Comments on: Second Life, the Aha Moment, and Hair: M Linden Interview with Venture Beat http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/09/19/second-life-the-aha-moment-and-hair-m-linden-interview-with-venture-beat/ Virtual worlds and creativity, business, collaboration, and identity. Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:45:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dusan http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/09/19/second-life-the-aha-moment-and-hair-m-linden-interview-with-venture-beat/comment-page-1/#comment-18975 Dusan Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:28:23 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=923#comment-18975 Sean: The best comment I heard about this was in a back channel. This person proposed that by working on and talking about open source, Linden had the effect of chilling venture capital investments. By talking up open source, venture funds who might have considered investing in competing virtual world platforms might get cold feet - after all, if the leader in the market is talking about open source and interoperability, then why would I sink venture money into a business that would compete with that? I'm not saying that this is the motivation of the Lab, but it's definitely one of the benefits of murmuring about interoperability and open source a lot while they sort out what they can actually afford to MEAN (or, at the very least, to await innovations from open source that they can then swallow and embed in their own platform - which is also why I doubt they'll ever open the server source). Sean: The best comment I heard about this was in a back channel. This person proposed that by working on and talking about open source, Linden had the effect of chilling venture capital investments. By talking up open source, venture funds who might have considered investing in competing virtual world platforms might get cold feet – after all, if the leader in the market is talking about open source and interoperability, then why would I sink venture money into a business that would compete with that?

I’m not saying that this is the motivation of the Lab, but it’s definitely one of the benefits of murmuring about interoperability and open source a lot while they sort out what they can actually afford to MEAN (or, at the very least, to await innovations from open source that they can then swallow and embed in their own platform – which is also why I doubt they’ll ever open the server source).

]]> By: Sean FitzGerald http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/09/19/second-life-the-aha-moment-and-hair-m-linden-interview-with-venture-beat/comment-page-1/#comment-18972 Sean FitzGerald Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:22:06 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=923#comment-18972 And yet again - another missed opportunity to grill M on the promise to open source the SL server software this quarter, and how their business model is going to survive that. Grrr! And yet again – another missed opportunity to grill M on the promise to open source the SL server software this quarter, and how their business model is going to survive that. Grrr!

]]> By: Dusan http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/09/19/second-life-the-aha-moment-and-hair-m-linden-interview-with-venture-beat/comment-page-1/#comment-18939 Dusan Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:35:36 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=923#comment-18939 Ah yes, Kean. Pip, I fear, is so far into the singularity that he doesn't understand the importance of hair. Or maybe he doesn't know how to attach it? Ah yes, Kean. Pip, I fear, is so far into the singularity that he doesn’t understand the importance of hair. Or maybe he doesn’t know how to attach it?

]]> By: Annyka Bekkers http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/09/19/second-life-the-aha-moment-and-hair-m-linden-interview-with-venture-beat/comment-page-1/#comment-18936 Annyka Bekkers Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:25:03 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=923#comment-18936 I wonder who made M's skin? His avie looks remarkably like him. I wonder who made M’s skin? His avie looks remarkably like him.

]]> By: Kean Kelly http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/09/19/second-life-the-aha-moment-and-hair-m-linden-interview-with-venture-beat/comment-page-1/#comment-18931 Kean Kelly Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:57:58 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=923#comment-18931 "It’s as diverse as the real world. It’s hard to characterize it as dominated by any one thing. It’s a lot more about being social. About shopping, buying and expressing oneself. Last weekend, we had a huge “hair fair.” People want to buy hair for their avatars. "We can only pray That Phillip Linden will discover this as well :) “It’s as diverse as the real world. It’s hard to characterize it as dominated by any one thing. It’s a lot more about being social. About shopping, buying and expressing oneself. Last weekend, we had a huge “hair fair.” People want to buy hair for their avatars.

“We can only pray That Phillip Linden will discover this as well :)

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