IBM virtual world defies laws of physics


	IBM virtual world defies laws of physics

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12-24-2007 10:47 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7f9d9b85-9eb1-4365-8c25-b5a1e620f389/2B033452-691A-4CD6-8AD0-74546CA7F782/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/122007-ibm-virtual-world.html" href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/122007-ibm-virtual-world.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.networkworld.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/122007-ibm-virtual-world.html"><H3>IBMers play with giant boulder, hold meetings in the air and under water</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/122007-ibm-virtual-world.html"><P class="first"><A href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/ibm.html ">IBM's</A> uptight, starched-shirt image has survived for many decades, but the stereotype may finally meet its demise at the hands
                        of a giant boulder and a meeting room up in the sky.
                     </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/122007-ibm-virtual-world.html"><P>IBM is building a <A href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/061807-businesses-experimenting-with-virtual.html">virtual world</A> to help its employees collaborate, and while it's <A href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/103107-sun-virtual-teleworkers.html">not the first</A> big technology company to do so, Big Blue may be unusual in that it decided not to mess with those silly laws of physics
                        in its own virtual environment.
                     </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/122007-ibm-virtual-world.html"><P>"Why do we need walls and ceilings to do a meeting?" asks Michael Ackerbauer of IBM, who is building the company's virtual
                        world, called the Metaverse. "We’ve had meetings under water and up in the air. Meetings are where you want them to be."
                     </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/122007-ibm-virtual-world.html"><P>"Some are saying 'wow, this is great, I’m ready to go.' Others are scratching their heads," he says.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/122007-ibm-virtual-world.html">While a small subset of IBMers do real work in the Metaverse, some of
                        Ackerbauer's initiatives are simply experiments to see what’s possible</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2B033452-691A-4CD6-8AD0-74546CA7F782/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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