Cisco announced that its Cisco Live hub in Second Life is now open and ready for avatar business -- or rather avatar play.
As part of this Second Life launch, Cisco is challenging all comers to try their hands at a new Cisco game. The Virtual Worlds blog says ( -- and this is not satire ... this is not something your friendly Cisco Subnet editor simply made up on a lonely Wednesay afternoon):
"Join a couple of friends in world now and take the ‘packet sort’ challenge. All gamers can get a prize after playing at the Cisco Live in world store. The top scores as of June 28th will get special recognition on the wall of fame. Think you can be the top score? I challenge you to test your skills working as a team to sort threat from non-threat packets as they speed towards you at a rapid rate."
Scared yet? Threat packets are can be pretty frightening, we're told, although non-threat packets, even flying at a high speed, are pretty much benign. The blog has a video of the Second Life Data Sort Game, too, for you out-of-worlders.
On a more serious note, other events are planned for the Second Life spot including a live Q&A with Cisco CEO John Chambers, (11amET/2pm PT on June 24). Live TechChat events will take place each day of the company's Cisco Live conference, too. So if you get bored with the real life conference, you can always sit in your hotel room and have your avatar sort packets in Second Life.
Not sure what the count is on Cisco-created video games yet, but know of at least three all of them with the same theme, (surprise, surprise) the superhero saves the world by stopping bad packets: 1) Peter Packet, 2) EDGE QUEST and now 3) the Second Life "Data Sort Game." Fun stuff, or maybe just funny stuff.
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Cisco and Second Life, did someone say Sexually "Explicit Deny"
I don't understand how companies such as the hospital, and Cisco and IBM can get evolved with Second Life. The initial concept of SL is great, but if you ever known anyone who's gone there to have a so called SL, then you would understand. There is a dark side to SL, nude, sex, and controversy of kids playing kids and having virtual relations with adults.
If all the sexual content was removed, then SL could start to be something that companies could look at and use in future business models. If Cisco thinks the CCIE Smartnet thief I just read about tarnished the image of Cisco, just wait until the main stream media get's hold of the content of what is going on in SL, and then the companies aligning themselves will look stupid with no corporate responsibility or ethical morality.
I find it appalling, there is a time and place for everything, and I would not go look for Cisco hardware in a porn shop, so why would I look for Cisco technology in a virtual realm of adult entertainment. To me its just not morally responsible. I am not saying the sexual adult content has no place, I am not that prudish, some say there is an argument to be made that the online porn industry has pushed video technology streaming to where it’s at today, if so, so be it to each his own. My argument is against the morality of corporations advertising, “Hey come and look at what we’re doing at XYZ on the net” only to lead its market share down the rabbit hole unknowingly into and adult entertainment world. I think this amounts to Cisco and IBM selling ad space on their corporate sites to Vivid Entertainment, they just wouldn’t do it, so why get in bed at Second Life, unless they clean up their act.
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