Lotusphere in Second Life
January 23 2007
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One of the things announced during the Lotusphere Opening General Session was that Lotusphere now has a Second Life presence. Please try and join us at 10 am ET on Tuesday January 22nd at http://slurl.com/secondlife/IBM%209/40/60/23. If you have no idea what that means, than when you log on instant message me, AlanLepo Lotus, and I will teleport you over.
We've recreated the lobby of the Dolphin Hotel. Below I am wearing my Lotusphere 2007 tshirt, and my Lotusphere flag. There are plenty of areas to sit around and talk with others. Look up and try and ride the red flying fish!!!
To pick up your free Lotus Second Life goodies, look for this box...
Please make sure to walk into the side room where we are highlighting the winners of this years Lotus Business Partner Lotus Awards. Click on the blue floating trophies to learn more about each solution.
Check out the teleporter (shown below) which takes you to one of the rooms in the sky, and make sure to ride the "emergency exit" transport tube back down to the ground level!
You'll be able to watch parts of the Lotusphere Opening General Session in the large IBM theatre that you can see in the background of the image below.
Finally, don't forget, the Lotusphere building is just one small area of IBM's overall site. You should take the train tour and look around the other parts of our islands. There is so much to see, like the SOA towers, Circuit City, and Sears.
We've recreated the lobby of the Dolphin Hotel. Below I am wearing my Lotusphere 2007 tshirt, and my Lotusphere flag. There are plenty of areas to sit around and talk with others. Look up and try and ride the red flying fish!!!
To pick up your free Lotus Second Life goodies, look for this box...
Please make sure to walk into the side room where we are highlighting the winners of this years Lotus Business Partner Lotus Awards. Click on the blue floating trophies to learn more about each solution.
Check out the teleporter (shown below) which takes you to one of the rooms in the sky, and make sure to ride the "emergency exit" transport tube back down to the ground level!
You'll be able to watch parts of the Lotusphere Opening General Session in the large IBM theatre that you can see in the background of the image below.
Finally, don't forget, the Lotusphere building is just one small area of IBM's overall site. You should take the train tour and look around the other parts of our islands. There is so much to see, like the SOA towers, Circuit City, and Sears.
Brillo Patrono will be in and out of SL today...
As much as I'd like to be there (to show off our e-office t-shirt) I can't. SL says "you can't access this region because the server is full".
Apparently IBM can't complain about lack of SL audience :-)
What's going on here? Have IBM/Lotus gone crazy? Do you seriously mean I can only see/replay the Opening Session (and the live announcements) if I logon to Second Life?
1. I don't want to be part of this SL game craze!
2. At work I'm not allowed to install SL!
3. I think First Life and REAL customers are important!
Do you think it would be a good idea for me and my employer to go and look for REAL collaborative software for REAL customers somewhere else than in Second Life?
Where does IBM/Lotus earn it's revenue?
Please stop this time wasting game. Get a life. First!
Boo..Server is full. If you're in but away please log out so the rest of us can take a look. ;-)
I'm still crunching numbers, but I believe we've gotten 5417 visitors to the Second Life Lotusphere site in the last 24 hours!
Will the General Session video be available after today, or is it a one day event only?
Torben,
The SL event is billed as 'one day event' officially. So I wouldn't be surprised if the Opening Session will be available later as well.
About SL: try to keep an open mind.. ranting is easy, but there may be more to SL than just a game. For me, it's a test environment to see what virtual and/or 3D environments can add to online collaboration.
Gerco,
I try to keep my mind open all the time - but I don't want to be surprised concerning "transmission" of the Lotusphere opening session. I wan't to know. I need to know when all the nerd- and kids-stuff is finishing and real life and business is starting.
In my life people earn real money (not Linden dollars), and only a few of them are 28 and still living together with their motherboard in the cellar of their mothers' house. Life is not a game. Get one. Life!
Gerco,
And .... why call a test of 3D for Second Life? I have much more than 3 dimensions in my real life.
Torben, I can't run into Alan in real life. He's in Orlando, I'm not. Same goes for a ton of other IBM people, business partners and so on. That's a SL dimension that's not available in RL.
Once upon a time, IM was nerds and kids stuff. Same goes for much of the now revered 'social software'. Innovation is often driven from creative environments outside the office. No need to be condescending!
Btw, I agree - life isn't a game. I can honestly tell I haven't played a game on the computer for ages..
I haven't seen any statements about the LS General Session being anywhere but in SL?
For those of us who don't have accounts or access to SL, please let us know if there will be a real life ( RL ) web posting of the General Session. Thanks,
Gerco (and others),
Do you think that we will meet Allan again in THIS life/place? How do we communicate to each other in which life we are right now? Will we have some kind of gateways and bridges that will make it possible for us to keep our different (separate?) lives synchronised? Will IBM or Microsoft make this Lives Synchronization Server first? And - if yes - why the hell is one life not enough then?
Sorry for shouting, but this is real crazy. What has happened to my life?
The Opening General Session will be available on the Lotus website via webcast this evening.
The Opening General Session will be available in SL until the end of the week.
Thanks Colleen, I read this as real life is lasting much longer than Second Life. You made my day. And the nerds and kids will have nothing serious to do most of next week and life beyond. Interesting.
Hi everyone, sorry I have not been able to respond until now, but I've been with press the entire day. So where to begin...
First, as Colleen mentioned, the Lotusphere 2007 Opening Session is now available on the Lotus web site.
Ok, on to the "rant" that seems to be going on here. While opinions are great, I'd really prefer to see the conversations going on here being more respectful. While you may not see the value of virtual worlds, others of us do. To call people nerds and geeks and kids and crazy, and label the efforts of companies such as IBM in this space as wasteful, is wrong and disrespectful. Do you really think people such as Irving Wladawsky-Berger, (soon to retire) IBM Vice President of Technical Strategy and Innovation fit into these derogatory labels which you are using? Do you think I do? No personal offense (since I don't know you) but I am willing to at least investigate these new forms of technology, try them out, and learn about them as our industry moves forward.
As seen in the the comments above, we had THOUSANDS of people come to Second Life today to watch the keynote. So many in fact, that we passed the capacity of the Linden Labs (they run Second Life) servers. This goes beyond our wildest expectations. Thank you all so much. I'm sorry for the technical difficulties you may have encountered, but please give Lotusphere in Second Life another look.
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Yesterday I was there in SL to attend LS opening session. I happened to meet one guy from UK who works for a UK based MNC. I was able to talk about one of group company's product(Intelli Print) to him. In real life I wouldn't have got such a chance to interact with persons who I have never met/know before. So IMHO nothing is waste..It all depends how the individual make use of things.
Karthik, thank you for sharing that story. It is a perfect example of how these types of collaboration (immersive worlds) can be so important.
One drawback to the SL movie viewing: my SL client crashed after 20 minutes. I started up again, but couldn't find a way to skip ahead in the movie to the point where I left off. Is there a way to do that?
My God Torben,
You need to get off your high horse and have a few drinks. Calm down and stop being so frigging judgmental.
I've never used Second Life either as I don't have enough time in my day, but I'm not sitting here tearing apart people that do things differently than I. Do you feel better about yourself now that you've made it perfectly clear what losers all Second Life users are?
Sheesh...