[sldev] [META] There are multiple infospheres (Was: From Browser Wars to Virtual World Interoperability)

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Lawson English wrote:
> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> So I don't really think it matters what ECMAscript 3 or 4 does, as 
>> far as SL is concerned. I don't think that there's enough similarity 
>> between "the web" and "virtual worlds" to try and use one as a model 
>> for another, or bring one into the other. You can have the same 
>> information presented both places, and do business both places... 
>> I've got a store in SL and products in SLExchange too... but they're 
>> fundamentally different kinds of infospheres.
> Zha Ewry's take on this, as I understand it, is that the AWG should be 
> using existing web technologies as much as possible when designing the 
> future meta-grid, or even LL's more limited 60 million sims 
> LL-compatible grid. This doesn't make the SL viewer a web browser,  of 
> course, but helps make it conceivable that it can run anywhere a web 
> browser can.

There is a serious issue about that to consider. One you can consider 
here between what happened with Goog411 and Free411:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20071102_003354.html

That article goes into a lot of details over the issue.

Now after you read that, consider what happened to a lot of the 
so-called banks in SL that invested the money into advertisements, like 
AdWords and AdSense. We know of a famous one, Ginko. What Cringely 
publishes is a clear reason why Ginko could not straight-up recover -- 
it wasn't the gambling bit. Here, there is proof that "using existing 
web technologies as much as possible" beyond the design could lead to a 
financial disaster. Even if an investment fund tried to liquidate 
(opt-out) of the purchases made to advertisements means, it still got spent.

People have got to think outside of the web and back into terms of the 
Internet and lower level layers.

It caught my interest that Cringely has a link to a pre-web era 
interview on his website:

#13 with Judy Estrin: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/

I remember Xerox PARC. =)

The WWW today in its static context is a fad. We've seen static context 
with dynamic content, and now it moves into dynamic context with dynamic 
content as virtual worlds were before the WWW -- but with better 
graphics and other hardware!

Now, now we need a dynamic compiler to handle dynamic context with 
dynamic content, and I know where to find one that's "mature"! Good 
enough to handle billions of real U.S. money. =)

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