Consulting IT Specialist, with 18 years in IBM

Specializes in emerging technologies, has worked on lots of different platforms and systems.

Loves to enthuse and evangelize, and also is a part time futurologist.

He has been a programmer since he was 14 and was inspired by the original video games and blakes 7.
He is still a gamer, an understanding that helps understanding of the whole of the IT industry.

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epredator potato on second life
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Ian Hughes a.k.a. epredator potato in Second Life is an IBM Consulting IT Specialist who has worked on leading edge emerging technologies for the past 18 years, a programmer since he was 14. As a gamer he has seen a massive increase in the capability and design ethics within games and the rise of online gaming. In 1997 Ian started working on all things web, changing his perspective on the technology and the business due the much richer mix of people involved in the web revolution. Graphic Designer, Producers and Programmers all having to work together.
At work he has seen and been part of the Web 2.0 revolution has a top rated blog inside IBM and jointly writes http://www.eightbar.com outside. As a digital native his epredator persona spans many places, blogs, Eve Online, Xbox Live, Twitter, Flickr etc.. He is now officially an IBM Metaverse Evangelist having led in band of colleagues into Second Life for the past 19 months with a view to understanding what the social, business and technical implications are of virtual world technology used with a web 2.0 mentality and user generated content. What makes this work now? What has caused the massive increase in usage from 70,000 to 10+ million registrations in a two years. How can business benefit behind the corporate firewall from a new set of ways for employees to communicate in a richer way. How can business become involved without killing the spirit? Who are we online? Where are these new metaverse platforms going?