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Wagner James Au
in San Francisco
Expertise: Virtual worlds (especially Second Life), online games, web/PC-based games, videogame consoles, machinima and the film industry
About Wagner:
Au is a contributing editor for GigaOM.com, primarily covering online worlds and games, and also writes about those subjects for GigaOM sites NewTeeVee, Earth2Tech, and the Apple Blog. He also writes about Second Life and “other metaverse” virtual worlds on his own blog New World Notes. He’s the author of *The Making of Second Life* from HarperCollins, based on his experiences as Linden Lab’s former “virtually embedded journalist” from 2003-2005. He’s also written on these subjects for Wired Magazine, Salon.com, the Los Angeles Times, and Harpers, and has frequently appeared on NPR, the BBC, the New York Times, the Discovery Channel’s “History of the Videogame” and other media outlets, and spoken on them at SXSW, O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 and ETech, the Virtual Worlds Conference, and elsewhere.
As a developer and consultant, he’s worked on virtual world/game projects for Electronic Arts, the Naval Postgraduate School’s MOVES Institute, Wieden+Kennedy, and other organizations.
