{"id":185,"date":"2006-11-15T15:26:43","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T21:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2006-11-15T15:26:48","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T21:26:48","slug":"ibm-and-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/15\/ibm-and-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM and Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first started hearing about <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\">Second Life<\/a> on the Adam Curry&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailysourcecode.com\/\">Daily Source Code<\/a> podcast but really didn&#8217;t pay too much attention to it. But, then I started to see more and more information about IBMers getting involved in SL. And now I&#8217;m reading about how Sam Palmisano is participating in SL. I guess it&#8217;;s time to pay attention to the technology and the business implications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=internetnews&amp;storyID=2006-11-10T013744Z_01_L09622039_RTRUKOC_0_US-IBM.xml&amp;WTmodLoc=NewsArt-C2-NextArticle-1\">IBM accelerates push into 3D virtual worlds&nbsp;|&nbsp;Tech&amp;Sci&nbsp;|&nbsp;Internet&nbsp;|&nbsp;Reuters.com<\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>IBM is ramping up its push into virtual worlds with an investment of roughly $10 million over the next 12 months, including an expanded presence within the popular 3D online universe Second Life.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman and Chief Executive Sam Palmisano is set to visit Second Life on Tuesday, following a &#8220;town hall&#8221; meeting with some 7,000 employees in China, and speak with the more than 250 IBM employees on one of the company&#8217;s virtual islands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first started hearing about Second Life on the Adam Curry&#8217;s Daily Source Code podcast but really didn&#8217;t pay too much attention to it. But, then I started to see more and more information about IBMers getting involved in SL. And now I&#8217;m reading about how Sam Palmisano is participating in SL. I guess it&#8217;;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}