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blame Ilan, I had nothing to do with this...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
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I hope so, @Ilan Tochner... even though it's also important to "do it right". In terms of social media, AdultFriendFinder still hasn't disappeared, and neither has MySpace, but they certainly aren't...
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Wow, excellent questions! I hope that Maria gets to interview Philip again and ask him all about that.
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Hmm. I guess I start to see what you're aiming at. The vast majority of Facebook users have merely a handful of followers, most of which won't be online at the same time. On the other hand, there are a...
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@Maria Korolov, I obviously cannot disagree with you. OpenSim is definitely a solution, even if just a temporary one, but good enough to "fill in" until something better comes along (like, say, a C++...
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But I would agree with Ilan that "backend stuff" — inventory, assets, communication — is what Facebook already excels in. It wouldn't be an issue for them. They already do it for a billion users....
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My issue is just that OpenSim is a technology that can address "hundreds" of avatars, DSG can handle "thousands", but... super-events on the Facebook Metaverse will need to handle "tens of millions"....
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Hehe discussing Yahoo is one of my favourite topics, but totally off-topic in this thread! Aye, Yahoo is that kind of company that nobody understands how they can survive — they're not "the best" in...
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Unless the market leader fumbles the ball, time-to-market in a consumer service usually provides a very clear advantage to the first company that provides a good enough solution.The creation of the...
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... first-person view (aka "mouselook") is so much more natural...
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If people are attending an event that would cost serious money in real life then they (eventually) shouldn't have a problem paying something for it in a convincing virtual reality setting as well....
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Exactly, they can capture the market without having to start dealing with the difficult problems until much later or even ever - Skype leads video chat even though it doesn't support big meetings.As...
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Right. That's pretty much all I've been trying to say is that a company like FB would be smart to use some of the tech they already have to support the heavy lifting :)
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This is more along the line of the type of virtual experiences I am most interested in. Different techniques of balancing user and object load, partitioning objects for fast retrieval from storage. I...
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Yea, I had read something or other on the DSG thing but as it does not especially interest me so I never drilled down into it enough to be able to say much on that.Others, such as yourself, find that...
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Those commercials used to come on so often all I could think about was ...yahooooooooooo....lolI can't really speak to whatever they are doing nowadays though, I just wanted to post the commercial-))...
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Google has Glasses... and took a serious hit on their reputation creating the awkward "social virtual world" Lively. One wonders if they'll be so eager to enter this market again.Microsoft, of course,...
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Google's specially good at launching those "beta" concepts which look so cool but might have some issues at the very moment of launch. People are used to things that "look cool even if they only barely...
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