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02.15.09The Forked Road: Virtual World Agencies and Where They WentA Californian, a Brit and a sheep walk into a bar. Not just any bar - but the hottest bar in town. The kind of bar with limos lined up out front and models handing out free samples of Red Bull to the people waiting in line. All three walk out some time later. The Californian says: "That bar was cool. It's just too bad it was so small. If the bar was bigger, and the people were more glamorous and global, it would make a mint." The Brit says: "Sure the bar was cool. But you don't make money with ...
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08.03.08Philip Rosedale’s Second Round: Second Life is a Terrarium, Interview with New York TimesYesterday, I covered Philip Rosedale comparing the immersive qualities of Second Life to World of Warcraft in order to explain what makes it different from, say, Google's Lively. Today, Second Life is a terrarium and in fact IS representative of the small world - just that it's not that the virtual world that's small and room-like, it's the real one that's shrinking. In an article in the New York Times, Philip talks about the properties of Second Life as a site for collaboration and as perfectly fitted to the wider trend of collapsing geography. Philip says that Second Life helps to ...
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08.02.08Philip Rosedale: Second Life Is Better Than Lively Because It’s Like WarcraftErick Schonfeld caught up with Philip Rosedale on the beach, where he was either checking out the surf or actually attending a, um, Fortune Brainstorm conference. He asked Philip to comment on whether he thought small Web-based worlds such as Google's Lively were a threat to Second Life. Philip sort of stumbles around the response, saying "We're not worried about it, we're actually. we're trying to push it forward as fast as we can. We open sourced the Second Life client with the hope that it would get generalized by the different companies and types of people that are using it ...
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