Fast and furious

What a rush! In a blink of an eye, my weekend's over.

I was too tired to write yesterday, but I really wanted to share on my experience at the International Technology Expo 2007, held in Second Life! I arrived at the conference a little early but managed to pick up some freebies at the registration booth (checkout my ITE t-shirt and hat). From the registration booth, we had to travel down elevators and ride on special trains to bring us to the exhibition area. The rails for these trains are seen on the top right of this first snapshot.


Conference was well attended by some of the major vendors including Dell, Sun Microsystems and SAP. And me being me, I couldn't resist grabbing my self a Sun t-shirt. Some of the vendors offer information and downloads, and by "touching" these demo items, you will be forwarded to the information/download websites using your favourite web browser. Each booth will also be staffed by a sales/marketeer. You can ask and have your questions answered in real-time! I was particularly interested by the World Stock Exchange. Yes, you can trade SL company shares and hope to make Linden bucks.




The beautiful lady on the right, was describing details about WSE and she told me about how sometimes the market can be rather chaotic as traders generally do not put much effort into deciding their buys and sells. The I asked about Reuters and their SL activities, and whether any of these do help affect the market dynamics. She said that it might. But I think as this technology matures, this might just be another "real" market to speculate on. But hey, do that on your own risk ya? ;)

There are endless possibilities with SL. Some enterprising start-ups have been looking at bridging our RL communication with those of SL. And one such company is developing tools to send SMS via SL...


Well, you'll never know what you're going get next!