Comments on: IBM Jilts SL – Now Dating ActiveWorlds!?

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By: Jessica Holyoke

Jessica Holyoke — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:43:16 +0000

I don’t think Steve’s a perv….

By: Francoise Fairey

Francoise Fairey — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:20:08 +0000

IBM transformed corporate adoption of Linux by enhancing its scalability, they are not going to transfer away from SL, which to my knowledge is the only virtual world than can handle Linux. Maybe this is Pixaleen trying to play serious journalist after getting Penny to write that offensive article about a resident’s mental health.

By: NinaA

NinaA — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:59:00 +0000

SL is probably some IBMer’s personal foible. He/she probably hangs out in some fetish sex club while not at work and thinks they can introduce it as a serious platform during work time. All the time ignoring problems with logging in, inventory, lag, crashes etc. etc.

By: Bill Gates loves the Herald

Bill Gates loves the Herald — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:17:01 +0000

IBM is doing UOneNet too.

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By: Voodoo Bamboo

Voodoo Bamboo — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:40:06 +0000

Here is something that really caught my eye…. I have been dealing with 3D worlds way before Second life was even a thought. Back in the day in which started all this was something called Traveler!. MTV even used to use them for their chat system. no bodies only floating avatar heads but even then they had way better voice chat then SL has today. Anyway to my point… I was looking at the web site for ActiveWorlds and when I got there I felt as if I had been there before. I could not figure it out then it hit me! when Traveler went under just like SL is going to do… They sold to a company called DigitalSpace. Now the funny part is… Their web sites are about exact! Design, color everything.

Take a look!
http://www.activeworlds.com/

http://www.digitalspace.com/

Now as to who is a copy of who… As stated above, Traveler! is what started all this back in the day. Is it the same ocmpany? Just smells a bit odd to me.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:24:36 +0000

I’ll bet you’d bet a lot of dollars for donuts, Prok.

By: GreenLantern Excelsior

GreenLantern Excelsior — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:03:32 +0000

I hadn’t seen that place before. Is it just me, or does it seem kind of ugly compared to SL?

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Tenshi Vielle — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:01:48 +0000

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By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:12:06 +0000

Wow, Pixeleen is SO BEHIND on the news. IBM has been in Active Worlds for ages — at least a year, if not more. In fact, one of the things the Metanomics series did oh, about 8 months ago, was have a hook-up between Active Worlds, Second Life, and a real-life meeting at Cornell University. There’s one gal at IBM who really loves AW more than SL. So she’s doing her thing there and getting attention. I can’t possibly see what she finds ‘better’ about AW, as much as it has “host your own server” blah blah just because of the lack of other features. But…whatever. Each to his own. IBM uses lots of different things, as has been stated, but I’ll bet dollars to donuts it’s spent more on SL than any other platform.