Yesterday night, Nick Wilson (aka: 57 Miles)from the Metaversed.com team invited Steve Prentice from Gartner to defend the “80% of Active Internet Users to have a Second Life” statement that they made in April 2007. The event happened at the Metaversed Stadium in Second Life. Portraying the sheer interest in the event, the Sim was already packed 15-20 mins before the event actually started ; 9 mins before no more folks could come in. We had folks who were at the edge of the sim and using Camera Controls to listen to the conversation. As always despite Skype down after the longest of times (interesting microblogging (ie twittering) by Luis on the defending Skype which other service serves 8.5 million users with VoIP live reliably). The event was hence done over Second life Voice. The main participants along with Steve were a Rob Bloomfield (aka Beyers Sellers), Professor from Cornell Business School, Joel Greenberg from Electric Sheep, and Fiona Gallagher (Fiona May) from Sun. There was parallel twitter based discussion happening with Craig Cmehill & GoldieKatsu leading the discussion there. Again, well organized & congrats for the great turn-out to the Metaversed team.
