An ever growing number of companies are experimenting with virtual world recruitment within Second Life this year. Back in March Bain & Company opened its Bain Virtual Recruiting Center. TMP held its first Network in World (NiW) event in May with Ebay, HP, Microsoft, Toshiba and Verizon taking part. Both the WSJ and Times of [...]
“We are entering an era known as the ‘Avatar Age’ in which people connect face to face online. Because people today trust the recommendations of friends much more than advertising, companies can now seize the opportunity to support online communities and connect more deeply with their customers through social networks rather than through traditional online [...]
We have been revisiting the Apple Knowledge Navigator video over the last year. Much of the video was inspired by the earlier work of Alan Kay. When it first appeared in 1987 the concepts of touch screens, video conferencing, avatars, presence, data visualization and natural language were a distant dream.
Twenty years on mainstream users are [...]