Facebook as Second Life
“The play is simple; Facebook seeks to become a starting point for its users web experience. In essence, it is solving the ‘what’s next’ problem by providing users a potentially endless set of experiences to encounter within the Facebook framework … In a sense, this [the new Facebook Platform] is Second Life applied to Facebook; Second Life is only as interesting as the environments developed within – Facebook is no different.”
Personally I’m not so sure about the Second Life analogy, but it’s an interesting idea. From the Unit Structures blog, here.
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