{"id":671,"date":"2006-02-14T14:14:03","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T19:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2006-11-24T18:38:58","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T23:38:58","slug":"both-real-and-unreal-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Both Real and Unreal Responses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a kind of follow-up to a recent entry of mine (Link<\/a>). There’s a story over on C|Net (Link<\/a>) about real life people meeting in virtual spaces and forming relationships in real life; an appropriate story considering it’s Valentine’s Day. I know a lot of people are going to make a face when they hear this, but then these same people probably buy into the airbrushed images on the covers of fashion magazines or get upset when they hear a story on the nightly news that has absolutely no discernable impact on their real life whatsoever.<\/p>\n

By the way, the virtual world Valentine’s Day “cards” have been flying fast and furious (I’ve even received a few). So where are American Greetings and Hallmark and all the other greeting card publishers? They basically turned this holiday into a cultural event didn’t they? You’d think they’d be out there providing a nice service for customers… and garnering some brand recognition. I’ve not seen or heard of any of them operating inside a virtual space other than the heavy-handed stuff where they form high-level business relationships. It certainly looks like opportunity is moving to not just another door, but another state – and these companies don’t have a roadmap. Is it really so hard to figure out a way to capitalize on this? So far every card I’ve seen is handmade by the sender.<\/p>\n

And btw, this isn’t just a knock on the greeting card publishers out there. If you’re in the wedding supply business, you should be getting your brand on, people. I know one Second Life wedding planner\/organizer who can’t keep up with all the weddings. Yet no real world company has contacted her to see if they can provide (branded) content.<\/p>\n

Unreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a kind of follow-up to a recent entry of mine (Link). There’s a story over on C|Net (Link) about real life people meeting in virtual spaces and forming relationships in real life; an appropriate story considering it’s Valentine’s Day. … Continue reading →<\/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-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}