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How do virtual worlds build community?

by justingibbs on February 3, 2010

More virtual worlds and virtual world projects are shutting down. Some may remember Google Lively died a year ago. More recently it’s been vSide, Metaplace, and now Project Wonderland. It really does seem to be the end of Virtual Worlds 1.0. I and a few others have even begun to ponder what will be part [...]

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The end of Virtual Worlds 1.0, now onto 2.0

by justingibbs on December 22, 2009

Another Virtual World 1.0 is shutting down. This time Raph Koster’s Metaplace.com. This after vSide shut down earlier in the year and Google Lively last year. Playing off of Web2.0 I would group these and current worlds under virtual worlds 1.0. They’re similar to Infoseek, Excite, AOL, and Yahoo! – Web 1.0. A few things defined [...]

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The defining feature of virtual worlds 1.0 will be the lack of context

by justingibbs on March 29, 2009

It seems we’re entering the later stages of virtual worlds 1.0. Google Lively was shut down 3 months ago. John Zdanowski, long time CFO of Second Life recetnly stepped down; that’s after founder Philip Rosedale and CTO Cory Ondrejka left late last year. That isn’t to say Second Life is dieing, rather I believe it’ll be one of the [...]

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