* Posts by Kyle

2 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Aug 2007

IBM faces Second Life strike

Kyle

Yeah, because IBM has nothing better to do than keep tabs on Second Life

Christ, it's hard to know what's worse - the notion that a significant number of people think that logging onto what amounts to a computer game can equate to physically taking part in a real-life protest, or that apparently Second Life is garnering enough press attention that it might actually work in terms of securing the relevant publicity...

I mean, if this is going to be the next technological paradigm shift - that logging onto a server somewhere which happens to run a virtual environment can be considered equivalent or in some cases even *better* than our actual physical presence - then it's probably time to side with the Luddites.

Christ. This reminds me of an issue of Global Frequency (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Frequency) where some start-up company turns out to be run by a cultist and they announce that they'll kill a load of hostages unless government forces acknowledged the pandimensional sex gods or some such nonsense, and it has about as much chance of happening...

Google will carpet YouTube with 'overlay' ads

Kyle

The only adverts I've ever followed online...

...have been webcomic adverts managed by Project Wonderful. A relatively reputable advertising provider serving a niche market.

Outside of that, particularly when you're talking about advertising for chargeable services, I don't think I know anyone who'd click through a link and actually buy the product/service in question. I suspect that a lot of the money spent on such advertising is actually brand marketing, but that's just me.