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Second Life being used for recruitment

Started by brisbourne · 6 months ago

I wrote back in July that Second Life is riding the Gartner hype curve, and is now rapidly coming off it’s first peak and down into the trough of disillusionment. This article from Nicola Mattina adds a bit to that idea, explaining how the corporations that went into Second Life got ... Continue reading »

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  • Second Life is an interesting medium. I notice there are banks in there, its only a matter of time befire we get virtual hedge funds!!!
  • The business colonisers on Second Life have the same approach as their predecessors ten years earlier on the web and, moreover, insist on offering their stuffy and user-repellent sites. Since the metaverse reflects the real one with an added dreamlike state, they build a square, auditorium or office block.
    If, on the other hand, we adopted a slightly more sophisticated viewpoint, we could design buildings in which a floor – given that it no longer has the function it fulfils in real life – could be used, for example, as a tool to help a group take decisions.

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    Second Life being used for recruitment
  • These constraints have an important consequence: while most organizations are drowning in many kinds of data they are simultaneously starved for vitally important information — information that comes over time from ‘wetware,’ or the minds of involved people. Lack of www.geonlineservice.com access to this information leads to sluggishness, redundancy, inferior decisions, and missed opportunities.

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