On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Casey Ransberger <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2. Their entire business model ended up being a cultural toxin. Free > accounts mean spam and griefing/trolling/abuse. A profit motive for users > seemed like a good idea at the outset, as it's about the most marketable > universal out there, but it seems that DRM+UGC = red light district, real > estate, fashion, and a handful of enterprise applications which would > probably be served at least as well by Teleplace. I think one ultimately > wants user generated content, but I'm not sure what the right way to do it > is. One might read a book about Logo:) > I think any solution will need to accommodate porn, or it simply won't be accepted. The idea should be, instead, to keep it from infecting everything else and allow parents to protect their children. My own interest, when I was pursuing this in 2003-4, was scalable composition of federated worlds. Today, I'm somewhat interested in 3D as an abstract space for layout of information. For example, we can have a sort of XSLT or XQuery generating 3D content, and thus see the same 'world' with many different views. This could possibly solve the problems 3D has with information density. We'd get a 3D world where the only real content is 'information', and the layout of that information is up to the client.
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