This is a really exciting project of ours that I’m so happyto see coming to fruition. Working with our good friends at BITE Communications, we’ll be producing the first press conference of a Fortune 500 Company in Second Life.

When we began working on this project months ago I had no idea that it would head in such a cool direction. Here are some of the cool parts. First of all, the conference will be led by SUN’s Chief Researcher John Gage, and will also feature their Chief Gaming Officer Chris Mellisinos.

So John Gage is apparently the person who actually coined SUN’s famous mantra, “The Network is the Computer”. While this catch-phrase was propethic in 1982, it’ll be really interesting to hear his thoughts on Second Life and Web 2.0 at a time when the sentiment behind the quote is actually becoming a reality.

The event starts at 10 am on Tuesday October 10th on the sim “SUN Pavilion”. Here’s a slurl to the event. Repeaters and a voice stream will be available, but if you’d like to attend in person (or rather, in avatar), please send an IM to Rodica Millionsofus or email rodica@millionsofus.com.

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