DISQUS

Susan Wu · 3 years ago

The big story in Second Life right now is the fact that Second Life's virtual economy may be in peril. I wrote about it on my blog here - http://reality.org/2006/11/16/second-lifes-virt.... It has tremendous implications for all virtual economies and virtual asset exchange. Is all digital content essentially a commodity as Raph Koster proclaims it is (http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/11/15/copybot/)? DRM isn't the only solution. I was speaking with Lew Tucker today (now of Radar Networks, formerly of Salesforce.com's AppExchange) about sound design principles for building a marketplace around virtual objects (which is essentially what AppExchange is.)

What I'm really curious about is how Second Life entrepreneurs and Linden Labs adjust to this. If content is indeed a commodity, it presents an incredible creative challenge for SL entrepreneurs to create truly differentiated businesses. What's going on this week in Second Life reminds me a bit of investing in China - there's a mostly benign dictator (Linden Labs, in this case) who wields enormous regulatory power over the landscape.

MonsterEd · 3 years ago

Link previews: I think that girafa (www.girafa.com) were the first to offer this service, in many technology ways. So, nothing is new here...

John Diep · 3 years ago

See Snap Preview Anywhere at Dexly.com. We're honored to been chosen to beta test the technology. It is working very well with our AJAX structure. It's better than a lot of the thumbnail shots out there today.

John
Co-founder Dexly.com

Scott Rafer · 3 years ago

The Ryze CEO&founder's surname is "Scott" not "Ryze."

Matt Marshall · 3 years ago

Thanks Scott. Fixed.

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