{"id":4941,"date":"2006-10-16T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T09:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/amd-virtual-it-experience.html"},"modified":"2006-10-16T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T09:58:11","slug":"amd-virtual-it-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/amd-virtual-it-experience.html","title":{"rendered":"AMD Virtual IT Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure what to make of this <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualexperience.amd.com\/?cid=search&amp;co=amd\"><font color=\"#800080\">AMD Virtual IT Experience<\/font><\/a> trade show that is &ldquo;virtual.&rdquo; Unlike some shows I have been to, this event seems more like a virtual sales pitch than a show. The exhibits in many cases are no more than self-promotional speeches and PDF documents. I suppose this is all that can be expected but the graphics are pretty cool. What I would have liked would be the ability to interactive with live people at the booths and ask questions.<\/p>\n<p>There is an <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualexperience.amd.com\/chat\/index.html\">archived chat<\/a> by the way but this is really more of an FAQ masquerading as an archived chat. It shows the company realizes it needs interactivity.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose a virtual tradeshow without interactivity is noting more than a group of mini-websites strung together. Still this is a nice first step in bringing live events into the virtual world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure what to make of this AMD Virtual IT Experience trade show that is &ldquo;virtual.&rdquo; Unlike some shows I have been to, this event seems more like a virtual sales pitch than a show. The exhibits in many cases are no more than self-promotional speeches and PDF documents. I suppose this is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[1125,1473],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}