Went to the IET at Savoy Place last night to listen to Roo Reynold's Mountbatten Lecture (30th in the series and still in his 20's, just, Roo is the youngest Mountbatten speaker by a good 20 years...)

Roo works for IBM as a Metaverse evangelist. He has had significant involvement in setting up IBM's second life activities. His talk focused on how virtual worlds are being used for work, play and learning and on the collaborative / social nature of those spaces as being the driver for their persistent use.

Best slide? I liked the question "will mmorpg's be the new golf?" I think the original quote comes from one of the Linden Lab guys - but the analogy was people don't play golf to get better at putting a ball in a hole it is a social activity, so is world of warcraft etc.

Also worth mentioning is a link to IBM's Global Innovation Outlook site.

Details of the Bop Creative Workplace conference are now available on the bop website. A pdf of the conference programme can be accessed directly. If you are interested in coming along contact myself.

Friday 30th November 2007
Central Saint Martins Innovation
University of the Arts London, Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AP

I came across a link to this location on google maps in one of their forums and it made me smile - no other reason to post it here than that.