Archive for the ‘Big Business’ Category

Forbes Misses the Point

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

So according to Forbes (video interview), we are all a bunch of losers who like nothing more than gambling and cybersex. Proof, if ever there was a need, that fact-finding and honest reporting are passè. our intrepid reporter even boasts of saying Sl will collapse, and has been saying that for over a year now. With all due respect, everything and everyone collapses, sooner or later. It is no great feat to predict that a new born baby will die one day, and is in fact almost idiotic in its obviousness. Just like people, companies eventually die, and its no great trick to say a particular company will die one day in the future, with no specifics. At least, none he mentioned in that interview that date back to his “over a year ago”.

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Newsweek!

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Article here.

Wheelies, and by extension, Second Ability, has been mentioned by Newsweek magazine. This is a major media coup, and I am extremely happy to report this. Things are looking up.

Run Away! Run Away!

Monday, July 16th, 2007

So it seems that several big corporations are running away from SL, if you believe Time, Forbes, and some Californian broadsheet which I will likely never read. It’s curious how the papers that are predicting doom and gloom are so far removed from the lives (both second and real) of the average SLifer. (more…)