http://www.metaversejournal.com/2007/06/20/some-big-guns-take-aim-at-sls-usefulness-for-business/ Coverage of news, issues and events occurring in virtual worlds or those who create those worlds Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:32:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.metaversejournal.com/2007/06/20/some-big-guns-take-aim-at-sls-usefulness-for-business/comment-page-1/#comment-135846 skribe Forti Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:03:54 +0000 http://www.sloz.info/2007/06/20/some-big-guns-take-aim-at-sls-usefulness-for-business/#comment-135846 Clearly these businesses have been ill-advised. The whole 'if you build it they will come' mentality doesn't work in sl. It's just like 1994 again when companies were coming to grips with this new internet thing. Many in the commenteriat back then wrote it off as a fad too (inhabited only by fanboys), in fact I remember one boldly declaring that 'nobody will make any money off the internet'. History has proven just how wrong they were. Same will happen with SL (or if LL don't get a clue, it's successor). The rules for business have changed. When the Wells Fargos and Aloft's work that out they'll be back. Clearly these businesses have been ill-advised. The whole ‘if you build it they will come’ mentality doesn’t work in sl. It’s just like 1994 again when companies were coming to grips with this new internet thing. Many in the commenteriat back then wrote it off as a fad too (inhabited only by fanboys), in fact I remember one boldly declaring that ‘nobody will make any money off the internet’. History has proven just how wrong they were. Same will happen with SL (or if LL don’t get a clue, it’s successor). The rules for business have changed. When the Wells Fargos and Aloft’s work that out they’ll be back.

]]> http://www.metaversejournal.com/2007/06/20/some-big-guns-take-aim-at-sls-usefulness-for-business/comment-page-1/#comment-9649 skribe Forti Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:03:54 +0000 http://www.sloz.info/2007/06/20/some-big-guns-take-aim-at-sls-usefulness-for-business/#comment-9649 Clearly these businesses have been ill-advised. The whole 'if you build it they will come' mentality doesn't work in sl. It's just like 1994 again when companies were coming to grips with this new internet thing. Many in the commenteriat back then wrote it off as a fad too (inhabited only by fanboys), in fact I remember one boldly declaring that 'nobody will make any money off the internet'. History has proven just how wrong they were. Same will happen with SL (or if LL don't get a clue, it's successor). The rules for business have changed. When the Wells Fargos and Aloft's work that out they'll be back. Clearly these businesses have been ill-advised. The whole ‘if you build it they will come’ mentality doesn’t work in sl. It’s just like 1994 again when companies were coming to grips with this new internet thing. Many in the commenteriat back then wrote it off as a fad too (inhabited only by fanboys), in fact I remember one boldly declaring that ‘nobody will make any money off the internet’. History has proven just how wrong they were. Same will happen with SL (or if LL don’t get a clue, it’s successor). The rules for business have changed. When the Wells Fargos and Aloft’s work that out they’ll be back.

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