browser based. On top of that, currently, it only runs on Windows. A MAC version is expected in about six months. It should have many of the other features that Second Life users have come to expect such as the ability to build, as well potentially the ability to upload and download content. Worlds.com is also part of the virtual worlds interoperability committee, so progress on that front will hopefully make its way into DMC world as well.
Additional features that are in the works include a port to mobile platforms and the ability to chat from DMC world to phones. All of this presents a further challenge to the existing models of music distribution. In essence, each artist has the opportunity to become their own technologically savvy micro-label.
Click Link for sneek Video
Fly through starts in the main concert floor with a final destination of the outside courtyard.
originally uploaded by Aldon Hynes.
Happy st patrick’s day
dont forget the contest, details click the Events Page to the right of the main screen.
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An updated and fresh looking home page for Worlds.com.
Shows new avatars and system as well as all the old usefull info we were used too.
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