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Sun Holds News Conference In Second Life
mikesd81 writes, "Internet News is reporting that Sun held an in-world news conference in the online game Second Life. From the article: 'Tuesday, Sun became the first Fortune 500 company to hold an "in-world" press conference to show off its new pavilion in Second Life, the popular 3D online world. Sun said it plans to invest in the Sun Pavilion as a place for developers to try out code, share ideas, and receive training.' Sun hopes to reach millions of Java developers, as opposed to the 22,000 that show up at its JavaOne conference each year." Good luck with that goal of "millions" — the total population of SL is under 800,000. And, who knew that Sun has a Chief Gaming Officer? Good quote from him in the article. He said Second Life isn't a game, "It's an amazing platform for global communications."
Do I need to pay for access to Second Life to communicate globally? I prefer to communicate globally in my First Life, so to speak... it's amazing! ;)
Any channel spammer from the Starcraft/Diablo II days could have told you about the potential to reach millions of customers...
Light a fire for a man and he'll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
and it wants it's bubble back.
Seriously though, I think this is another sign that Sun isn't focused. Yes they have product and technology, but I don't see them turning it into sales. Company hasn't kept up with market changes in this way.
Warm and fuzzy this may be, but show me the money!
http://www.maxineudall.com/2010/02/should-economists-be-sued-for-malpractice.html
C-level titles are overdone. Especially "CIO" (I="Information") and "CTO" (T="Technology") and CSO (S="Security"). All of these functions are secondary to real business purposes; they wouldn't have a job if they weren't assisting someone else.
Think of it another way: When's the last time you saw your "CJO" (J="Janitorial")?
You know it's interesting that he termed it a great communications medium, because it is. Or it could be, with some work.
Think of all the time that people are sinking to keep email- a stressed and some would say broken- tenable into the future... now divert some of that energy into making Second Life (or a Second Life-like system) into something useful for communication. The result would be newer, richer and arguably better suited for human communication than text based email ever will be.
Coo. Just plain coo.
You think that's bad? I heard that Steve Jobs rides to his Apple Expo keynotes in a car not made by Apple! And sometimes when the CEO of McDonalds goes to lunches with business clients, sometimes he goes to restaurants that don't serve Big Macs! Hell, I work in an architecture firm, but I live in a house that someone else designed. I must think I'm crap!
They're basically saying, rather than roll our own online "environment" for this project, we'll just use a pre-existing one, and save our company some money by not doing a lot of extra work. That seems to make sense to me.
One time I threw a brick at a duck.
Personally I'm glad Sun has gained some focus here on server-side technology (they said their tech could make SL's servers work better, both hardware uberboxen and the software project they mentioned), and that they've stopped wasting time trying to do the impossible (be a consumer OS platform like Windows or Mac OS X). Their shareholders should (continue to) be pleased.
Sorry for the ad hominem, but perhaps these things are related. Oh snap.
You're a fucking moron if you think that assholes annoying people is "greifing". I had friends who used to do similar things, and they're (along with a bunch of their friends who basically did nothing except exist in the same group with them) all banned now over things that could have been handled on a parcel-by-parcel basis.
Second Life is a huge shithole of malls, 'sex clubs' and batshit crazy, self-important, no-reason morons. The only fun I ever had was hanging out with friends mentioned above, who also happened to make really funny and creative builds too. Now that they're gone, and I feel like there is a banhammer just waiting to hit me just by association, I have no more reason to be there. I suppose it's a great place to be if you feel like conforming to the whims of the hundreds of subcultures and not being able to say a bad thing about any of them, ever, without them being offended and reporting you.
Another case of a game with tons of potential ruined by its userbase.
I'm the guy with the unpopular opinion