{"id":1127,"date":"2006-12-21T23:00:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T04:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2006-12-25T08:39:33","modified_gmt":"2006-12-25T13:39:33","slug":"cnet-feels-the-love-kinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"C|Net Feels the Love&#8230; Kinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"310\" height=\"255\" hspace=\"40\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ExXltE_JVgs\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ExXltE_JVgs\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"310\" height=\"255\" hspace=\"40\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>A few days back while posting that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1123\">long list of links<\/a> and visiting those sites, I left a couple of comments on the brandsizzle&#8217;s blog post discussing Second Life, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandsizzle.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/a_second_look_a.html\">&#8220;Trends: Second Life et al &#8212;The Future of the Internet?&#8221; (Link)<\/a>. One issue I&#8217;ve previously discussed and which I raised on brandsizzle is &#8220;griefing&#8221;; in regards to the post and my point regarding it: that there is a distinct difference between creating what I call &#8220;3D commercials&#8221; in heavily-controlled virtual spaces like videogames, and attempting to place a marketing message inside a relatively untamed space like <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\">Second Life<\/a>. The above video &#8211; which I guess could be called Not Safe For Work except it&#8217;s really too childish to be offensive &#8211; is the kind of thing about which I&#8217;m talking.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nRegardless of whether Second Life is the &#8220;Future of the Internet&#8221; or not, it&#8217;s <em>much<\/em> closer than some of the stuff the marketing community is lumping in with it when they talk about advertising inside 3D virtual worlds\/the future internet. None of those other big virtual worlds allow{ed} users to create content <em>inside<\/em> the virtual space in the interactive manner permitted inside SL. It&#8217;s that kind of uncontrolled freedom that truly differentiates the passive television era from the 3D internet of the future.<\/p>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/12\/21\/second_life_griefers.html\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days back while posting that long list of links and visiting those sites, I left a couple of comments on the brandsizzle&#8217;s blog post discussing Second Life, &#8220;Trends: Second Life et al &#8212;The Future of the Internet?&#8221; (Link). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1127\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}