{"id":1366,"date":"2007-08-15T20:30:50","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T00:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2007-09-24T18:06:42","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T22:06:42","slug":"cisco-solidifying-virtual-worlds-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Solidifying Virtual Worlds Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/freshtakes.typepad.com\/sl_communicators\/2007\/08\/cisco-launches-.html\">Business Communicators of Second Life blog<\/a>, comes word of Cisco&#8217;s new corporate <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cisco.com\/virtualworlds\/\">Virtual World Blog (Link)<\/a>. From the first entry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We believe that these environments offer an excellent new tool in our collaboration toolbox, alongside established technologies like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/en\/US\/products\/ps6788\/Products_Sub_Category_Home.html\">IP Telephony<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webex.com\/\">Web Collaboration<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/en\/US\/products\/ps7060\/index.html\">Telepresence<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is kinda interesting, especially considering Christian Renaud, Cisco&#8217;s point man on virtual world technology, took the time to head off not speculative, but <em>potentially<\/em> speculative comments made on the <a href=\"http:\/\/croquet.funkencode.com\/2007\/06\/20\/second-lifes-new-architecture-croquet-influenced\">Croquet 2 Play blog (Link)<\/a>; and did so by <a href=\"http:\/\/xianrenaud.typepad.com\/weblog\/2007\/06\/quick-comment-a.html\">posting an entry (Link)<\/a> for just that purpose. Sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s face it, being a catalyst for increased network traffic makes a lot of sense if you&#8217;re Cisco. So maybe I <em>was<\/em> right. Maybe Cisco <em>is<\/em> thinking about acquiring Qwaq (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1218\">reLink<\/a>). And they might then pull a Sketch-Up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cisco Unified Virtual World Manager&#8221;. Has a nice ring to it, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Business Communicators of Second Life blog, comes word of Cisco&#8217;s new corporate Virtual World Blog (Link). From the first entry: We believe that these environments offer an excellent new tool in our collaboration toolbox, alongside established technologies like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1366\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}