a short interview on a conference is here and it’s a good quick read on the sl blog. there are challenges to having these inworld, but it’s inevitable that sl will become used more and more for this. IBM has OpenSim tied into their instant messaging (sametime3D) and once people see it, they will want more like it
OpenSim uses the same viewer, so anyone in it has the same tools that we do isl. the look is exactly the same, so once you start seeing more people having meetings in it, you’ll start to see more recorded meeting on YouTube. once it’s out there on the interwebz more, the demand for similar style meetings will start to climb
over at subQuark, they want to partner with us on a new “corporate” venture and use our experience in virtual land to form a corporate offering for land. many peeps can’t justify $295 a month for an entire sim, so subQ may be on to a niche market (btw, subQ is a partner in iliveisl, but a very silent one!) =p
making some corporate sims (not part of the iliveisl estate) that guarantee only corporate use might work. offering a quarter sim for $95 a month and built like we do could be attractive to some corporate users. still working out details such as having some public land and all that stuff
