Next on Copper Robot, we're talking about the Apple iPad with the two of the best minds and Apple observers in Second Life: Joe Miller, a/k/a Joe Linden, VP of platform and technology development for Linden Lab; and Second Life entrepreneur and blogger ArminasX Saiman.
WHEN: Sunday, Jan. 31, 6 pm Pacific Time/Second Life Time
WHERE: The lovely Seaside Theater, World2Worlds Island in Second Life, watch the live video on the Web, or listen to the podcast later on this Web site.
Joe (left) and Armi
The iPad is Apple's answer to low-priced PC netbooks. It's a tablet computer with a 10" display and a multitouch screen like the iPhone. It runs a Web browser, plays videos and music, displays e-books, and functions as a gaming console. It also includes an office suite, and runs all the applications in the App Store, with its own software development kit to allow developers to write more. You'll be able to buy it, priced starting at $499, in two months.
Apple supporters say it will reinvent computing the way the iPhone reinvented cell phones. Apple detractors shrug and say the device isn't much, it's just a big iPod touch. Join us Sunday when we'll decide what's really going on.
About our guests: As VP of platform and technology development for Linden Lab, Joe oversees the technology strategy for Linden Lab. Previously, he oversaw all of engineering, including operations and viewer development, which included the viewer used by tens of thousands of Second Life Mac users (including yours truly). He headed up deployment of SL Voice (without which the Copper Robot would not be possible -- well, I suppose we could do it in mime). Joe's a Mac user himself, and follows Apple quite closely. He's been a registered Apple developer since 1983, before the first Mac. He's even met Steve Jobs.
Armi is author of the popular Second Effects blog, and proprietor of the particle effects store Electric Pixels. Armi keeps his first life and Second Life separate, as so many of us do, so I don't know a lot about him, and I can tell you even less. But I do know this: He knows a great deal about Apple products and business technology. He was one of our guests when we had a roundtable discussion about Apple's spring announcements last year.
Hope to see you Sunday. Bring your questions and opinions, this will be more of an open discussion than our usual interview format.
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