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Irwin Lazar, Vice President & Service Director, Nemertes Research

February 26, 2008

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This past weekend my son received something called a "Webkin", a stuffed animal that comes complete with its own virtual world.  You register your Webkin on their web site using its unique ID, and then you are free to create a virtual world for your creature, as well as interact with other Webkin owners.  My son was quite excited to find that his Webkin could visit with other Webkinz, and he spent a good part of the day trying to see if he could find his friends on the site.

Social networking is now making its way into the under 10 members of society, who I'm guessing will grow up to always know social networks and virtual worlds in the same way that people of my generation we've always known television.  I wonder what will be the next mass technology among "their" kids?

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Irwin Lazar

Vice President & Service Director, Nemertes Research

Irwin Lazar is the Vice President and Service Director at Nemertes Research, where he manages research operations, develops and manages research projects, conducts and analyzes primary research, and advises numerous enterprise and vendor clients. Irwin is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in areas including VOIP, UC, video conferencing, social computing, collaboration, contact center and customer engagement.

A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and sought-after speaker and author, Irwin is a blogger for No Jitter and frequent author for SearchUnifiedCommunications.com. He is a frequent resource for the business and trade press and is regular speaker at events such as Enterprise Connect and Interop. Irwin's earlier background was in IP network architecture, design and engineering.

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