Second Life's span is virtually over as firms decide to get real - Telegraph

 

As of 11:02 AM Eastern Standard Time of March 31, 2009, there are 61,851 inworld of SecondLife.  On any given weekend there are usually over 80,000 inworld of SecondLife.  Where did Rupert Neate, the writer of this article I am blogging about gets the the idea that people do not have time to "play SecondLife?"

First of all, this 3-D virtual reality is more than a game.  If people can make real life money using SecondLife, I say it is much more then any game.  What about articles like this one:  Virtual Worlds in Education: Global Conference in Second Life, March 27-29.  Everyone is using this 3-D virtual reality.  Here is an interesting article on the medical field using Second Life for training their students:  http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/30/doctors.second.life/

SecondLife is becoming mainstream on how we all are doing things online.  For anyone that writes anything against or negative on the future of technology might need to take the time to do some decent research.  Social Networking and 3-D virtual reality are growing faster than any of us can keep up with.  It is not going away because of people write negative things about it.

If these tools are not right for person, or someone does not want to use them, then do not use it.  There is no reason to be ugly or rude about certain things in life.  They will not change because of someone's disgruntlement.  There are far too many people using SecondLife for it to die out anytime soon.  One day someone may design a better system than SecondLife.  Until that time, SecondLife is the leading 3-D virtual reality.

SecondLife is not big just because of Linden Labs, the one that created SecondLife.  This 3-D virtual reality is big because of the users that are inworld.  Life grows due to the people that live out their lives day by day.  Due to interaction, many things goes forward.  A writer like J. K. Rowling did not make it big on Harry Potter if it was not for her readers.

We all have our part to play in life.  If anyone ever thought that their life has not shown any purpose, then they need to look at their lives through another person's eyes.  I personally write my blog postings in all my blogs to enlighten others.  After one reads them, they are the one that sees within themselves something new and wonderful.  I may never know the outcome or even if someone is inspired by what I right.  Just the same, there is at least one person that could have their life turned around by what I write, and I will not know it.

What SecondLife has done for many is to better their lives within a 3-D virtual world.  On a daily basis, I have seen within 60,000 - 90,000 people log into SecondLife.  Sometimes I do see just under 60,000, but not often.  Go to Xstreetsl and see how many things that anyone within SecondLife can buy.  Someone had to create these items so they can sell them.  They were not manufactured out of thin air.

The more that one does research not only on SecondLife, but anything, they will see how vast that information can be.  There is a lot more about SecondLife than one can realize.  There is a lot more to life itself than one may realize.  That is the true power on anything, the power of the imagination of individuals.  So, go out there and follow your dreams.  Never know what can be found and discovered.

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

 

 

Real Name:  Brandon Bowes

 

 

 

Second Life's span is virtually over as firms decide to get real - Telegraph

 

 

 

 

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Smithsonian's Latino Virtual Museum in Second Life - EDUSCAPE - Education in Second Life - Second Life Blogs

 

The wonders of art.  It shows the creative minds of all different people.  That is why I love SecondLife. It can allow one to explore their own creativity.  By tuning their creative skills, one can learn more about themselves.

SecondLife can allow others to present their artwork in a manner that they might not do in real life.  I live in the state of Georgia and it will cost me a lot to travel to Washington DC just to see the Smithsonian Institute.  In SecondLife, students can go on field trips without the school needing extra money.  All the classroom needs is a computer for each student.  Art is the key to an civilization, and just as important to learn as the other subjects.

In SecondLife one can learn to be creative as well as see the creations of others.  Art is not only colors and shapes, but any type of creative medium.  SecondLife allows others to be creative at a much lower cost than in real life.  The whole idea of Social Networking is self expression.  SecondLife is a giant 3-D virtual reality of that social medium.  Some even have made real life money by their creativity within SecondLife.

A lot of post-secondary schools are using SecondLife to educate their students.  Non-profit organizations like the Cancer Research has gotten a lot of money in SecondLife.  More and more corporations are getting on board this 3-D virtual reality.  Just about all walks of life have used SecondLife in one way or the other.

At times I have called this 3-D virtual reality, Web3.  If one really explores all that SecondLife has to offer, I strongly believe that other people will see how it can be called, Web3.  This 3-D virtual world is that powerful.  If one is skilled enough, one can rightfully create anything in SecondLife with the fraction of the cost in real life.

I think I may need to reinstate the world outside of SecondLife (SL) as First Life (FL).  Second Life is just as real as anything else.  The only difference it is in a virtual world.  In that case, I could call the world outside of SL as the real world.  How ever one may call it, SecondLife can be a very important extension of our lives.

SecondLife is simply a tool.  A tool that can do more than a simple screwdriver.  This 3-D virtual world is very versatile for just about anyone or any project one can have.  The limit to any creative artwork is the imagination of the creator.  That is the secret of SecondLife.  It is each and every user in SecondLife that makes up this 3-D virtual world.

Like I said, "Art is a very important part of life.  Think of a world without it.  There would be no motivation or purpose.  Even nature itself is a form of creativity.  If there were no color or texture to all forms of life, then what is the difference in life and death?  Everything would be a pasty black and white movie....YUK!!!

With all things attached to our computer Internet technology, we have the means of not only seeing art, but be apart of that artwork.  Everything including art starts with an idea.  When we are allowed to fully express that idea in just about every way, than life blossoms.  That is the power behind SecondLife.

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

 

 

Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

 

 

 

 

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MIT makes research available on the web

The Internet in the 21st Century and Beyond.


As the communication age grows with the computer technical age, wonderful things have happened. People around the world have not been able to communicate as much as they have done in the past few years. It is far more then just text messaging. If there were ever an age called the "Golden Age," then I might call the time we live in today, just that.

The 21st Century has blossomed into something far beyond anyone could ever hoped or dreamed. The power behind all this is not controlled by any one person or group. The Internet is far to vast and powerful to be controlled. We either need to grab on tight with both hands, or wave bye bye as we are left behind in the dust. These new technical and communication trends are not going away. They are here to stay and growing nearly day by day.

Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and MySpace gets tons and tons of communication traffic each and every day. Spite the critics that may say negative things, these social networking services are only growing by the million. The only communication item that is falling behind the 8-ball is the telephone. People are still using it, but I would like to know how much more Internet communication has taken over the old fashion telephone?

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Through Skype and other online voice communication, people can talk to others for very little cost if no cost at all. It will not be long tell we can actually see another person in 3-D over any point around the globe. Like R2D2, we will be able to see live human beings in real time over a projection. I personally would like to meet people face-to-face, like family or friends, but if husband/father or whomever that is working on the other side of the globe, then being able to see that person even in 3-D projection of some sort can make a big difference in not see tjat person at all.

What a way for businessess and even the average person to save money in transportation cost. A grandparent can see their grand children more than just on the holidays. The more options one has, the more things a person can do in life. It is true not all the technical advances is for everyone everywhere, but one might be surprised in how many are using all that the Internet has to offer, right now.

As our technology advances in just about ever field of life, the power is based on the imagination of the user of these technologies. If now more than anytime, one can rightfully state, "Do not allow anyone to tell you that you cannot do anything." With all the advance technologies that is out there and the ones that have not been invented as of yet, there are no excuses for anyone to not work hard at something they really want to do.

With out technologies we have now, we can do things that might not be possible 5 years ago. What we can do in the next 5 years will make the technical wonders we have now old and worn out. I personally have not used any instant messaging software in a long time, even though I have Yahoo IM running on my computer. I can share so much more through social networking than any time in the past. That is how powerful social networking is today.

Sharing online is a fast and growing aspect of life. Due to the "public domain" aspect of social networking, I believe the need for Copyright laws will not be necessary. GNU software is also growing and used more than other software. The ideology of creativity has changed from I possess it to I want to share it with anyone, and allow them to manipulate their copy if they so choose. In this, the word teamwork has a marvelous new meaning.

Megatons of barriers have been removed due to today's fast growing Internet. More and more people can learn in ways they could not without the Internet as it is today. A lot many people fear their privacy might be in danger, but I believe that social networking has more privacy protection than anything in history of the Internet. People do not have to use their real names, but a pseudo name or user name. How much they give out online is all up to them. In most if not all social networking accounts, one can block or accept the ones they want on their friend's list. Full control is at the hands of the user and not the ones that are running the social networking serves.

That is why I believe that Social Networking is so popular today, everyone is in control. They have the freedom to share what they want to with some simple guidelines under the TOS of each service. It would not suprise me one bit to see more and more jobs going online than ever before. That makes me wonder if the reason why jobs are not being found in the conventional world is due to they are running out of positions. How can one fill a 16 oz class if it is full already?

This year over 1,200,000 jobs were lost in two months. If the trends fall on the month of March as with January and February, then that can add another 600,000 plus job loss, making it nearly 2,000,000 people out of a job in 2009. What amazes me the most about our technical advances that it keeps on going spite the job losses. The world is still alive and moving without loosing a beat. That makes me think we need to rethink how we live and do things. Could it be that our economy is not in bad turn, but how we are living?

If it is true that 1 +1 = 11 and 11+ 1 = 111, then could it be just as true for it to move the other direction (111 - 1 = 11; 11 - 1= 1). The point, are we living in the past or in the future? Who is responsible for our own circumstances, fate or ourselves? The choices in our lives belongs to us. What we might do in our lives can make all the difference in how we live tomorrow.



Blessed Be to Isis and you,





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Second Life brings virtual world to students

The Internet in the 21st Century and Beyond.

Before I write about this article, this article has links to some videos. It might be at your best interest to watch them. Social Networking a fast growing aspect of life today. If all aspects of life does not get hooked on, then expect dust in the air.

Since Linden Labs created this 3-D virtual reality five years ago, it has climbed beyond all expectations. Nearly everyone around the world is using it, including educators. All aspects of life is using SecondLife. That is how big things are inworld of SecondLife. It all has to due with social networking.

Tell me a time that you can watch CNN without having one of the news casters reading tweets from Twitter accounts. Did you also know that businesses are using all the big wig social networking systems like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace? So are millions of teenagers that will one day be in the work force in one kind of career or the other. These teenagers will be the ones having the jobs that right now do not exist. These jobs will be the ones that will be using the new technologies that would put what we have today in the dust. That is how fast technology is growing.

Educators, business, and all forms of life are on these social networking system. SecondLife is a 3-D virtual reality of this social networking. Spite what you may read or hear from the critics against social networking and virtual worlds, they are growing and growing by the millions of people constantly using them. Even President Obama uses social networking get all of us in the United States of America to live the best life we can.

That is the wonders of SecondLife. You can change you appearance, gender, outfits, etc. with great easy. Based on what you are doing in SecondLife one can set up their avatar to represent themselves within their surroundings. What is very important is how one communicates with others. As in a job, you do not want your avatar to be looking like something a cat dragged in. How one looks is just as important as how one communicates with others.

That is the main understanding: Communication. We are in the technology age, but the communication age has grown along with technology. After all that is what the Internet was designed for since ARPA. A lot has changed since the ARPANET. Social networking is not a fad that will go away. Actually it is growing faster then any of us can keep up with it.

Some 3-D virtual systems have not made it as big. Right now SecondLife is leading big in the virtual worlds. This has to do with the users of SecondLife then Linden Labs themselves. When a business treats their consumers with respect they deserve, then giant result comes to pass. By the hard work on these users created things in SecondLife, prosperity is the end result.

SecondLife is not without its own problems, but that did not stop things growing big time inworld. The number of people logging in to SecondLife only has increased since 2003. Right now of this posting, there are around 60,000 to over 80,000 people logging into SecondLife daily. I do not think even Linden Labs could have predicted these numbers. The success is in everyone, including Linden Labs.

All types a schools are in SecondLife right now. Believe it or not nurses are being trained in SecondLife. In the conventional manner they had to work on dummies. Now they can be trained how to communicate with their patients by the use of real people controlling the (avatars) patients. Business are even training their employees in the means of team working. These two things could not have been done fully without the true interaction that SecondLife gives.

I could go down the list on all the benefits on how SecondLife has improved things in training and doing every day things. What the biggest thing that this 3-D virtual reality gives is the abilities to use less natural resources. By having business meetings and the like in SecondLife, a lot of natural resources are being saved for better use and less of it. The only electricity that is needed is the power to run a computer.

Air travel will be used for less business travel and more for luxury travel. Moderation will the norm on all things when we can use the Internet for transporting of information. Money will also be saved for unnecessary travel. Think about it, how much does the average person travel? How much money can the average person save if they did not have to travel all that much just by using the Internet? That is what SecondLife can solve.

When I was going to school every day, I had to pay for gas. If most of my classes were online and no need to go to a face-to-face classroom, then I could have saved a ton of gas money. Trust me, communicating by email is no way for a teacher to teach or a student to learn. Neither is the use of bulletin boards (BBS). That is not real interactive communication.

Social networking is 100% real interactive communication, if not more. How many students had to wait for a reply to a BBS question or an email from the instructor, and have it done before the exam over what the question was about? With Social Networking it is easier for both to communicate back and forth vs email, BBS, or the old forms of Internet communication systems. SecondLife put reality online for the first time.


Blessed Be to Isis and you,





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Upcoming Changes for Adult Content in SecondLIfe

The Internet in the 21st Century and Beyond.

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From what I have read, it seems that Linden Labs is moving in the right direction. Since they are constantly growing with this concept of allowing the users of SecondLife to know what difference in a PG sim vs a mature one, thing will improve and be frustrating for some users. Remember in real life, laws are designed to serve and protect.

The biggest thing about SecondLife is that no political government is having their dirty little hands in these virtual worlds It seems to me that Linden Labs is working hard to keep it that way by showing that they can do their best in controlling who goes into adult sims. It might not be a perfect set up, but I have to admit it is much better then the previous one. The best way to keep children from adult content online is by proper parental supervision. Talking/teaching children about the human body is the best way to control adult content in life.

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By that proper education can the curiosity of sex be controlled. Ignorance does nothing. We need not fear things in life, but learn and understand them. There might be a good bit of pornography online and in SecondLife, but there are tons more in life and in SecondLife that has nothing to do with sex. When I was young, I was asked, "Would you jump into a pool without seeing if it had water in it?" That is what we all must do in SecondLife, "Look before you teleport."

If you do not like chocolate ice cream, then do not eat it. We cannot stop sexual explicit things online or offline. The only thing we can do is use our own judgment, and stay away from things that do not fit our fancy. Life can go on with or without us. I am happy to see that Linden Labs is changing the initial format they had in controlling adult content. I hope they will learn as they grow with this. As the technical age constantly changes, so should we all along with it. Life does not wait for anyone. We either fall behind, or grab on with both hands.

I still strongly perfer that the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) do a much better job in such manners. It would make it much easier for all if children were stopped at the first gate (logging in), than having to stop everyone else due to criminal activities. Sex in itself is not the big issue. Child safety is the big issue. Tht is why I have and will state here, "The Internet is no place for a child. Just the same they need to learn how to use it. Nearly everything is online.


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Fraud and Money Laundering in Second Life Virtual Worlds : Internet Business Law

 

I want to point out the difference between a real security issue to a right out hoax.  Virtual worlds like SecondLife is a much different platform then the rest of how other activities are done online.  With that being said, "You can be scammed in SecondLife."

The biggest scams are the machines that promise free Lindens (L$).  Lindens are the money in SecondLife.  A person can exchange that L$ to real money.  In these free L$ machines, a person fills out surveys.  We all have filled out surveys before in real life without a fuss.  In these surveys, there is a big fuss....telemarketing.

That is right, you get phone calls, junk mail, and all sorts of pain in the ass things regarding telemarketing.  Either in a virtual world or a real one, no one gets anything for nothing, especially money.  All of us have to get things the old fashion way, "You earn it!"  There are people that have made more money in SecondLife, then in their previous career.  There is a lot of good things that are in SecondLife as they are in real life.

This is why I write articles like this one about the one-sided views of negative articles about SecondLife or whatever.  Things are not as bleak as they appear in these articles.  To know the difference between a legit financial system to a scam, here is the solution:  "if it is too good to be true, then it is a scam."

How things are done in a virtual world can be very different in how things are done in real life.  The most important aspect of SecondLife there is no real government regulations as in real life.  There is order, but SecondLife is governed by the owner of the land or simulation.  Linden Labs gives all autonomy to these owners.  If you have any complains in SecondLife, talking to these owners.

As far as how crime is committed in a virtual world is much different then in real life.  No one can right steal anything.  If one sells things in SecondLife all that needs to be done is set permissions on how those items are governed.  Another words you can keep others from selling, coping, or modifying the items that you have created.

How crimes are committed in SecondLife is getting another person to do something on its own merit.  Be aware that there are hoaxes going around.  Like with computer virus hoaxes, there are hoaxes of certain people doing things that really cannot be done in SecondLife.  The owner of a land can control permissions on what visitors can do on his/her land.  This cannot be overridden by any script or coding.

Hopefully this issue is cleared up, so what is SecondLife all about?  There is a lot out there that states that SecondLife is a game.  I can assure you, it is much more than a game.  You can have fun in SecondLife and take part in 3-D virtual roll playing games, but it is much more than gaming.  Like I have stated, people can make real life money in SecondLife.  Many major corporations are in SecondLife with their own world: Cisco Systems, Intel, IBM, several universities, etc.

SecondLife is a true metaverse of all sorts of things.  It truly is a second life.  SecondLife is simply an extension of real life.  It can be just as real as anything else.  It is how much one puts into this 3-D virtual reality that makes all the difference.  Doing business in SecondLife is not a get rich quick scam.  It takes  a lot of time and hard work to make real money in SecondLife.

 

Here are some great videos about from YouTube on SecondLife:

Virtual Iowa
Business lessons from the success of Second Life
Fraud and Money Laundering in Second Life Virtual Worlds : Internet Business Law
Tribute Video - Second Life (For the Doctor Who Fans in RL & SL)
Second Life The Purple Rose Theatre
IEEE Islands in Second Life (2009.02.10)

 

There is a lot more that can be said or shown about SecondLife and what one can do inworld.  The only real way to learn these wonders is create a free account, download the SecondLife player, and experience all that SecondLife has to offer.

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

 

 

Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

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The Industry's 10 Best IT Certifications

The Internet in the 21st Century and Beyond.


To be or not to be certified, that is the question. Having a certification on your plate does say something, but what? As with any test, does passing it actually mean you know the materials. With our economy problems will it really do any good? If the certification one holds is placed in the Smithsonian Institute, how can that help one get a job in the ever so changing technology world?

I am no business consultant nor have any experience in the field of business. It seems to me the ones that have the right experience, and are showing that they are staying up with the ever so fast growing technology world has a better chance of getting a foot in the door to the jobs that have not been created as of yet. I understand that experience is everything. I would even hire a person that has experience over the one that is a gum shoe. I have to admit that if the gum shoe is showing more of an understanding of tomorrow's technology, I would be more interested in that person. That is how fast technology is growing.

Let's face it, the person with 14 years of experience may or may not fully grasp the social media trends. Maybe that is why so many have written articles on the negative of popular social media systems, like Facebook, Twitter, etc. We all need to live life in the forward direction than the past. Just the same, there are a good number that wants to live in the old way of doing things. That is why I write blogs. I want to show that I am keeping up with all that is going on, and I love to write.

In today's Internet, writing is a very important thing. What makes social networking so popular is that one can truly express oneself without sacrificing their privacy. In that I believe that blogging and other online social systems can be a better resume/portfolio than just one page resume. If one can get any business personnel to continue to read post after post of one's blog, then that is saying a lot. If the great work continues, then not only does the writer of that blog got a foot in the door, but a recognition that will last a lifetime. No one cannot get that from a one page resume.

This brings me to a very good point: If the technical world has changed that much, then the understanding of being certified in the information technology field has a new evolution with it also. Who knows, what I have written here in this posting could be an old format on how people in the IT field thinks and does their business. That makes me wonder if a good portion of our economic problems are simple if not complex growing pains as we continue to grow with technology. Either we get on board and ride the new future, or we stay in the past and go down with the ship.

From my little observation of how things are running, I can understand how overwhelming this fast pace technology can be. Just the same, we all can ride the waves and end up safe and sound. Sometimes one can be too safety prone. Fear only destroys progress. I cannot predict the future, but I may be able to see the possibilities of the trends we are riding now. If things change so rapidly, how can a certification rightfully say all that much?

I guess the question needs to be asked, who are the ones that rightfully needs to be certified? Can a gum shoe or entry level person successfully use a certification? Maybe after when a employee becomes more seasoned with his/her understandings can take a certification test. I wonder if a certification would be too much for a gum shoe/entry level employee. Failing the test a few times, might scare the employee away when he/she could be the perfect employee for the job at hand if given the chance to rightfully prove it.

As this article states, "What is more important is what the employers are rightfully looking for." So how can a student fresh out of school know what employers want in regarding to certifications? Right now, it seems that schools are pushing too much on being certified. For most students it cost far too much to pay for these test. If they certification test are meaningless, then why take them in the first place?

Next question that rightfully needs to be asked is what test are needed to be taken. There are tons of different kinds of certification test. Does a student needs to take all of them? Even under the pacific training, there a more than a hand full of different kinds of certification test. These post-secondary schools are not all that helpful in letting the students know which one to take.

The more I look at this situation, the more questions that are needed to be ask then answers. How I look at it, being certified is great and all, but it is up to who you will work for and how far one is willing to go in that field. Climbing the ladder of success is good and all, but one can be happier by staying put. Simply live within your means.


Blessed Be to Isis and you,





Real Name: Brandon Bowers

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Twitter, Google Maps Used To Track Down Two Missing Skiers

The Internet in the 21st Century and Beyond.


Ladies and gentlemen, this is the power of social networking. It shows how many are using it today. Who would think that something like this could have the possibilities to save lives. If these services can help track these people, how much more can social networking and other technologies we have today in helping our economy?

It boggles my mind on what will pop up online that would change how we look at life, and how we

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will live it. Looking back from the first PC computer to all that is happening now is breath taking. The possibilities are practically endless. It is getting to be that every thought we can ever have could be a reality tomorrow. I am still overwhelmed on how Twitter was able to run rings around CNN and other news organizations on the attack on Mumbai, India. Now this, amazing!!

It goes to show you, when human beings put their minds to it, nothing can keep them from fulfilling it, other than time. If we live our lives to the fullest, there is nothing that we cannot do. The will to survive in not good enough. Human beings today are going out of their way to betting life all around them. The more we use these technical marvels, the better our lives will become.


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Real Name: Brandon Bowers

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Content Management Systems just don't work

The Internet in the 21st Century and Beyond.

I have seen in history's past that all types of people get too excited and out of control of new things in life, technology is sure a big one. These corporations know that one must first find out more about this next technology before rightfully using it. Nothing in life is a form fit, and there is no such thing as an "automatic."

I believe that Content Management (CMS) is the wave of the future, but by this article it seems that these organizations forgot about the most important aspect of CMS, management. The core purpose CMS is to organize a complex system regarding web design. I would hate to think if Amazon.com used only static web design on their services. They simply would not sell as much as they do now. All forms of organizations do use some sort of management structure in their business. These organizations realize they had to draw out a detail structure before putting it into action. How is CMS any different?

Why use CMS in the first place? The simplest answer will be that anyone can use it. If one can learn how to use a word processor, then one can use any form of Content Management System. It is not all that difficult. There is not need of special training. The high end of CMS would be what Amazon is doing with their online business. They have to connect to their databases of every order a consumer makes.

As our technology changes and evolves into a better system or how we do things online, there must be a organized structure to be able for us to use it with the less headaches. If things are far to complex to use, then who would use them? In the history of computers, the 21st Century is the most interesting part of it all. We have more and more new hardware and software then ever before. Communicating online has grown beyond anything or anyone has ever dreamed.

Since web 2, or about the same time blogging has shown it head, the whole structure of how we do things online has launched an all new high. It has not stopped growing ever since. In fact it has been growing faster and faster. Spite the critics of Twitter, SecondLife, MySpace, and Facebook, these services are growing and evolving into a wonderful aspect of our lives. None fo these online social networking services could be possible if it was not for some kind of management structure.

Businesses cannot run without this new thing called "Social Networking." It is so important that consumers and businesses communicate in real time with each other. This rightfully kills spamming and junk mail. There is no place for those things in social networking online. The structure of how we do communicate online with these social networking systems is more then giving a price tag, link to buy some item, and throwing a gimmick here and there.

This form of communication cannot be done at all with a static web design website. Those websites simply could not handle the complexity. With Content Management System, the complexity of all that needs to be done with a given website can be managed a lot easier. That is the main idea of CMS. It makes things much simpler to work with.


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Virtual Meetings Get A 2nd Life

The Internet in the 21st Century and Beyond.

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I have been saying that SecondLife can what will turn this economy around. It seems that it is pointing in that direction by this article. Not only can this 3-D virtual reality can improve on the economy, but it can make a difference in our environment. Instead of using more of our natural resources, companies and al kinds of people can start using 3-d virtual creations.

What might boggle the mind of so many is how can a 3-d virtual world replace the real one? Believe it or not, nothing is being replaced or taken over. SecondLife is a extension of the real world is such a way that it can be possible to do things that might be possible in real life. The biggest obstacle we have is "how much does it cost." In a 3-D virtual world it cost a very small fraction to what it might cost in real life. Anyone can use any form of virtual reality to do things, train others, or whatever that would be impossible in the real conventional world we live in


Technology is a tool, and nothing more. Used right, technology can make our jobs a lot easier. It has never or could ever replace the human being or the wonderful mind of human beings. All the science fiction movies and stories on machines taking over the man is right down silly at best and pure ignorant propaganda on the worse. Computers, machines, or anything else cannot replace anyone now or in the far future. It will be man that will create and control technology. The creation can never replace the creator.

Many companies, schools, individuals have used all kinds of Internet resources. SecondLife is far from the first or best in what is is out there right now. A lot has changed in the technical (computer) field in the 21 first Century. Even with economic downfalls, I still see the wonders making our lives better and better. Jobs might be losing the battle in the real world, but has anyone really see the possibilities of jobs online? Training in any job can be done in ways that could not be possible in the conventional means. The biggest achievement of SecondLife is the combination of people and corporations have been communicating with each other with great easy.

There are many others forms of social networking systems out there: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Mixx, Stumble Upon, instant massaging, blogging, etc. I would not be a bit surprised to see new and better forms of communicating with others online. That is the core reason why

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the Internet exist, to communicate. Social networking allows business and consumers to communicate in ways that could never be done before.

Spamming is not social networking. I have blocked many, and continue to block anyone from my Twitter account that all they do is push, sell, or anything of the sort. Social networking is far more then sharing wares online. Respect is also an important thing in social media. Poeple have been fired from their jobs by what they have added to their Facebook account.

In SecondLife, one can be a male, female, robot, animal, or anything they want to be. It how you interact with others that is important. Another words if you would not come up to your boss and tell him/her that they are jerks, then do not do it online. Common sense is the key. There are all walks of life online. By showing tolerance of who and what they are will allow them to do the same for your differences.

In SecondLife, not only meetings can be done. One can look for jobs at a virtual job fair. Business, schools, and all sorts can train their students in SecondLife is ways that might not be possible in the conventional real life. The possibilities are rightfully endless in SecondLife and any social networking medium.

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