{"id":515,"date":"2006-12-19T19:04:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T13:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/?p=515"},"modified":"2006-12-19T19:09:33","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T13:39:33","slug":"ibm-to-open-islands-in-3-d-fantasy-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/12\/19\/ibm-to-open-islands-in-3-d-fantasy-world\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM to open islands in 3-D fantasy world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IBM Corp <\/strong>is launching an ambitious marketing campaign in the hip <strong>virtual world<\/strong> &#8220;<strong>Second Life<\/strong>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Big Blue has developed 12 &#8220;<strong>virtual islands,<\/strong>&#8221; and most will be open to anyone with a Second Life account starting next week. Other areas will remain private haunts for about <strong>800 IBM employees <\/strong>&#8211; including the CEO &#8211; who have cyber alter-egos. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Second Life is a subscription-based 3-D fantasy world<\/strong> devoted to capitalism &#8211; a 21st century version of Monopoly that generates real money for successful players. More than 1.95 million people worldwide have Second Life characters, called avatars. <\/p>\n<p>At any given time,<strong> 10,000 or more avatars<\/strong> may be logged onto Second Life, socialising by instant messages or engaging in virtual pastimes such as flying, dancing, gambling or watching adult videos. <\/p>\n<p>Second Life is notoriously buggy;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>For full text click here: Economictimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM Corp is launching an ambitious marketing campaign in the hip virtual world &#8220;Second Life.&#8221; Big Blue has developed 12 &#8220;virtual islands,&#8221; and most will be open to anyone with a Second Life account starting next week. Other areas will remain private haunts for about 800 IBM employees &#8211; including the CEO &#8211; who have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-telecom-networking","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}