Overcoming the Second Bubble

I'm finally up from a long downtime. It was bad, my hard drive was kinda slow, 3,200rpm slow or some bullshit like that. I wasn't to highly impressed, but I made due. I went out and got myself a new Western Digital SATA2 drive, 250GB, 3ms seek time, 300MB/s, 16MB Cache; so all-around it's an upgrade, or a quantum leap?

I'm watching this copybot thing, and I'm actually enjoying a similarity occurring on the Internet. Right now, there is a lawsuit pending against Google, for YouTube and it's very own video hosting service, Google Video. I skimmed across the article but I had a small chuckle when I read the line "...there is a problem discovering who owns what, and what video that may be..." because it's the same thing. The infinity of the Internet allows us to receive unlimited demand. People in Second Life need to start asking themselves if they are even going to be able to secure anything they do anymore? Sure, no-one can ever take away the fact that you made it, so build a business around that.

When I think of the other companies out there, in retrospect, they seem to bring the wrong value to Second Life. Take MillionsOfUs as an example, they brought the Scion into SL for Toyota, and now anyone can have a copy-for free! (sans scripts, sorry kids) In my honest opinion they should have given the cars away for free, and let the power of Toyota's name reflect on that. Then build services for car owners.

I can't believe I have two large profile meetings in the next two days. These are small by comparison of the large bursting that's begining. I'm excited, and ready for the ride. Are you?

.fox