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Flying and Teleporting, SmartPhones and Business in SL

Email and the Web changed my life from 1995-2007. Now Linden Labs' Second Life is transforming my life and speeding up my business and interpersonal interactions. After real life religious services for the Jewish New Year here in Cedar Falls this morning, I posted news stories at DSSResources.com. Security threats and cyber-crimes are increasing. This trend impacts communications-driven and data-driven DSS.

Then I logged on to Second Life (http://secondlife.com/) to attend 3 workshops. At Noon PST (SLT), I attended Greg Quirk's talk at Dr. Dobb's Island. Greg is the Technical Marketing Manager at Semiconductor Insights, recently acquired by CMP. He talked about and showed videos related to components found inside the Apple iPhone and two fake Chinese iPhones.
SmartPhones should be the new development platform for mobile decision support. The
Youtube video is Apple iPhone Teardown at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPhciMud0MM. The iPhone is a "powerful" technology platform, the price is falling and it might even work with Verizon, my cell phone carrier, soon.

At 1pm PST (SLT), I attended a Metaversed group informal discussion. We used a neat meeting tool, Mysti Tool table, but had too many participants and the island shut down. I relogged on and 57 Miles aka Nick Wilson, Metaversed head geek and nice guy, teleported me back to the group. A crash really dampens enthusiasm for an event. We mainly had had introductions at the session with about 25 people participating down from 50 prior to the crash. Metaversed focuses on understanding and promoting business technology in virtual worlds. My SL friend Samson Francis aka Tom Samson, with TeamWork dynamics, was attending. When I returned from the crash I sat next to Grace McDunnough aka Rhonda Lowry, VP of Emerging Technologies at Turner Broadcasting. She impressed me! The RL business community in SL is expanding and it will have an impact on real life business dealings.

At 2pm SLT, I was planning to attend the closing session of the CSU FutureVisions (http://futurevisions.colostate.edu/) conference held in Second Life. Some problems with group voice changed my plans. Richard Hackathorn aka Hack Richard gave an introductory talk so perhaps he'll give us an overview in his BI Network blog. The group was touring some sites I'd previously visited, so I moved back to real life to do tasks like blogging, writing articles, and even preparing an exam for my Decision Support Systems students for Tuesday, September 18.

This next week is the Life 2.0 Summit (http://www.life20.net/) in Second Life. I'm registered and plan to attend as much as possible given a busy, real life schedule. I will probably miss the Networking Breakfast at the Godel, Escher Beach Club from 8:00 - 9:00 AM SLT (Standard Linden Time aka West Coast US Pacific time) tomorrow morning. There is a small chance I'll attend the Linden Scripting Language University sessions beginning at 9:00 AM SLT Saturday.

If you are in SL, say hi to me, Dan Power, known in SL as Leinad Meriman.

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