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Nicholas’ Carr has a great post on the change of strategy @ Google.
From the spaghetti strategy to the cloud strategy. Here is a quote he makes from brin.

What we’re doing now is we are trying to create the horizontal functionality across a range of products, across media types and so forth. For example, I mentioned already Google Apps for Your Domain, and that in a sense is a product, but really it just combines a whole bunch of other offerings together, seamlessly integrated together so they can work well for an organization.

Another example which we haven’t gotten quite up and running yet, but when you want to share your documents or your pictures or your videos, it would be nice to have the exact same way to share all those things, to have all that functionality available across all of those media types in the identical way, rather than developing sort of one-offs for each of those products …

The way he sees Youtube is great … if google is clouding then Yahoo should definitevely be puzzling.
In a product production bubble it’s a great idea ! One stop shop is still a very value added proposal. That’s what I like about U.[lik].

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20 minutes, the free newspaper has made its cover on Second Life.
The article is a full page in  french about CASH made on second life. You have a small piece on the CopyBoot that created a riot inside the world. Read more about it on the blog of Nic. You also have an interview of Michel Gensollen, I like his view, he has written an essay called "Les communautés en ligne : échanges de fichiers, partage d’expériences et participations virtuelle" which is really smart.

But the all subject about SL is CASH !

I don’t have all the time needed to explain my view on the SL’s economics, but I just want to sahre with you an experience I had in a previous comany called Beenz. Beenz was a reward point program back in the first bubble (they crashed quickly after). I’ve studied the beenz economy with an economist and here are our findings :

The more virtual cash you put in the system, the more transactions are accepted !
So just have more user get the paid option, so they receive Linden Dollar, the fastest you economy will grow (I do not mention incentive like invite a friend for 500L$). It could seems obvious but that says a lot about building an economy based on currency production. In other term it’s very similar to a bubble factory.

I have a lot more to say … but leweb3 is taking my time, would be happy to follow-on, so if you are interested, just leave a comment it will make a great incentive to accelerate the production of insights !

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I’ve made my first excursion into second life a few weeks ago just before they passed the 1 million population milestone. This first experience was strange. Everything was about cash, selling, buying, spam, sex and sometimes Rock&Roll. It was a poor experience. I rpobably missed the thrill of the service but I am very sceptical. Here is a slideshow of this first visit :

PS: This post is an old I didn’t publish. I decided to publish it now to start my SL analysis, using my experience @ beenz. The sequel will come as fast as I can.

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