SecondLife sucks for business, says GW professor

Ok maybe not an exact quote but this is

"I think the students learned that people who are on the cutting edge of technology are usually not good business people, and good business people are not usually on the cutting edge of technology,” - John Artz GW Professor

While i would whole heartedly agree early adoption of technology has inherent risks and is often better to wait, this sort of blanket generalization in a business class troubles me. Are we telling our future business leaders fear technology and advancement? if only bad business people embrace technology, will new technology always fail?

IT needs people to embrace its advances and try to find innovations with every new idea.

Did i mention this was the SecondLife class?????

for more read the article on GW website

http://business.gwu.edu/news/archive/2008/0717.cfm#secondlife

WORMS!!!!!!! [Read the article]

At first glance I thought what a ridculous idea. Memory that can be written to only once. What if you make a mistake?? But that is precisely it! This memory can NOT be altered to correct mistakes. As I read the article it started to make light of many purposes ideally suited for such a thing. Police work such as evidence and suspect questioning came to mind. In fact, anything that a record of true data is needed WORM has use. Good thing our first exam didnt use this technology....

By the way WORM = Write Once Read Many

http://gizmodo.com/5025423/sandisk-worm-write+once-sd-cards-cant-be-altered-last-100-years

Move Over Second Life

Ironically, i found the following article on my Go Go Google reader about a new 3D social component Google is releasing. In what looks very much like a Second Life interface Google extends this capability to "normal" Internet usage. This wonderful new revelation is called Lively.

So far the platform is only in its Beta stage and supported only on Windows. Did someone say collusion?

Since there seems to be a tremendous buzz amongst EMIS students regarding Second Life, Lively might be worth investigating....

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/09/Google_tool_creates_3D_social_spaces_on_Web_sites_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/09/Google_tool_creates_3D_social_spaces_on_Web_sites_1.html