{"id":942,"date":"2006-06-25T22:57:15","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T02:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=942"},"modified":"2006-08-26T22:16:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T02:16:09","slug":"slamazonia-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"SLAmazonia On The Horizon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting bit of news over on the 3pointD blog. It appears that a group of Amazon employees are attempting to link Second Life to Amazon. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3pointd.com\/20060623\/amazoncom-headed-to-second-life\/\">the 3pointD entry (Link)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, that was an eye-opener. Amazon.com\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Werner Vogels just told the Supernova conference that the shopping site [well, some of its employees, anyway] is considering a move into the virtual world of Second Life. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is a group of Amazonians in Second Life,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Vogels said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and we are building a bridge between Amazon Web services and Second Life so you can go into Second Life and actually try things on there and buy them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of all the companies I expected to try linking to SL, Amazon was near the top of the list&#8230; just below eBay (the top runner, for obvious reasons). And while this is apparently extracurricular, if it works the experiment could prove extraordinarily interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;know, they sell the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00008GS9U\/104-4142497-2048758?v=glance&#038;n=284507\">jar opener<\/a> on which I did the industrial design on the Amazon site. Wonder if they need an SL model? Mine is rotting in inventory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting bit of news over on the 3pointD blog. It appears that a group of Amazon employees are attempting to link Second Life to Amazon. From the 3pointD entry (Link): Well, that was an eye-opener. Amazon.com\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Werner Vogels just told &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=942\">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-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","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=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}