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9 months ago
in Tappity-tap Cranial Tap – anyone home? on The Metaverse Journal
Feldspar, thanks for stopping by Cranial Tap's showcase. We appreciate the honest review. It's not hard to argue that a cohesive offering at the showcase is not present. The goal is to stimulate the business community related to what virtual world solutions can look like. In actual deployments of these solutions, they never look like a shrink wrapped offering. We customize solutions to meet the needs of our clients.
I'm surprised by how you represented the business opportunities in virtual worlds. We could argue the demand, but that's already proven. Why bash our efforts when reporting a competitors offering in a vastly different light: "..applications like this do drive virtual worlds closer to the business mainstream". This quote is from 9/18, only weeks ago.
Lastly, most reporters I know ask questions in complete sentences. Go back and try this with Tia, she's not perfect but does have answers.
I'm surprised by how you represented the business opportunities in virtual worlds. We could argue the demand, but that's already proven. Why bash our efforts when reporting a competitors offering in a vastly different light: "..applications like this do drive virtual worlds closer to the business mainstream". This quote is from 9/18, only weeks ago.
Lastly, most reporters I know ask questions in complete sentences. Go back and try this with Tia, she's not perfect but does have answers.
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Feldspar
Hi Dave,
Thank you for stopping by and checking out the post, and for your comment.
I was looking at the showcase from the point of "usability" in demonstration as well as display, and expected that all the notecards would be finished off and ready for viewing, that Tia would be able to answer my queries - as a potential customer of your services might. I did want to make the point that your company does indeed seem to have a useful service to provide to your customers; I think I was hoping for more than the standard fare, especially in looking through the displays of existing clients, and that my disappointment came through more strongly than intended. Also, I intended to give the impression that your company does have a lot to offer, it's just that the showcase didn't give me the feeling that it was showing off your best work. That's what showcases are for - showing off your absolute best.
Now, to Tia: indeed, you are correct, reporters do often ask questions in complete sentences. However, not only are end users more likely to use single words or partial sentences, so is anyone used to interacting with simple bots and playing text adventure games. Nonetheless, I would like to try my luck with Tia again.
Finally, I hope you are not disheartened. I'd like to see you work on the showcase, polish Tia, finish up the loose ends. I'd be excited to come back and evaluate your site again in the future, at which point I will again give my honest opinion.
Thank you for stopping by and checking out the post, and for your comment.
I was looking at the showcase from the point of "usability" in demonstration as well as display, and expected that all the notecards would be finished off and ready for viewing, that Tia would be able to answer my queries - as a potential customer of your services might. I did want to make the point that your company does indeed seem to have a useful service to provide to your customers; I think I was hoping for more than the standard fare, especially in looking through the displays of existing clients, and that my disappointment came through more strongly than intended. Also, I intended to give the impression that your company does have a lot to offer, it's just that the showcase didn't give me the feeling that it was showing off your best work. That's what showcases are for - showing off your absolute best.
Now, to Tia: indeed, you are correct, reporters do often ask questions in complete sentences. However, not only are end users more likely to use single words or partial sentences, so is anyone used to interacting with simple bots and playing text adventure games. Nonetheless, I would like to try my luck with Tia again.
Finally, I hope you are not disheartened. I'd like to see you work on the showcase, polish Tia, finish up the loose ends. I'd be excited to come back and evaluate your site again in the future, at which point I will again give my honest opinion.
I suppose it is sort of a philosophical or methodological choice. There's an array of possibilities in front of me, but with my customer hat on, I'm actually looking for signs that my choice of MDC can deliver slickered up, polished and complete the job. So many MDCs I've seen seem to lack the follow-through to ultimately *complete* a great idea, and it's one of the things I really look for myself.