<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Scobleizer]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://scobleizer.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Robert Scoble]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://scobleizer.blog/author/scobleizer/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Eric Rice starts new &#8220;virtual world/gaming&#8221; show for&nbsp;PodTech]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>The good news for <a href="http://www.podtech.net/home/">PodTech</a> keeps rolling along. For those of you who don&#8217;t know Eric Rice, he&#8217;s the one who got me into Second Life (haven&#8217;t been back since my son got kicked out, though) but his skillz are extreme (he has built entire islands of cool stuff including a conference center, a city that included my &#8220;very large and evil&#8221; software company, and islands for corporate clients.</p>
<p>Today <a href="http://www.ericrice.com/blog/?p=350">he announced that he&#8217;s doing a video show</a>, named &#8220;Rezzing,&#8221; for PodTech. Virtual Worlds and Gaming won&#8217;t be the same.</p>
<p>Oh, and someone asked what the business model of PodTech is. I&#8217;ll work on a more complete and in-depth post on that with my management, but really it&#8217;s the same business model that content businesses around the world have. Build audiences and introduce those audiences to corporate clients. You can call it advertising. A Second Life interactive world. Or sponsorship. Or BlogHausing. Corporate blogging. ScobleShow. Or a number of other things.</p>
<p>Basically we&#8217;re just copying everything that <a href="http://www.calacanis.com/">Jason Calacanis</a> does (he proved that networks of social media sites, er blogs, podcasts, etc, have value when he sold <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/">Weblogsinc</a> to AOL). Oh, wait, <a href="http://www.calacanis.com/category/podcast/">he does a podcast for PodTech</a> too.</p>
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