Well, I got tied up with my other business and haven't had time to report....
After "Telepresence Day" at Infocomm08, I had to find a computer to go buy a few more "glaring" names... Cisco spoke of how in two to three years, they would have a telepresence unit hooked to your existing HD TV, and from there you'd just simple push one button and connect with an immersive experience with say, Grandma, no matter what telepresence unit she was using. They stressed intercompany telepresence.... LOL (had to get that amongst others).
In the booths on the convention floor, I couldn't believe what I was seeing - real time, real life conferencing - like you were
really there. I swear after a few minutes you'd forget they weren't in the room right across the table from you, but were in New York or some far away point. The demo units really drew the crowds too - You couldn't walk by when they were in session - too many people watching! I took a good hard look at the "watchers", and realized what they were seeing is really the next wave of the internet like the CEO of Cisco said a few months ago. HD ip to ip immersive telepresence. They just stood there stunned in disbelief at what they were seeing, and
feeling.
What I really needed to get out of all the speakers, and for me most important, was that this "telepresence" is here to stay. They have put all their apples into this technology as to differentiate it from stigmatized video conferencing. New word ie "telepresence", new technology, new markets. It's going to be mainstream soon - in some places it already is. That's a good thing for the domains! They’re not changing the "word", or going in a different direction....
The combined vendors spoke of how telepresence would work (and is working) in the medical field. Military, education, fuel savings, carbon displacement, "green technology", etc. It was a lot of information in a short period of time but I must have heard it from these experts more than a hundred times...."why didn't I do that"? ie. Meaning grabbing the "good" searchable domain names. I think I even said that back in the mid 90's when the internet revolution hit LOL - why didn't I go buy sex.com, or firm.com LOL!
Final analysis - I believe more now than before that telepresence is real and isn't going away. Not with companies like Sony, Cisco, Tandberg, etc. behind it with their money.... Big boys like that will throw enough money at something to make it work, no matter the odds - remember VHS? LOL! They have the "new" name - they have the moolah, and they have the product.... Time will tell if I am either a richer genius or poorer fool I guess. LOL. In soooo many things in my life at least, I’m usually behind the curve trying to do spin control – Kinda’ new to me to be out in front of the building wave – I have to figure out how to capitalize on the opportunity though…. In the meantime - the domains are doing quite well at Whypark - accumulating daily. And that in the end is the question - was it profitable?
Today's L2 "Featured WhyPark Domain" -
Go Telepresence
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Alan - great read here - This is the article that started me down "this" domain road -
CNN/Money Article Link
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