One of my favorite Second Life related websites is Your2ndPlace. It’s this chaotic mashup of raw data, personal drama, and insight into the life of the small business person. The other day Sarah Nerd posted Philip Linden Office Hour Meeting September 10th 2007, a completely unabridged transcript of an open meeting held in-world by the current king of the metaverse.
Now, it was a lot of text and will be pretty time consuming to absorb taken as-is. All I really wanted to know was what hard questions got answered. So, what I’ve decided to do is cut out everything but what Philip said and annotate a bit to let you know what they were talking about. I’ve refrained entirely from editorial comment, although some of this is begging for it. Anyhow, topics include:
Settling in.
The griefing crisis.
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“Being Ruthed” (where your avatar apears female instead of male occasionally)
Well here we go. The indie film that changed everything. We Are The Strange is coming out on DVD October 30th. The link above is so fresh Amazon.ca hasn’t even finished putting the graphics together for the page. Reserve a copy while they last!
Now one of two things will happen.
Either it’ll sell enough to support one guy to live, and things will go on like they have in the past. OR, it’ll sell enough to make M Dot Strange a ridiculous amount of money exposing the idea of traditional “must run through Hollywood” as the anachronistic idiocy we all know it to be.
VeeJay Burns linked this on his awesome MindBlizzard blog. It’s worthy of comment. Hit play now, and while it plays, read the rest of this entry.
5000 Web Apps in 333 Seconds
Every single one of these depends on users. The users need to click links, make comments, upload content, push buttons, and feel like they are somehow extending themselves in each and every one of these cases.
If you’re considering building a Web 2.0 application, you’re going to have to ask yourself some tough questions:
Will anybody quit using three of these apps in favor of yours?
Are you allowing people to leave their mark on your site more effectively than your competitors?
Is your idea really going to stand out in a sea of 5000 other applications?
Do you love your idea enough to stick with it long enough to get noticed in a sea of 5000 other applications?
Odds are somebody is doing what you’re doing, but better. How will you overcome that?
