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more on IBM to give birth to 'Second Life' business group
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 07:01:39 +0900
( I read it djf) Begin forwarded message: From: Dennis Crowley <dens () dodgeball com> Date: December 16, 2006 6:54:10 AM JST To: dave () farber netSubject: Re: [IP] more on IBM to give birth to 'Second Life' business group
It seems to be that all these hight-tech companies that make a run into theSecond-Life MP game are burning marketing budget for just a few users.
hi dave -for anyone interested in this Second Life thread, Clay Shirky recently had a great post dissecting the hype around SL and the numbers driving a lot of the media / advertiser interest...
A story too good to checkhttp://www.valleywag.com/tech/second-life/a-story-too-good-to- check-221252.php
____________ dennis crowley founder, dodgeball.com + dens () dodgeball com + 917-301-2028 ____________ On Dec 15, 2006, at 4:32 PM, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Leon Kuunders <leon () kuunders info> Date: December 15, 2006 8:04:00 PM JST To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] IBM to give birth to 'Second Life' business group Reply-To: leon () kuunders info Hi David,It seems to be that all these hight-tech companies that make a run into theSecond-Life MP game are burning marketing budget for just a few users.Although the amount of users that have ever registered at SL is around 2 million, the number of active users seems to be quite small. During 'businesshours' around 20000 concurrend user connections are active.I wonder how much is invested into the game and how that relates to income ofthe avatars. Cheers, --Leon. David Farber wrote:Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Date: December 13, 2006 9:01:27 AM JST To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>Subject: [Dewayne-Net] IBM to give birth to 'Second Life' business groupReply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com IBM to give birth to 'Second Life' business group By Stephen Shankland<http://news.com.com/IBM+to+give+birth+to+Second+Life+business +group/2100-1014_3-6143175.html>Story last modified Tue Dec 12 15:39:57 PST 2006 IBM will launch an official group in January to deal with Second Life and other virtual realms from which the company hopes to profit.Virtual reality and other visual interface work is the next project onIBM's plate, Irving Wladawsky-Berger said in an interview at CNET's Second Life offices. Wladawsky-Berger, vice president of technical strategy and innovation at IBM, led the company's response to earliertechnologies that rewrote the rules of the computing industry, such ase-commerce and Linux."I have been playing a strong role in helping us start our 3D Internetand virtual-world efforts. We are launching a new EBO in this area in January--that is, an emerging business opportunity--much like we did with Linux and the grid," Wladawsky-Berger said Tuesday. IBM believesthe virtual realm has potential for training, conferences and commerce,he said.Second Life, an online community run by a company called Linden Labs, isan electronic universe where people's virtual representations, calledavatars, can chat, fly, teleport, browse stores and purchase goods. IBM has one public island on Second Life, a site named after and mimicking its Almaden Research Center near San Jose, Calif., but the company plansto open up 12 more by Monday. Second Life, not unlike blogging, has become a new trend amongtechnology companies hoping to show they're hip to the latest trends andthat believe they might benefit from direct connections to potentialcustomers. In recent months, IBM rivals Dell and Sun Microsystems havelaunched Second Life offices and held activities. [snip] ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as leon () cvib nl To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/ interesting-people/------------------------------------- You are subscribed as dens () dodgeball com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- people/
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