Press Conference in World of Warcraft
UPDATE: GAME ON
TechCrunch reports the big new trend is for companies like Sun and Dell to hold their press conferences in SecondLife. To further advance the state of the art, the next Socialtext press conference will be held in World of Warcraft.
- Time: December 1st, 5pm server time
- Location: Goldshire, Elwynn Forrest, Eitrigg Server
- Rules of Order:
- No ninjas.
- Questions will only be taken from journalists in PvP mode
- We have developed means of determining if you are a Chinese Gold Farmer, so do not outsource your participation
- Safe passage will be provided to Horde characters, but your questions may be lost in translation
- Keep your armor on, do not /dance unless you are an orc, use of other emotes are encouraged
- If the spokesperson is not forthcoming, you may duel for information
- Those that survive the experience will gain 1 gold piece and a Socialtext tabard
Wicked! I can't stand Second Life...it's full of pointy-headed business-suit wearing types.
Glad to see somebody get it right finally!
Posted by: randay | November 14, 2006 at 12:38 PM
Amsuingly, I realized that SL is the better model for wikis as it's real time collaboration (you can edit the shape of an object while I apply jpegs, for example).
On the other hand, we could port the video and chat out of Warcraft, into a conference room in SL and share th-- *headexplodes*
/me falls over
Posted by: Eric Rice | November 14, 2006 at 01:28 PM
Funny...but how are you going to get the pro-Horde kids at Socialtext to agree to create Alliance toons for the press conference?
Posted by: Susan Wu | November 15, 2006 at 01:51 PM
@ Eric, that's true, but you can collaborate in WoW as well.
The cleric keeps fixing you while you bang on the monster. See, collaboration.
And it's PvP mode so whenever someone uses a Web 2.0 buzzword, you can frag them!
Posted by: whump | November 16, 2006 at 12:07 AM
> Funny...but how are you going to get the pro-Horde kids at Socialtext to agree to create Alliance toons for the press conference?
We won't. Well, I will, but just to extort some money out of the Alliance before I alt and kill the ones that didn't pay up.
Posted by: Jonas M Luster | November 16, 2006 at 03:28 PM
Cool. Invite me so I can make the movie.
Posted by: Jon Udell | November 16, 2006 at 09:54 PM
Or, you can take my angle and pwn! it all.
Flow like water, baby, flow like water.
BTW: see the article about the head of Sony Worldwide saying the strategy for the PS3 is inspired by Second Life?
User created content. Now, I want to start building warcraft levels. On my Xbox and every other game system. Take a meeting, kill some hor--er-murlocs... make some moneh.
http://www.ericrice.com/blog/?p=205
Posted by: Eric Rice | November 17, 2006 at 10:43 AM
LFG kicking Jonas' butt in GS. Lol.
Posted by: Jeff Clavier | November 17, 2006 at 07:25 PM
So is it the Gurubashi Arena in STV (as Joi mentions in the wiki) or is it in Goldshire ? The latter is trivial for noobs on the Alliance side if they create a human character, but how will low lvl players make it safely to the Arena ?
Posted by: Jeff Clavier | November 18, 2006 at 12:55 PM
Have warlocks, will summon.
Posted by: Ross Mayfield | November 18, 2006 at 05:35 PM
Joke becomes reality, virtual that is. Looking forward to hearing the results.
Posted by: Lloyd | November 24, 2006 at 12:44 PM
Okay Ross ...
I'm reading PC Mag. I want to know how many of the duels you won. Is this where I say: "My CEO can beat your CEO"! Oh wait, you are the CEO. :)
Posted by: Rich Hoeg | April 17, 2007 at 07:51 AM