{"id":2540,"date":"2008-07-31T21:17:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T02:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2008-08-01T06:26:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T11:26:19","slug":"secondlifegopherofvirtualworlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/secondlifegopherofvirtualworlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Life == Gopher of Virtual Worlds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/07\/31\/philip-rosedale-doesnt-see-browser-based-virtual-worlds-as-a-threat-to-second-life-is-he-in-denial\">Eric Schonfeld interviews Phillip Rosedale of Second Life for TechCrunch asking<\/a> &#8220;Will browser-based virtual worlds challenge the client-based Second Life?&#8221; Rosedale on video has no fears; SL will prevail. But commentors on the article are less sure.<\/p>\n<p>For my part, I was there at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeinc.net\/fortune\/conferences\/brainstormtech\/tech_home.html\">the Fortune conference<\/a> when Rosedale claimed from the stage that SL was simpler to operate than moving a mouse and clicking on a web page. I may have misheard, but I didn&#8217;t mis-see when I watched Vint Cerf&#8217;s jaw drop in concert with my own.<\/p>\n<p>Rosedale was on stage with Joi Ito and Larry Lessig and their response to &#8220;2018: Life on the Net&#8221; was very different &#8212; a whole world apart from SL &#8212; which made the whole digression even odder and somewhat out of context. Perhaps Rosedale was on message from marketing as others including Eric are noticing.<\/p>\n<p>Office is safe from Google Docs, err no. Neither is SL safe from a more agile competitor unless SL too becomes agile and in fact lighter on the client side. We still may be waiting on that competitor.<\/p>\n<p>One wag in our office says &#8220;Second Life is the Gopher of virtual worlds; it looks so good because there is so little else to look at.&#8221; That will not remain true; there is no doubt a WWW for virtual worlds out there.<\/p>\n<p>On other Second Life fronts, I went to visit the ibiblio homestead on SL today. It was gone. We must have had a subsubsubsubprime morgage the invisible second hand of SL economics moved swiftly and our building was no more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Schonfeld interviews Phillip Rosedale of Second Life for TechCrunch asking &#8220;Will browser-based virtual worlds challenge the client-based Second Life?&#8221; Rosedale on video has no fears; SL will prevail. But commentors on the article are less sure. For my part, I was there at the Fortune conference when Rosedale claimed from the stage that SL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}