ComputerWorld Article on Second Life

I just read an interesting article by Gary Anthes in the magazine COMPUTERWORLD (Dec. 3 2007) about his first experience trying out Second Life. The story was interesting because like myself he was brand new to Second Life and trying to figure out what it was good for and how to use it. Generally speaking he wasn't VERY impressed. He liked aspects of it and the potential that it had for the IT business (he talked about experiences at Cisco and IBM on SL... actually there was no one there but an avatar that looked like a Wolf) but generally thought it needed some improvement. He complained about server crashes, poor refresh rates, and a difficult to learn interface. Like myself, he thinks that it has some potential but needs a bit of work before the IT world embraces it for corporate purposes. If you can I suggest you check out the article!

Is Facebook Overrated??

Here is an interesting Time article on Facebook. Take a quick read. What do you think is it overrated??

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1686825,00.html?cnn=yes

Dang it Second Life...

Well I tried spending some time on second life again last night and didn't have much luck. My connection would occasionally drop out and just generally had problems running the software (refresh/load times). I know its not my machine's hardware since I've got 2 gigs of Ram and an high performance video gaming PCI-E video card. DANG IT SECOND LIFE!!

CNN Second Life

Hey everyone here is an interesting story about a CNN hub on Second Life.


http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/11/12/second.life.irpt/index.html

Second Second Life

For those of you in class who are not "The Office" fans (I know that sounds impossible but I'm relatively sure there is at least one amongst us who does not regularly watch one of the best comedies on TV) tonight's episode contained a storyline that revolved around Second Life. Dwight was so depressed that he created an island in Second Life called "Second Second Life" for people who want to be even more removed from reality. I'm sure if that island doesn't currently exist it will by the time you read this post. Go check it out! Any way I think its funny how what we are talking about in class has worked its way onto an Emmy award winning comedy. I guess this Second Life stuff really is a big deal. Now if only I could get my avatar to actually have MY hair. Dang it.

Watch The Office w/ Second Life Here!

Capstone Project: Wiki Technology

For my group I'll be supporting the wiki technology section. Its really interesting how prevalent this information dissemination apparatus truly is. Its everywhere! And its growing in popularity because so many people love to use it. Imagine if google and wikipedia teamed up... They would rule the world!

Why Gmail is AWESOME

Has anyone noticed that gmail is providing more space for you inbox than ever before? Of course it always used to increase slowly but now its increasing in size by leaps and bounds! At present its at ~4010 MB per user. Remember 4096 MB is 4GB... That is just ridiculous. Google rocks!