Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
There are two big takeaways for me from the Virtual Worlds Forum conference I have been attending for the last couple of days.
The first is a firming up of a conclusion that I have been coming too for a while - there is huge opportunity at the nexus of virtual worlds, games (probably casual) and [...]
Regular readers will know I’m a believer in the web going 3D, well parts of it anyway. I blogged recently about Sun’s and IBM’s interest in the area, and then yesterday I got invited to an IBM conference on the subject in July.
So I’ve been checking out a few things - and the space is [...]
Check out this video of Sun’s Virtual Workspace. They have built a Second Life style collaboration environment focused on commerce. Very cool.
More detailed info is available on Sun’s site here. They call the initiative MPK20 (obviously not because they want me to remember it).
Being like Second Life, it is avatar based. [...]
I have been thinking for some time that the extreme capital efficiency of many web2.0 businesses is a feature of where we are in the cycle and will start to come under pressure as the sector matures. So when Max Bleyleben - in his post on Web2.0 bubble debate in full swing pointed me to [...]
Alan over on Broadstuff has been saying for a while now that Second Life is overhyped - this is the latest in a series of posts. In it he points to a ValleyWag post Second Life - A story too good to check.
If you read this blog regularly you will know that I am fan [...]
As regular readers of this blog will know I am fascinated by virtual worlds. My instinct is that the blurring distinctions between real and virtual worlds is the start of something very important.
The inspiration for this post came from speaking with Alex Tew of Million Dollar Homepage fame and got a big kick on from [...]
