Posted on December 12, 2006 11:31 pm by Shel Holtz | Second Life | Technology
Brian Kramer from McDonalds dropped me an email with link to a C|Net story about the seriousness with which IBM is taking Second Life and other metaverses. Next month, Big Blue will debut a special group assembled to address virtual worlds. IBM sees such worlds as EBO’s—emerging business opportunities—according to Irving Wladawsky-Berger, vice president of technical strategy and innovation.
Also, on Monday, IBM will…
Posted on December 3, 2006 6:53 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
Murphy does more than live. Murphy thrives.
I’d been experiencing some hardware problems with my server for a couple months. Many readers noted that a visit here was often greeted with some kind of database error. This was evidently caused when the server would suddenly reboot for no reason, intermittently at first, then as frequently as eight or 10 times per hour, then…
Posted on November 10, 2006 10:42 am by Shel Holtz | Business | Social Media | Technology
Whenever I give a talk on the whole social media thing, one of the questions that invariably arises is, “What software will we need and how will I be able to convince IT to get it and install it?”
The answer to that question may have gotten a lot easier with Intel‘s launch of Suite 2.0, an interesting bundling of several popular social media…
Posted on October 31, 2006 7:52 am by Shel Holtz | RSS | Technology
Pluck, one of the early entries among RSS readers, is fading into the sunset. The plugin for Internet Explorer and Firefox will be discontinued effective January 7, 2007, according to a notice on the company’s website.
Internet Explorer 7 offers RSS built-in, which supercedes the need for a plugin, and early reports indicate uptake of IE7 is exceeding expectations. The Pluck…
Posted on October 14, 2006 2:44 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
I know Microsofties are listening out there, so rather than rant and rave, I’ll just explain what happened and see if anyone from MS has a suggestion.
I’m running Windows XP SP-2 and have been happily running the public beta for Office 2007 (which I love). A minor problem has occurred whenever Microsoft releases an update. I have to repair the Office 2007…
Posted on October 3, 2006 8:24 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
At 10,000 feet, the flight attendant on my flight from LaGuardia to Denver (and then on to Ontario, California for Podcast Expo) informed us that it was now safe to use our personal electronic devices. I pulled my Mac PowerBook G4 out of my briefcase, fired it up, and got to work on the presentation I had been preparing for…
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