Comments on: Roll on 2009!

By: Second Life 2.0(10) – Predictions! - Metaversally Speaking..

Second Life 2.0(10) – Predictions! - Metaversally Speaking.. — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:03:51 +0000

[...] a year ago, I made a bunch of predictions about where Second Life would be now, so I’ll kick off reviewing how those [...]

By: Ashleigh Dickins

Ashleigh Dickins — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:15:53 +0000

#3 is semi already true. RL TV Show Gossip Girl used their Second Life sims and Avatars this past summer to film machinima webisodes revolving around the secondary characters on the show. Not much of a jump from there to seeing them on the TV.

By: Prokofy

Prokofy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:15:29 +0000

LL already has an inworld database that allows you to search not by store, but by key words and product names. It’s called “search places” and “search all”.

Traffic is enormously useful in then sorting the results of those searches.

Try it, Prad, with an open mind, unbiased by all the hysteria around camping, the first few spots that are always camped or botted, etc. Just try search for 20 words of interest to you, and I guarantee you that you will find:

o that some categories have no camped spots at all, or that if they do, they are the obvious first one and you can skip down and see the merited results

o that when you do see merited results, it will be notable, i.e. a furniture store with a non-camped 5000 or 2000 traffic, versus one with 0 or 200, that may turn out to either in fact be closed or moved or in fact not worth visiting.

Again, try this, rather than spouting, and see what I mean. Try all kinds of terms, whether “jacuzzi” or “little black dress” or “men’s hair” or “sword” or “prefab”.

Search all turns up much more superfluous junk than search/places. Search/places with traffic is responsible for most inworld sales. If/when the Lindens monkey with traffic and take it out of these returns, they will be shocked at how much damage it does, and may even put it back. Nothing else makes up for it. Taking out “popular places” has helped fix the problem; requiring bot accounts to be paid accounts, or making them eligible for abuse reports based on resource drains especially on the mainland will start to clean up that problem.

I don’t allow bots or traffic gimmicks on any of my rentals. But I know that I and my customers and everyone else in SL in business who isn’t in a tiny boutique niche relying soley on word of mouth or hugely expensive classifieds gets their sales from search/places plus traffic.

By: Maryna Wind

Maryna Wind — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:12:48 +0000

I have a prediction: Prad Prathivi’s Blog will be the most popular on the blogsphere, well… it is not really a prediction though…it is a fact! I love your style of writing! Contradictions, jokes, thoughts, and especially all those lists, your posts are like guides, Commandments of Second Life *smiles

By: M Linden

M Linden — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:21:39 +0000

Prad, keep blogging! You cover great topics – with insight, an edge and a sense of humor. I like your predictions — especially 1, 5 and aspects of 10. Happy New Year!

By: Tesa Jewell

Tesa Jewell — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:41:19 +0000

Once again Landsend has said my words perfectly. I just recently found your blog as well, and I enjoy reading it so much. I love your views, the way you express them, your sarcasm and humor. You say what we want to say, as I have said before, so I am very glad this person has changed your mind about blogging. Also, yes take it to a once a week thing, give yourself some time to do the other stuff you want to do, we can handle that

By: Zippora Zabelin

Zippora Zabelin — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:19:21 +0000

Pfew… no daily updates anymore I could nearly keep track of your blog since I’ve found it about a month ago. I think keeping up the quality is more important than keeping up the quantity of posts and therefore I’m happy with your decision to continue (at least until December 2009 to write a review of your predictions, don’t you think?)

By: Vint

Vint — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:53:44 +0000

10. > You’re dreaming out loud, are you? I believe the blogs for 10% of the residents are already a huge ‘guide’. The others… well, they’ll never care and just feed what LL gives them? (eg. You should see the difference a pick in ‘showcase’ by LL makes for Greenies traffic.)

By: Raul Crimson

Raul Crimson — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:41:51 +0000

I’m really happy you decide to continue blogging even not in a daily base. This blog has become something i enjoy to check.

About the predictions, i think most are quite possible, even i think Google will finally buy SL someday. Possibly the two predictions i find the biggest reasons to worry in 8 and 9. Teen grid is full of creative people but the way LL is ruling it is well, confusing at least. Creators are someway the “soul” of SL, are the ones who make this look good, and they are not protected enough, i just hope someone creates a script that makes Copybot users have a big nose or something.

By: Landsend Korobase

Landsend Korobase — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:25:29 +0000

Even if you only posted an entry once a week, you’d still be the best blog on Second Life matters as far as I’m concerned. In my wanderings, no one else has the humour, insights, and finger on the pulse that you do. I’d understand if you’d reached the decision that you simply didn’t have the time for blogging anymore (god knows you do a lot to enhance the Second Life experience for so many people, in so many ways), but I would have had to smack you round a bit if you’d dropped this project.