Next TechChat in Second Life

“Learn How to Keep Your Network SAFE”

This TechChat features Bill McGee, Manager, Security Solutions and Calvin Chai, Security Solutions Marketing Manager, both from Cisco. During this TechChat our speakers will discuss how a solutions-based approach to security, based on the SAFE architecture, provides more comprehensive security, better risk management, and tighter visibility and control of your network than traditional, siloed security products.
30 APRIL 2009 at 1200 PDT

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Back on April 19, Cheerie posted a couple of photos of work that had been completed in Second Life for Cisco Systems. Here are a couple more pictures from the rebuild of the Cisco Live area including the inside of the Photo Sphere and Video Center. The biggest change was a refresh of the “look” that matches the branding for this years Cisco Live! physical world event to be held in San Francisco.

On a personal note, I am happy with the evolution of this build. We took the comments we received last year and try to incorporate as many improvement for ease of access that we could, for example we removed the elevator that traveled up and down from the Sphere down to the Video Center and installed a simple teleport up into the sphere. While the elevator was real cool, it did not engage people enough to go up into the sphere. And it was slow. We also improved the entrance into the Video Center to make it more inviting and easier for a new Second Life user to get into the building. There were other tweaks here and there to numerous to mention. All of this is important in building a more effective engagement for Cisco and its community.

I would love to hear others opinion on this build.

All day events will be held here on June 30 and July 1.

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Banana posted a couple of pictures on his personal blog of two projects that were recently developed by Meta Magic Studio for Cisco Systems. The first was an updating of the successful Cisco Live build that we did last year and the second was a demonstration build of Cisco EnergyWise Office. Both projects were installed at Cisco Systems Virtual Campus on the Second Life grid this past week.

Banana also wrote that Dedric Mauriac did an outstanding software development job on the EnergyWise demo.  I know the 3D demo was easy to use and brought to life this very cool concept. Go Cisco!

Cisco Live 09 Update

Cisco EnergyWise Office

Tawni CiscoSystems  just dropped this info to Banana on their TechChat series.  Cisco does a great job with their TechChat series.  If you want to see it, please join them in Second Life.

Cisco EnergyWise - Improve Your Green Practices with Cisco EnergyWise
Date = April 14
Time = 8am SLT
Location = Bandwidth Stage, Cisco Systems Sim 4, Second Life

Meta Magic Studio will be there providing support.

Meta Magic Studio has two private sims in Second Life® versus having land on the Mainland. Los Arboles is what Linden Lab® calls a Full Region which means it is their highest performing sim offering.  We use this sim to demonstrate various builds concepts and some tongue in check salutes to the metaverse. Meta Magic Studio is defined as Openspace Region which in intended just to be a landscape sim with limited scripts and prims.

We have completely revamped Los Arboles for 2009, please stop by any time to visit.

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Today, Jan 27, 2009, Cisco® opened its Sustainability Center demonstrating its new EnergyWise Technology and their Networked Sustainability Network in Second Life®. This center is located at Cisco Systems Sim 2 and demonstrates Green technologies and products. The center was developed by Meta Magic Studio.

Virtually all large enterprises are conscious of the image they project, and corporate responsibility is an important part of that image. Green technologies represent an opportunity for corporations that extends beyond brand reputation and can affect overall profitability.

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On the 27th of January, Cisco will be opening its Sustainability Center in Second Life.

We have exciting news to share with you about how you can reduce energy costs and Greenhouse Gas (GhG) emissions using your network as a platform for change. We can all reduce travel and daily commutes by collaborating in virtual environments, but there’s so much more we can do in this networked world.

Source: Cisco http://blogs.cisco.com/virtualworlds/comments/green_it_efforts/

Location: Visit the Sustainability Center in world via this SLurl.

In the next few days, we will post some comments on this very exciting development that we are working on for Cisco’s Virtual Campus.

The next Cisco Tech Chat will take place on February 3, 2009. If you want to see how to stage a Virtual World presentation, you need to check out one of Cisco’s Tech Chats in Second Life.  We at Meta Magic Studio provide support for these type of events.

Notes on the next event:

“Scalable, Secure, and Cost-Effective WAN Services with Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers”

This TechChat features Michael Weir, Manager, Enterprise Technical Marketing in Cisco’s Edge Routing Business Unit (ERBU), and Matthew Eubanks, Product Manager for Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers in the Edge Routing Business Unit. During this TechChat, Weir and Eubanks will discuss new innovations and solutions on the Cisco ASR 1000 Series routers, designed to address existing and future networking requirements.
3 FEBRUARY 2009 at 1200 PST

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Zee Linden has posted a blog today on Second Life useage over 2007 entitled Second Life Residents logged nearly 400 million hours in 2008, growing 61% over 2007.  It is showing continued growth both in hours of usage and peak-concurrency despite many so-called industry experts who have predicted its death.

Key results are:

• User hours increased by 61% over 2007, highlighting the tremendous growth rate in user engagement that Second Life maintained throughout 2008.
• User hours increased steadily each quarter, culminating in a record-setting 112 million user hours in Q4.
• Peak concurrent users were up 31% over 2007
• Land owned by Residents increased 82% over 2007
• Exchange Volume increased 33% over 2007
• User-to-user transactions in Q4 increased 54% over Q4 of 2007

Hi all

Banana asked that I drop a quick blog entry on one of the ways that I have been using Second Life for our clients that makes beach clothing. They are getting ready for the 2009 product line photo shoot and wanted to be very precise in the types of photos they need.

Beach Concept - Meta Magic Studio

So when I saw the “Tahiti” concept build done, I took a few hundred photos (yes that many!) of the type of pictures and feelings that the client could choose from.

I asked Banana for some waves and long beaches and he was able to give it to me in less than one hour. Then using windlight and working with draw distance and environmental settings, I was able to do sunset and sunrise pictures very quickly.

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