Archive for the 'virtual world' Category

Lively is a complete disaster

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Google have this philosophy of putting products into beta early in the development phase and ironing out the problems as they go. It’s not going to work with Lively in the virtual world/game space. People are not going to come back. Ask the owners of Second Life. They lose 9/10 people who try it and […]

Nice breakthrough, I’m writing you off

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

IBM and Second Life have announced the ability to teleport from Second Life into Open Sim grids (an open source version of Second Life). They describe this as a first; well, my business partner Loki Clifton and others have been doing that stuff for six months. The big guys may have improved the scalability or […]

Just because u can doesn’t mean u should

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Just because you can create a virtual world like Second Life on a mobile phone platform doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.
Lamity is a new virtual world on a mobile phone platform. It’s built on Google’s Open Source software, Android. Lamity is about to launch in Japan, the world’s most sophisticated mobile phone environment. The […]