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Big Chip Awards to be ‘Second Life’s first broadcast virtual awards

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Tuesday, 22 May 2007

The Big Chip Awards, the North West’s annual awards for digital excellence, will this Thursday become the first ever awards ceremony to be shown live in the online virtual world Second Life.

The occasion will also see the launch of Second Life Manchester – a virtual recreation of the city.

The awards ceremony will be streamed live from the evening’s proceedings at the New Century Hall in Manchester and will be available to Second Life’s estimated 6.5m users worldwide.

The compere of the awards, broadcaster Tony Wilson, will be digitally recreated as the host online.

Second Life Manchester has been created by the Urbis Centre and Clicks and Links, supported by the MDDA. Clicks and Links has produced the design for Second Life Manchester.

The 2007 Awards has attracted the highest number of entries since the Awards were launched in 1998. Over 100 companies have submitted over 200 entries.

Shaun Fensom, chair of Manchester Digital said: “As one of the first celebrations of new media and ICT talent in the UK, and by far the biggest outside London, the Big Chip Awards is all about showcasing high quality and pioneering work produced by the region’s digital industry. So it is fitting that the awards should kick off the cutting edge Second Life Manchester and be the very first awards shown live in the Second Life virtual world. As far as we know this is a world first.”

http://www.manchesterdigital.com
http://www.bigchipawards.com/

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Comments (4)

1 By BaliusCaleb Ashby, on 22-05-2007 15:08
Dear author, readers, and Shaun Fensom,

We read the How DO article "Big Chip Awards to be ‘Second Life’s first broadcast virtual awards " with great interest. Our interest had to do with the fact the Linden's poor architecture prevents more than forty or fifty people from being on a given server. In fact, then entire server crashes, booting all the participants off Second Life when the performance threshold is surpassed.

Shouldn't this mean that Second Life Manchester is "severely impacted" - and basically unusable since it will crash if it becomes (too) popular?

We are greatly interested in your response. For grins listen to our daily podcast/radio show about SL, performance and Virtual World Economies at http://ExeterEbay.com/TheBeeReport.mp3

See you soon - Contact me (BaliusCaleb Ashby) anytime & we will mention whatever stories you wish (or do free ads for you...) We are in Washington DC in real life if you ever visit.

See you soon!

B

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2 By Simon Wharton , on 24-05-2007 16:07
We know people who will be watching. It's an interesting experiment. As we will be there en masse and in person, we will be using various tools to report back from the event in real time. We have integrated Twitter and Flickr into our blog and all our staff have access to indiscriminately publish comments and pictures throughout the show.

It's perhaps a dangerous thing as the ale starts flowing but worthwhile I think

http://blog.pushon.co.uk

is where the mayhem will ensue

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3 By Galaxy Giha, on 25-05-2007 09:25
I was there... it was a total disaster as you predicted Balius, too many people and the video and sound broke down completely within seconds!

Shame - don't think the event organisers had done enough homework :-(

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4 By tojo, on 25-05-2007 10:04
Good to see Wilson in fine form and Dave Carter deserves a knighthood

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