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24 June 2009

 

Sametime_3d by IBM

"Instead of exotic islands and futuristic nightclubs, IBM’s digital universe features conference tables, a gigantic appointment calendar, and a flip chart. At least one of the avatars, the computer-created characters that stand in for real people using the service, is wearing a tie.

This unlikely business product is one of three new projects from the Boston-area IBM Lotus team, all designed to offer the appeal of the latest personal software ideas in office applications. Besides the virtual world, the group’s products include Twitter-like “micro-blogging’’ as part of a Facebook-style social networking application, and a service that enables “cloud computing’’ - using remote computers connected by the Internet to do work that has traditionally been performed on a local machine."


Not that I care much about business, but IBM has put together a suite of tools for business people to use, that includes chat, microblogging, and 3D virtuality. From IBM's video: "Technologies Used: Lotus Notes/Sametime, Lotus 3D Platform, Open Sim server."

I suppose this competes with LL's own business tools, although since everything is interwoven who can tell. One good thing - the idea of the usefulness of 3D is given a boost simply by the IBM name. Currently there's not much cred, and Yo says no business people within her sphere have even heard of it and when told about SL consider it peculiar and unhealthy. I know when friends ask me what I am doing, their words "Second Life" are held firmly in a pair of tongs, so it's not being clasped to many bosoms as yet.

This makes me think of a time many years ago when I was on a plane from somewhere, next to a man who said he specialised in training people to use computerised data, and I said something like, "Ooh, you could render data as a landscape then fly over it in a plane," and he went all funny looking like that was not just far outside of what he had meant ("bar chart," "graph") but just... too far out. In fifteen or twenty years we've progressed to the point where the graph and the bar chart are INSIDE 3D. Heh.

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I mention SL And Twitter more now than I've ever done, but I'm still viewed as a geek and chronic masturbator by most who see anything online as whorsiping Star Trek, chesting on your spouse or grooming kids.

I keep plugging away though and I have had some successes with 4 RL work mates coming in. Only 2 are still in and they are very new, but it's a start. One of those 2 is big into social media-stuff and is trying to the get the place I work for to adopt some level of web 2, but it's like spitting into a fire.
 
When I mention to people that I'm in SL I usually bring up the show and the fact I'm part gazelle. This might put some people off but fuck 'em - I'm bloody proud of my creations in there and VERY proud to be part of TSMGO so why shouldn't I boast? Exactly!
 
I love TSMGO! and am so very glad we have you. It's interesting that the 2007 video on YouTube has been noticed and approved of by a few real life performers.

On another note: I'm always amazed when I see a screenshot (like the one above) with those great ugly boxes around the names and chat. Why in the world would anyone want that blight on their screen?
 
Oh I always have names and chat bubbles on the screen for general use - I seem to see past or through them. I only takem them all off for the show :)
 

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