Since I left IBM, early this year, I haven't been quite as active in Virtual Worlds – my work at Monster Worldwide does not involve Second Life or any other Virtual World at this time.

But I still keep my hand in that community and attend some of their meetings locally, which is the case for a Metaverse Meetup that happened last Wednesday, 7/23/08 here in Manhattan – and this is a video of the entire Meetup (it was about the Open Grid).

Metaverse Meetup: OpenSim & Virtual Worlds Interoperability 7.23.08 from Metaverse Meetup on Vimeo.

Here's some more information:

"…The topic for this Metaverse Meetup was OpenSim and virtual worlds interoperability and we were very fortunate to be featuring leading pioneers of OpenSim as presenters: David Levine of IBM Research (Zha Ewry in SL) and Adam Frisby of DeepThink Labs (Adam Zaius in SL). Tish Shute (Tara5 Oh in SL), who writes about OpenSim on her blog Ugotrade, was guest moderator and Global Kids generously hosted us in their space."

I wrote three good posts today but haven't had a chance to write anything here – so I'll talk about the Analytics Guru posts.  In

Microsoft BrowseRank favors Social Networks

I keyed into Aaron Wall today – and noticed he had a writeup on BrowseRank that tests it and finds it's better for Social Networks, and probably not that good for Google, which favors links over search behavior.

Then I read another post about

The Bloggers guide to SEO looks pretty good

..from SEObook, and decided to write about that … with the goal of not overusing these strategies – because, let's face it, if you do it too much – you'll bring down a penalty from the big G.

And then

house content is favored by the Google algorithm – further proof that Google stacks the cards in their own favor

….  talks about Google Knol and how it's ranked over duplicate content that was created somewhere else (off of Google).  I think this post is quite revealing.

It's Google, and there's trouble again, this time with "virtual tresspassing" – take a look