Steve Prentice

I speak with a lot of clients regarding the use of virtual worlds within the enterprise for a wide variety of purposes and the most frequent question is “Which is the leading platform?”. Well the answer to that depends! Are we talking number of active users, number of signups (not the same thing!), virtual space [...]

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I was speaking at the Learning Technologies 2009 conference in London yesterday on the subject of virtual worlds as a tool for enterprise learning. Being confined to just 20 minutes or so means you really have to boil the ocean down – which is actually quite a good discipline since most analysts can talk for [...]

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So (according to various news reports) Stephen Fry now has more than 63,000 followers on Twitter. Well bully for him! Here we have one of the great theatrical and comic talents of our time, who is finding a use for Twitter as a means of reaching out to his audience, or maybe he is simply [...]

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They say “a picture tells a thousand words” and I am increasingly awed by the technology that is becoming available to the general public, often for free or at minimal cost, to enable us to capture, store, manipulate and publish images rather than text. Whether this is what is driving the mental migration of the [...]

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Well that is the only plausible solution I can offer for two separate news items over the past couple of days. 
According to government figures reported this morning by the BBC the UK is in a recession. Well knock me down with a feather, I would never have guessed! Half the high street has gone bust, [...]

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So, according to numerous reports, it seems that President Obama is going to be keeping his Blackberry – at least for now.  My colleagues in the security group here at Gartner have been actively discussing (and patiently explaining to the rest of us) the implications of that.  This could be challenging for many traditionalists. However, [...]

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I am not a fan of mobile email devices, and iTAP and T9 leave me confused. But as someone who grew up (at least in computing terms) in the UNIX era, I am a true fan of email – it’s just that I prefer to do my typing on a real keyboard and spell words [...]

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Well the email is pretty quiet today, looks like most of my US colleagues are settling down to watch THE EVENT! I’m generally not a great one for politics, and I don’t live in the United States, but news coverage is reaching levels of hyperbole as extreme as any in recent memory. It’s actually hard [...]

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In a previous posting I have already mentioned my belief that 2009 will be the year of 3D (everything) in the technology space. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, 3D televisions were everywhere – maybe the manufacturers are hoping that we will be rushing out to replace last year’s 42 inch plasma display [...]

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Timing as they say, is everything. After my rather negative observations on Twitter less than 48 hours ago, the micro-blogging service appears to have redeemed itself and captured the headlines around the world. Janis Krums was on a ferry on the Hudson river when the US Airways flight landed and took what will probably become [...]

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