Comments on: Philip Rosedale on Second Life, Usability, and Getting Grandma a New Job

By: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » Second Life Strategy, Viewers, and Devices: A Week of Gab

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:28:06 +0000

[...] commented on the Rosedale interview, talking first about his vision for Second Life as a platform, and second the role of the user interface and [...]

By: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » Philip Rosedale on the First Hour, Browser-Based Clients and Failed Features

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:38:39 +0000

[...] and What Is Philip talked about the user experience and the Second Life client. In my last post, I talked about his shifting ‘temporal state’. It’s my theory that Philip sometimes confuses [...]

By: UgoTrade » Blog Archive » Philip Rosedale: Open Source Virtual Worlds

UgoTrade » Blog Archive » Philip Rosedale: Open Source Virtual Worlds — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:08:26 +0000

[...] parts of the interview from Wagner James Au, Christian Renaud, ‘Bettina Tizzy,’ Nic Mitham and ‘Dusan Writer,’ and Bejamin Duranski as [...]

By: WIdget Whiteberry

WIdget Whiteberry — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:32:41 +0000

We could add Bucky Fuller and David Brower to that list.

By: Alberik Rotaru

Alberik Rotaru — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:17:35 +0000

I’m not sure I agree that visionaries have trouble explaining their vision. When I think about people like Mandela, Hawking, Gates, and Berners-Lee, ‘inarticulate’ is not a word that springs quickly to mind.

By: WIdget Whiteberry

WIdget Whiteberry — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:06:00 +0000

Interesting thinking here, Dusan. I was a competent web user before coming to SL 13 months ago. I’d also spent hours watching my son play various Everquest and listening to his enthusiastic descriptions and analysis.

The learning curve was steep and not always transparent. Numerous people were generous with their time, only some of whom I met on a help island. My biggest advantage lay in coming in to interact with an existing community, as it brought me into orbit around an expanding group of people, where someone was always available to answer a question, think something through or demonstrate a technique. Thankfully, I now pass that help along.

In my travels, I met the people of Heron Sanctuary, who contend with a range of physical, neuro and social disabilities. Now Virtual Ability, it might be useful to look at their new orientation center. Because it was designed for people with disabilities, they have taken all sorts of factors into account and nothing* for granted.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Ability/128/128/23

By: dandellion Kimban

dandellion Kimban — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:25:42 +0000

Philip suffers from what many of visionaries suffer from. He has a vision, but when he start talking it, just send him away to do it, not to explain it.

Though, I believe that it would be easier to introduce somebody to SL than to Web, in the case that both are completely unfamiliar. People who say that SL has a steep learning curve are the same that managed to forget that they had hard time getting on with web browser as well.

By: Alberik Rotaru

Alberik Rotaru — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:59:54 +0000

He definitely needs a new vice-president of global metaphors. His ‘use case’ (how is a use case different from a use) is inadequate and defensive. It’s not the aha we’re looking for. The faithful image is to give grandma 6 hours intensive hands-on training on the web and see how she goes, not to drop her naked on the web while you give her clothes in a virtual world.

By: TopMMOVW.com

TopMMOVW.com — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:32:50 +0000

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