Comments on: Video: Goodbye There.com http://www.calebbooker.com/blog/2010/03/10/video-goodbye-therecom/ New Media, Life and Work Online Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:29:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Osprey http://www.calebbooker.com/blog/2010/03/10/video-goodbye-therecom/comment-page-1/#comment-2892 Osprey Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:03:02 +0000 http://www.calebbooker.com/blog/?p=2070#comment-2892 I should add that the Olive platform is a branch from from There. I should add that the Olive platform is a branch from from There.

]]> By: Osprey http://www.calebbooker.com/blog/2010/03/10/video-goodbye-therecom/comment-page-1/#comment-2891 Osprey Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:00:09 +0000 http://www.calebbooker.com/blog/?p=2070#comment-2891 Oh, thanks, Caleb :-D The vehicles of There were great, and included more than I showed - I loved hoverboarding, which is what I did most of the time (although my 'boarding skills were a lot better when I left in June '04). There were lots of features, including hidden places, many temples, and jungles, a giant plug in the ocean, etc., etc. - so don't think my vid shows much more than a few hastily shot minutes taken on the last day, and certainly not any defining slice of the There experience. Because There was a globe you could even fly or drive or hoverboard around it, however that took absolutely ages. I had great hopes when JJ Ventrella landed at SL, and we DID get floopy prims out of it, but not nearly as much as I'd hoped. Some of the original There people are responsible for IMVU. There was first set to be switched off in 2004 but was allowed to continue; it's amazing it lasted so long, especially since the original visionaries had to leave before they had a chance to realise their ideas. The strengths of There were many; the weaknesses were, at first, to do with that initial slowdown in 2004 or 2003. For me it was great fun exploring, but once I had done that it grew stale. More vibrant development might've changed that somewhat, but There was set up to be a fun vacation land, and creative opportunities were limited. For a creative person SL won hands down. SL has incorporated a few of the good things There had from its start: voice, lipsync, taptaprun, a shopping website, currency, and probably more I can't think of at the moment. If we could have more of the best There qualities in SL - better vehicles, fluid movement, ai - it would be a dream come true. Oh, thanks, Caleb :-D The vehicles of There were great, and included more than I showed – I loved hoverboarding, which is what I did most of the time (although my ‘boarding skills were a lot better when I left in June ’04). There were lots of features, including hidden places, many temples, and jungles, a giant plug in the ocean, etc., etc. – so don’t think my vid shows much more than a few hastily shot minutes taken on the last day, and certainly not any defining slice of the There experience.

Because There was a globe you could even fly or drive or hoverboard around it, however that took absolutely ages.

I had great hopes when JJ Ventrella landed at SL, and we DID get floopy prims out of it, but not nearly as much as I’d hoped. Some of the original There people are responsible for IMVU.

There was first set to be switched off in 2004 but was allowed to continue; it’s amazing it lasted so long, especially since the original visionaries had to leave before they had a chance to realise their ideas. The strengths of There were many; the weaknesses were, at first, to do with that initial slowdown in 2004 or 2003. For me it was great fun exploring, but once I had done that it grew stale. More vibrant development might’ve changed that somewhat, but There was set up to be a fun vacation land, and creative opportunities were limited. For a creative person SL won hands down.

SL has incorporated a few of the good things There had from its start: voice, lipsync, taptaprun, a shopping website, currency, and probably more I can’t think of at the moment. If we could have more of the best There qualities in SL – better vehicles, fluid movement, ai – it would be a dream come true.

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