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Concept Plan for eLab City (November 5, 2007)

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Where you live:: Riverside, California, USA

Where you work:: University of California, Riverside

About Me:: Tom Novak is Albert O. Steffey Professor of Marketing, Cooperating Faculty in Psychology, and Co-Director of the Sloan Center for Internet Retailing at the University of California, Riverside, where he joined the faculty in July 2006. Novak’s research since 1993 has focused exclusively on Internet and Web based commerce. His current research areas include virtual worlds, measuring the online consumer experience, online advertising, Web advertising metrics and modeling online advertising exposure, Internet marketing strategy, and electronic commerce policy.

Favorite Places in Second LIfe:: Well, focusing on research in Second Life, I like Mario Menti's survey bots and the new Cube Surveys system. For fun places, you will have to ask my avatar.

Website:: http://sloan.ucr.edu

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Soft Launch - eLab City is open to the Second LIfe public

eLab City is now open. During Summer 2008, we will be in a soft launch period. As we still have work to do, the sim may be temporarily closed to the public from time to time, but we expect it will be open nearly all of the time. So - we wanted to invite you to stop by and visit! All the major structures are in place, and our first exhibition is ready for viewing at the Design center. This… Continue

Posted on June 24th, 2008 at 6:30pm — No Comments (Add)

Coming Spring 2008: Virtual Virtual

Virtual Virtual
an exhibition of new work by Peter Stanick

coming to eLab City in Spring 2008

Posted on December 6th, 2007 at 6:38pm — 1 Comment (Add)

eLab City Development has begun!

The Sloan Center for Internet Retailing is very pleased to announce the selection of eLab City's development team:

Cezary Ostrowski, aHead
http://www.tutaj.com.pl/ahead/

Nadia Hennrich
http://nadiahennrich.com

Visual artist and compos…

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Posted on December 6th, 2007 at 6:01pm — No Comments (Add)

Islands have been ordered!

As of yesterday, two islands - eLab City West and eLab City East - have been ordered. Estimated delivery time is 10-14 days according to Linden, but maybe a bit longer since this is an educational purchase.

Posted on October 23rd, 2007 at 8:36pm — No Comments (Add)

What the eLab City Web site is all about...

About eLab City. This web site is for everyone interested in the eLab City project. This includes academic researchers who have an interest in virtual consumption and consumer behavior in Second Life, as well as Second Life residents who may want to take a role in creating an active user community in eLab City. eLab City will be devolped over the months ahead. It is intended to be a platform for creative approaches to consumer research in virtual worlds. Our philosophy is tha…

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Posted on October 21st, 2007 at 11:24am — No Comments (Add)