Comments on: Second Life 2.0: Re-Designing Virtual Worlds

By: Ener Hax

Ener Hax — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:25:26 +0000

shared experiences like watching a movie or playing tetris are cool no doubt – XBox already allows that

but it’s not innovative – people will find innovative ways to apply it i imagine, but i just can’t spaz out and say LL is incredibly awesome for doing this

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By: Metacam Oh

Metacam Oh — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:25:19 +0000

Ener, may not be something to “spaz” out about, but it sure is time,and if you think of the applications and creativity that can come from this new shared media, I mean I can sit there with a friend now and watch say MLB TV some baseball with someone across the country, or play a game of tetris with someone on the other side of the world, sure you can somewhat do these things on the web, but not with the social aspects we have here in Second Life, and I’m not even tipping the iceberg to whats possible.

By: Ener Hax

Ener Hax — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:10:51 +0000

i bet Tim O’Reilly has it up to here *raises hand above pink hair* with the use of this-and-that 2.0. it’s been like 8 years since he coined that term?

sl viewer with web on a prim is for sure cool, but seeing as the web has been around for a long time, is it that big a deal to have it in-world? 6 years to get it as part of the viewer is not, imo, something to spaz out about – it should have always been intergrated – might mean LL would be in a diff spot now. imagine twitter being only on phones (in effect, what a texting phone was), but twitter as a phone app, and then 6 years later saying “w00t! we now work with that thing called the internet”

while it is good to finally have web interface in the world and i am sure it was quite a feat to accomplish this – it is no pause to stop and say “imagine what we can do next”

what we could do next should be something new, not retrofitting something else – going to mars is new, fixing a faulty gas pedal is not

By: Gwyneth Llewelyn

Gwyneth Llewelyn — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:38:39 +0000

The fun bit is thinking that hundreds of companies are developing photo-realistic, 100 MB-plugins for web browsers to deliver 3D content, crushing your computer while doing so, at the same time SL is simply making HTML/JS/Flash “just another asset” inside a virtual world. But gosh, what an asset…

World-Wide Web, you’ll be assimilated. Resistance is futile…

By: Spyvspyaeon

Spyvspyaeon — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:39:48 +0000

Great post. I see the new media tools as the real SL revolution. This was the old linden promise to work better on sl browser.as far as i tested yesterday i saw tons of potential on this new view. Beta is up, lets see what general public has yo talk about it

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By: cube

cube — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:37:45 +0000

And this is good business for anyone who ISNT working for LL how?;)

By: Hiro

Hiro — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:04:18 +0000

“But perhaps the BIGGER attraction, in some ways, is the launch of Second Life Shared Media (SLSM) which will allow clickable, embeddable Web pages, editable documents (think collaboration on a PowerPoint or Word document), Flash, and other Web-based content.”

Agreed!

“With the arrival of Mark Kingdon at the helm, Linden Lab shifted from, well, being a Lab into being a company that focuses relentlessly on product, user experience, commerce, monetization, and long-term strategic thinking – a radical shift from the evolutionary, open approach under Philip Rosedale and one which put the Lab, in some senses, “at war with itself“:”

Agreed!

“This shift goes deeper, however, than rethinking the Second Life experience. There are early hints that this opens up a new front in which Second Life the world, Second Life the brand, and Linden Lab (the company behind it) may no longer be one-and-the-same.”

I think that’s a good conclusion to draw.

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