Monthly Archives: March 2008

Virtual-Worlds Consortium releases survey of virtual worlds interest groups

Stanford Research Institute – Consulting Business Intelligence (aka. SRIC-BI http://www.sric-bi.com) today released results from a survey taken amongst the members of their own  Virtual Worlds Consortium, SDForum’s Virtual World SIG, Boulder, Colorado’s  Serious Second Life, and Stanford’s  MetaverseU. The  download … Continue reading

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IBM’s 5 trends for the coming virtual workplace

Here’s that list from 03/19/08 from Mike Rhodin  of IBM Lotus that references 5 trends to embrace in the virtual workplace.The press release is here: http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=834515&sourceType=1  Here’s my own description of them: 1) “The Virtual Workplace will become the rule.” … Continue reading

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IBM and Forterra team up: “Unified Communications”

There were big announcements over the last couple of days that IBM and Forterra are teaming up to create collaboration tools for intelligence agencies. Both companies (IBM on 01/22/07 and Forterra on 06/25/07) have presented at the Virtual World SIG … Continue reading

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