{"id":1372,"date":"2007-08-23T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2007-08-27T13:59:49","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T17:59:49","slug":"wu-on-worlds-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"Wu on Worlds In Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a decent article\/interview with Charles River Ventures representative Susan Wu over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsinmotion.biz\/2007\/08\/q_a_susan_wu_on_dichotomous_wo.php\">on the Worlds In Motion website (Link)<\/a>. Here are a few excerpts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The distinction between what Facebook and an MMO looks like is going to disappear,&#8221; Wu says. &#8220;All social interaction online will be driven by game mechanics.<br \/>\n&#8230;<!--more--><br \/>\nThere are all these Web 2.0 conferences, and Web entrepreneurs basically talking amongst themselves in this insular environment, and I see the same thing in the gaming industry, which has always been a cottage industry and very segregated. I see so many different parallels going on in these two communities<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;One of the hallmarks of a successful Web company is &#8212; if you look at the track record of the most successful companies that have stayed independent and sustainable, like eBay, Google or Amazon &#8212; they have built platforms [which can] foster entrepreneurs. There are ecosystems that spawn innovation from the community members themselves, and Facebook is falling in with that too, with the new platform launch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just say that I see other parallels; most notably in the serious games arena and Product Lifecycle Management applications.<\/p>\n<p>Also, while I agree Facebook has created its own (walled garden) ecosystem which is helping to spawn new applications\/widgets (much as MySpace did), I don&#8217;t equate Facebook with eBay, Google or Amazon. Those companies still serve pretty much the same audience to whom they originally were targeted. Facebook doesn&#8217;t. I consider that a rather big deal considering what Facebook provides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a decent article\/interview with Charles River Ventures representative Susan Wu over on the Worlds In Motion website (Link). Here are a few excerpts: &#8220;The distinction between what Facebook and an MMO looks like is going to disappear,&#8221; Wu says. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1372\">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-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","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=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}