Advertisement
Promo

Online business Toolkit

Photos: IBM serves up Wimbledon in Second Life Camera icon

Steve Ranger silicon.com

Published: 19 Jun 2007 14:06 BST

  • Email
  • Trackback
  • Clip Link
  • Print friendly
  • Post Comment

scroll left
scroll right

Ian Hughes, IBM metaverse evangelist, explained the data it gathers at the championships is used to power the website which keeps tennis fans up to date about the matches — and said moving into Second Life was an obvious step.

He said: "These are incredibly engaging environments. The natural evolution was to take the same data that we collect and use in it in one of these environments so people can look at it together."

  • Email
  • Trackback
  • Clip Link
  • Print friendlyPrint with EPSON

Did you find this article useful?
10 out of 12 people found this useful


Full Talkback thread

0 comments

Company/Topic Alerts

Create a new alert from the list below:




Sentry Posts Blog

homer

lets show everyone that labour has compasion[whilst there counting the votes] running upto march/april 2010...http://tinyurl.co...nus very good nb gordon brown said today on our... More

Post a comment

This Crap Site

How utterly stupid - I am ranked #40 in the top 100 - as a member of this site..... I mean HOW utterly stupid.... I have done sweet FA, I have only rejoined this site after a 3 or... More

Post a comment

Microsoft Security Update: November Pa...

Apologies for this late update to our core Patch Tuesday update. Here is a summary of the update .... The November Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft follows the largest patch and... More

Post a comment

Video icon

Video

Google Chrome

Roundup: Full coverage of Google Chrome

The search giant has launched a beta of its own open-source browser, sending a clear challenge to Microsoft in the way it lets users work with applications More

Blog: Google Chrome has Microsoft's code inside, says MS manager

And furthermore, he says, that's a good thing... More

Blog: Google Chrome — nine things we've found since launch

Google must be very happy with the coverage Chrome has gathered. But it's not all good news... More


Skip Sub Navigation Links to CNET Brand Links

Help

Become part of the ZDNet community.

Newsletters