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nursuru: the audio seems to work for everyone else. Is it still broken for you?

rnylanan: feel free to call me Roo. :-) Slides 16 - 20 are indeed all screengrabs from the IBM intranet. Thanks for your feedback, and if you're interested in the use of social software in corporate intranets, be sure to check out another presentation I also delivered recently: IBM's 2010 CIO Outlook. http://www.slideshare.net/rooreynolds/ibm-cio-2010-outloo...

Hi Mr. Reynolds! 'Fantastic presentation' is my initial reaction - pls forgive that assessment but i am a hopeless victim of 'continuous partial attention' syndrome. the slides of the 'blue pages' - is that the actual IBM intranet? it's fantastic if it is! I hope to guide our own intranet in that direction too!

I cannot hear the sound. Is there any podcast that i can follow for this presentation?

Enterprise 3.D - Living and Working in Virtual Worlds

Online Information 2007

Roo Reynolds - Metaverse Evangelist, IBM

Screenshot credit: Andy Piper

Hello. I’m Roo Reynolds, a Metaverse Evangelist for IBM

http://rooreynolds.com/

“Metaverse”?

Neal Stephenson wrote ‘Snow Crash’ in 1992. In it, he predicts virtual worlds (think William Gibson’s “cyberspace”).

“This is all a part of the moving illustration drawn by his computer according to specifications coming down the fiber-optic cable. The people are pieces of software called avatars. They are the audiovisual bodies that people use to communicate with each other in the Metaverse.”

Here’s a popular virtual world, Second Life. In this recent screenshot, we see 31,477 people are online right now, and over $!M has changed hands between residents (e.g. users) in the past 25 hours.

There.com has the Therebuck, and you can see on this screenshot the invitation to earn some of this virtual currency by building and selling products to other users. Might be a vehicle, might be clothing.

And there are lots other virtual worlds too…

http://flickr.com/photos/generated/416810/

Social networking is an important of the web. People want to feel connected. Whether it’s on MySpace, Facebook…

http://flickr.com/photos/shawdm/820926627/

The web has also become largely about User Generated Content. People want to share content. They are the creators too.

Both Social Networking and User Generated Content are as important in virtual worlds as on the web

http://www.flickr.com/photos/therift/130671212/

World of Warcraft is a popular MMORPG (massively muliplayer online role playing game)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssanyal/563492429/

Cory Ondrejka: “Warcraft is the new golf” (http://joi.ito.com/archives/2006/02/10/ world_of_warcraft_the_new_golf.html)

It’s a social space, somewhere to build relationships.

http://wow.uiscreens.com/details.php?ssid=329

This is what Warcraft looks like. You can see a couple of other players, some chatter happening between then, spells, a map…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/86792894/

Joi Ito’s interface. Enormously complex.

Interesting research implications for military commanders – how do you present large quantities of frequently changing info. Games seem to be on the cutting edge of complex dashboards, maybe there are things to learn from them.

http://ibm.com/gio

An insight from IBM (from 2005) about the use of massively-multiplayer games in business.

“the workplace with no cheer”

What are your hallways like? Are they cold and imposing - silent places? Or do you have impromptu discussions in the halls? I don’t see a watercooler in this corridor, but does “watercooler moment” mean anything to you? Do you, like me, go into an office primarily to meet people?

How do you connect with the people you need to know?

This social networking inside the corporation obviously includes blogging. Here's my internal blog

Another blog inside IBM, about new library books.

IBM’s internal employee directory, BluePages, as it exists today…

…and the next generation version, ‘Fringe’. This allows tagging of individuals, as well as arbitrary RSS feeds (my internal and externals blogs are aggregated on mine).

…and maps, and more.

Places I spend time online. Screenshots from Last.fm, Flickr, Del.icio.us, Twitter, Second Life, Facebook, Second Life, Eve Online

Here you see some meetings between colleagues and friends. Everything from ad-hoc discussions to formal meetings with an agenda and guest speakers.

More immersive than conference calls. Less formal than video conference.

More opportunities for serendipity and chance encounters.

Qwaq is great for collaboration and allows document sharing. Here are a bunch of us taking turns to control a shared web browser.

OLIVE for rehearsal. Training for real world jobs.

Obviously we can't use public virtual worlds like Second Life and There.com for confidential meetings. My team is building an internal IBM virtual world (the 'metaverse' project) which is based on the Torque engine from Garage Games. See http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/05/08/the-ibm-innovate-quick-i... for more info

A screenshot of the current layout (though things are being added all the time). Some highlights: meeting rooms with presentation screens, a waterfall (because it's pretty), a labyrinth (because mazes are a social space), a football field (because of the emergent play), …

A few of use co-author a blog at http://eightbar.co.uk

I maintain a personal blog at http://rooreynolds.com/