Second Life
Reading Social Software: Second Life or World of Warcraft? got me thinking about Second life and where is it actually going.
With his description of Second Life as chaos, it reminded me of the way the internet was first viewed. Now i am not saying Second Life is the next big evolution, but enabling 3rd parties to create the content, it’s only a meter of time for the right strategy to be taken. It may be some other virtual world platform, designed in a new approach, of user personalized.
I for one, needing to do some shopping, would love going to a visual-mall, instead of typing shopping.com (a company i once work in), or even better entering the 3d shopping.com mall. Maybe it would even be possible for my to build MyShopping.com compiled only by my personalized taste. i could walk around, see what others are liking. I am sure retailers would love for buyers to be able to actually see that the item they where after almost is sold out!
The Question: is Second life it? would they be the ones to get in to the history pages or are they yet another glorified chat room? As Alex Bosworth concluded:
For experiments and new services, chaos works well and is a lot more interesting, but as things mature people want something that just works rather than something that has promise and flexibility
When people start wanting, some Google/MS/Outbrain …;-) will step up and deliver. Faced with the right man/woman, the problem will become a great coporate with greater solutions. For that reason, i think the idea of Open Source Second Life will be a great step by Linden Lab, in making a multi-diciplain virtual-world- much like our chaotic one, in our First life!
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