In order for this tool to be really useful in a combined Second Life / Opensim / realXtend context, the scripting engine should be outside of the platforms and include features that address the issues of cross-world commerce & communication.

I suppose some people are better at innovation and creating technology than packaging and selling it. Personally, I envy the people who make the cool stuff because I sure can’t! (Well, aside from an occasional rezzed prim). But what I don’t envy is the frustration in finding the best ways to package, promote, and sell those innovations to the right people at the right time.

I’m not saying that they should, necessarily. Good ideas have a way of finding their home. But what strikes me about where the Grid is at right now is that there are few “forums” in which specific applications can be combined, or put in a basket say, through distribution channels that can reach folks with the ability to invest in their use and continued development.

I’m really trying not to be overly broad. But I think we’ll see the emergence of more “aggregators” like Rivers Run Red who take innovations, build new ones, and package them all up for enterprise or brand or educational use.

I’m not claiming that Mobile Ripple is some breakthrough on its own…I don’t know enough about it frankly and as you point out I’ve seen other other mobile>>>SL apps as well. (Although the only thing I can remember where it posts simultaneously to a Web site and an in world artefact are the twitter fountains). But what strikes me about it is that it points to a new wave of opportunity that may be emerging – new channels through which content creators can see their innovations added to “packages” of tools and content sold to different audiences.

… all these (and also much more complex) applications have been already realized in 2006 and before… most of them are available as free code… its funny to see that some “innovators” use these low-level apps still for promotion…