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Reuters news service has a virtual island in the 2nd life game now, along with a virtual reporter, Adam Reuters, the “first full-time virtual reporter.” Celebrity and CEO interviews are held in the virtual world and news is, well, news… only about a different reality.
Video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsSmZAqL6tQ[/youtube]Babar Ali
U. of Washington; Seattle University
My last piece on today’s public perception of CEO’s, Hunting CEO’s, generated a bit of heat. I sided against the public on several issues, but one that I feel needs clarification/justification is that of executive salaries. Are CEO’s getting paid too much or not enough?
My response to that is- they […]Technorati Profile
Ashar Kazi
University of British Columbia
Only a few hours ago, I found my cousin (the name of whom shall not be disclosed) in a desperate quest to generate some money from a virtual game called “Second Life”. This virtual platform, allows you not only to invest your ‘real’ money - ie: convert your (earth) money to […]Babar Ali
U. of Washington; Seattle University
We are in the midst of turbulent times in corporate America. Enron got the ball rolling and it now seems to be fashionable to hunt down CEO’s like deer.
It has not always been this way, and in a somewhat recent interview we hear about how angry it makes Jack Welch, […]This is the fist official post! I just want to welcome everyone to Ali-Corp., a blog (which we pretend is a company) by a couple of university students (one MBA and the other Undergrad) who want to apply some academic knowledge to the business world.
Check out the About page and Author info for more details […]MarsEdit
I just downloaded this new program, MarsEdit; it’s basically a blogging program that’s compatible with pretty much all weblog platforms. I haven’t been happy with the Blog by Email script, and I’m not a big fan of having to log on every single time for a new post either, so this is the newest thing […]
Interesting News of the Week
A couple of things really caught my eye this week that some may have missed.
“Ghost Ship” found in Australia- there was a ship sailing off the coast of Australia that was found by the coast guard that had no crew on board. The odd thing is that the engine was running, computers were all fired […]
Silk-Route Expedition 2008
The Silk Route Expedition 2008 planning is under way and in full swing.
I created a website for it, http://silkroute.babarali.com, yup, you guessed it… it’s hosted here as a subdomain. Check it out for updates on the planning stages.