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04-03-2008, 10:51 PM
|  | Too Loud! Too Bright! | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: a place of settlement, activity, or residence
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| | | Virtual Worlds Getting Friendlier For Businesses
Looks like business is going virtual! Virtual Worlds Getting Friendlier For Businesses -- Virtual Worlds -- InformationWeek  Quote:
Second Life developer Linden Lab is teaming up with IBM for a version of the service that companies can run behind their firewall. Meanwhile, a startup called Multiverse is building virtual worlds software that runs in either a standalone client or a Web browser.
One of the chief obstacles for using Second Life for business is that it's only available as a service. Second Life runs on server farms owned and operated by Linden Lab, and all text chats and VoIP calls in Second Life run through those servers. That makes security-conscious companies reluctant to use Second Life for proprietary conversations.
Using the service being tested by IBM, its users will be able to log in to the private server behind IBM's firewall, and move back and forth between that and the public Second Life grid, taking their avatars and possessions with them.
IBM will use the service for conferences, special events, and meetings.
"This is really about satisfying a market demand," said Ginsu Yoon, Linden Lab VP for business affairs. "There are enterprises that can be very comfortable with a hosted service, and there are customers who really want to have things inside their infrastructure." Linden Lab wants to be able to serve both groups.
| WoW, this will probably lead to a whole new meaning of "Work at/from home"
That would be really cool if instead of e-mailing the memo to your co-worker, you give it to them in Second Life and they get it that way.
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04-03-2008, 10:54 PM
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 : 78 th | | cool stuff.
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04-03-2008, 11:03 PM
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| | | 2nd life has been an abject failure for business so far. I have no great hopes for it.
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04-03-2008, 11:06 PM
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| | | thanks craig!
It looks like they are hoping for a comeback, the article says they enjoyed a boost when it became popular, but now is having problems.
I remember there was someone who became a millionaire playing this game. I think it's interesting however how they are trying to use the application. Who knows, it could lead to something (maybe not with second life) but how inner office stuff is run and done).
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04-03-2008, 11:10 PM
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| | | from everything I've read, the only business left on there is sex. All the auto company launches, Pepsi stuff, and other companies that dumped money into it have seen a zero ROI and won't be back.
I'm trying to envision what IBM is doing, but I don't see it succeeding. No 50 year old executive is going to get on Second Life for a conference with IBM.
//15/f/Seattle, you?
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04-03-2008, 11:18 PM
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| | | To be honest, Second Life is just a load of sad... I mean people actually play that game as if it were RL, theyre loserrs!!!
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04-03-2008, 11:20 PM
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| | | I don't really care if people waste their time in there, but with only half a million active users, it's not viable. And the application of it to business seems odd.
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04-04-2008, 12:20 AM
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: 78 th | | | they have a full congress now or something like that...like a real government. odd...very odd. |
04-04-2008, 12:21 AM
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| | | crap... IBM better not make me work on this project. I'd rather not have to explain to my co-workers why my avatar is a red dragon...
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04-04-2008, 01:06 AM
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| | | lol dnv
they should use CSS instead...
all arguments settled by a couple rounds of Office
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