Comments on: Small Worlds, Small Minds: How Brands Have Sucker-Punched Virtual Worlds

By: Virtual world watcher

Virtual world watcher — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:18:47 +0000

Well Dusan, there is something very important to learn from your article here. You have been visiting all these different worlds, signed up as beta tester to explore them and see what they are about. Still the thing you like best is an island made by people, not computer programmers, marketing staff, virtual world experts but just by people who bought land and started to do their own thing on their island and turned it into loco poco town. They like it, you like it and that is what it should be about. The most important thing to learn from this is that virtual worlds should be created by people, just as the internet was made by people. I think that is the correct direction for the metaverse to follow.

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Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:36:31 +0000

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By: Looks like us little people are going to be responsible for innovation in the metaverse | Failed Screenwriter

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:21:24 +0000

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An introduction to my “new” blog | Failed Screenwriter — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:31:08 +0000

[...] and explanatory. However I think I sacrificed some of my personal stake in doing this. After seeing Dusan’s rant on small worlds and oddly enough Scoble’s post about how the blogging community has failed, I feel the need [...]

By: Tools + amateurs = story for virtual worlds | Failed Screenwriter

Tools + amateurs = story for virtual worlds | Failed Screenwriter — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:13:14 +0000

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By: Making my blog, more blog like at Failed Screenwriter

Making my blog, more blog like at Failed Screenwriter — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:22:36 +0000

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Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:34:21 +0000

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By: The impact of brands on virtual worlds : The Metaverse Journal - Australia’s Virtual World News Service

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:48:26 +0000

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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:33:21 +0000

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By: A web3d student

A web3d student — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:54:49 +0000

I agree Dusan,I also am irritated with being, “flooded with invitations and blinking banners, I’m enticed to “create my own avatar” and then discover that what they really mean is add hair to the little cartoon guy that I can call me.” Better yet is the “virtual good” I am promoted to buy, or right click, save the jpeg/gif, and email for free.

It saddens me to see that the “leaders” in virtual worlds are so miss directed, and guiding those new/inexperienced to 3d on the web towards short term “highs” with long term “what the “. How refugees from Second Life can put “Metaverse” in a post, blog, or company bio and they are the experts in 3d on the web. What real applications have these people built for the “open” 3d web? What can MoU or ESC build for someone not wanting to sit in a private playground? I have talked with representatives at both companies more than once and although they say they are “platform agnostic” they don’t say they build for the “open” web. What is worse is the growing number of “yes men/women” to these people that have not a clue but their names in the papers a lot.

Let the brands get bled by the development shops that charge for each VW presence. If they are dumb enough to not do extensive homework, they deserve it. A well known person in this space said, “It is like watching companies build sites that work only on intranets, with assets and functionality that can’t be re-used when it becomes the Internet.”

Regardless of One big world or 10k small ones, it is still in closed platforms on closed IP. Open-Sim is a step in the right direction on broken feet.

Let virtual worlds choke in commercial candy, social networks, and 3d chat. The Metaverse, like the web, is so much more than that. What most have seen so far is only a fraction of what is coming or thought possible.

Great blog and good insight. My first visit here, but not my last.