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MyMiniLifeMay 20th, 2007 |
Over at TechCrunch there’s an article about MyMiniLife. In a nutshell, it’s a competitor to CyWorld or Habbo, with social network aspects and virtual apartments. The client runs in Flash, so you can embed it inside any site: your MySpace profile, Yahoo!, whatever. The look of it is very Sims-like. You use virtual currency to purchase stuff to decorate your house with. It’s put together by a bunch of students who seem to have gotten together at U Illinois Urbana Champaign, though now one of them is a grad student at UCLA. And they’ve been around since the middle of last year, running along quite quietly.
The idea of virtual worlds as essentially widgets is one that seems to be gaining currency, and it’s the opposite from the vision of an all-encompassing immersive metaverse. Rather than the web getting sucked into textures on a 3d wall, in this model it’s about the spaces being sucked into the Web we use today. Instead of the virtual world being the primary interface, it’s a secondary interface, and web browsing remains the primary way you interact.
I expect to keep an eye on MyMiniLife; right now, it looks like the interaction is basically chat, which is an increasingly crowded space. Of course, since it is Flash, you can embed streaming MP3s on objects, Flash games, or video quite easily. I would expect every single social network to have a virtual apartment system in the next year or two. These guys are likely to get drowned in offers of seed capital now that Mike Arrington has given them some coverage.
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05/21 04:34 What are you doing with the net? (Feedster on: secondlife) 05/21 04:18 MyMiniLife (Feedster on: metaverse) 05/21 04:09 But I wish BMW would go ahead and acquire Alpina and apply their philosophy to the M line so that I might actually want to own (Feedster on: second life)
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