Links for Wednesday, May 28, 2008

• Tom Raftery: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint Using Virtual worlds – “In a pilot program rolled out for a small part of the group, Crédit Agricole expect to save between €200,000 and €300,000 this year on travel expenses alone by holding training sessions in-world. If this is rolled out to the group, annual savings would be in the order of €5-€6m. I’m not sure what that is in terms of reduced CO2 emissions but you can take it that it is a pretty big number!“
• Darth Vader Soundboard – “This is a great sound board of the Darth Vader with many of his famous dialogues.“