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	<title>Comments on: A Google Metaverse?</title>
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		<link>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-6877</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-6454</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-6454</guid>
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		<title>By: Traveller in India</title>
		<link>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-5575</link>
		<author>Traveller in India</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-5575</guid>
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		<title>By: datant</title>
		<link>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-5307</link>
		<author>datant</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-5307</guid>
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		<title>By: top certifications</title>
		<link>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-4902</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-4902</guid>
		<description>i agreed, really a massive tool by google. A great technology and informative resource i must say.</description>
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		<title>By: Gwyneth Llewelyn</title>
		<link>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-4691</link>
		<author>Gwyneth Llewelyn</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-4691</guid>
		<description>A year has passed since that post. Google still hasn't revealed what they're been working on.

Technologically, they have all key components: 3D technology (Google Earth), virtual building technology (SketchUp), and a wholly distributed world-wide grid with close to a million servers. They just need avatars, which are not terribly hard to create.

So what are they waiting for? I think that they're looking into the business model. As described on those posts, this model would never make any money — it would just be something "cute", and possibly even heavilly used, but not generate a revenue stream for Google.

The idea that companies would pay Google to be able to have their virtual headquarters, closely modeled after their real ones, has lots of conceptual issues. Technically it's possible, but... what if Apple decides to create a virtual Apple Shop on top of the Microsoft HQ, and pays Google for that? Who will decide where you can drop your virtual presence on Google Earth? Google themselves? So would Google become a huge organsiation of lawyers looking through all the claims of "owning" a bit of the virtual world because they can prove they own the corresponding plot on the real one, too? Or would they be like DNS — "first come, first get" and sort it out on court? Would Google really enjoy a rain of lawsuits while companies outbid each other to occupy virtual space that has no relation to where they are in real life? But if the place you are becomes irrelevant, what possible benefit does a company get from renting virtual space from Google — compared to getting it in Second Life, where virtual location is &lt;i&gt;not tied&lt;/i&gt; to the real location? The Web doesn't "demand" real location either, eg. you can be a NYC company hosting in LA — or in Russia — and that doesn't matter...

So I'm sure that Google is figuring out the tricky legal implications first, and how to generate some revenue from that too, before committing to anything. A friend of mine who is a manager at Google told me that they're "baffled" at the excitement about virtual worlds (and their 50 million users) and have no clue on how to make money out of them.

Then again, that never stopped Google from investing in "cute" technology :) Only time will tell...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A year has passed since that post. Google still hasn&#8217;t revealed what they&#8217;re been working on.</p>
<p>Technologically, they have all key components: 3D technology (Google Earth), virtual building technology (SketchUp), and a wholly distributed world-wide grid with close to a million servers. They just need avatars, which are not terribly hard to create.</p>
<p>So what are they waiting for? I think that they&#8217;re looking into the business model. As described on those posts, this model would never make any money — it would just be something &#8220;cute&#8221;, and possibly even heavilly used, but not generate a revenue stream for Google.</p>
<p>The idea that companies would pay Google to be able to have their virtual headquarters, closely modeled after their real ones, has lots of conceptual issues. Technically it&#8217;s possible, but&#8230; what if Apple decides to create a virtual Apple Shop on top of the Microsoft HQ, and pays Google for that? Who will decide where you can drop your virtual presence on Google Earth? Google themselves? So would Google become a huge organsiation of lawyers looking through all the claims of &#8220;owning&#8221; a bit of the virtual world because they can prove they own the corresponding plot on the real one, too? Or would they be like DNS — &#8220;first come, first get&#8221; and sort it out on court? Would Google really enjoy a rain of lawsuits while companies outbid each other to occupy virtual space that has no relation to where they are in real life? But if the place you are becomes irrelevant, what possible benefit does a company get from renting virtual space from Google — compared to getting it in Second Life, where virtual location is <i>not tied</i> to the real location? The Web doesn&#8217;t &#8220;demand&#8221; real location either, eg. you can be a NYC company hosting in LA — or in Russia — and that doesn&#8217;t matter&#8230;</p>
<p>So I&#8217;m sure that Google is figuring out the tricky legal implications first, and how to generate some revenue from that too, before committing to anything. A friend of mine who is a manager at Google told me that they&#8217;re &#8220;baffled&#8221; at the excitement about virtual worlds (and their 50 million users) and have no clue on how to make money out of them.</p>
<p>Then again, that never stopped Google from investing in &#8220;cute&#8221; technology <img src='http://www.neomeme.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> Only time will tell&#8230;</p>
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		<link>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-4467</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-4121</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-4121</guid>
		<description>Very cool concept, but people really just want to navigate quickly. So unless they can come up with something that will let people do that, then the concept is totally worthless except for gamers maybe.</description>
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		<title>By: Jobst von Heintze</title>
		<link>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-1041</link>
		<author>Jobst von Heintze</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-1041</guid>
		<description>I think Google will experience the same fate as once the Roman Empire: they ruled the world for a time and then disappeared because of to much fragmentation. Same with Google: they started with Websearch before Web 2.0, now ruling this market but will experience a heavy backlash in this area soon (I wrote an article on this subject on my website - if you want to know why...). 

But as the Roman Empire once they hire even more people to do even more things beside their main businesses - for instance creating a 3D metaverse. The 3D hype came and went several times before, as did Video on the Web, Mobile, e-Commerce search etc.

Google tries to rule it all but should learn lessons from history.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Google will experience the same fate as once the Roman Empire: they ruled the world for a time and then disappeared because of to much fragmentation. Same with Google: they started with Websearch before Web 2.0, now ruling this market but will experience a heavy backlash in this area soon (I wrote an article on this subject on my website - if you want to know why&#8230;). </p>
<p>But as the Roman Empire once they hire even more people to do even more things beside their main businesses - for instance creating a 3D metaverse. The 3D hype came and went several times before, as did Video on the Web, Mobile, e-Commerce search etc.</p>
<p>Google tries to rule it all but should learn lessons from history.</p>
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		<title>By: engtech</title>
		<link>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-286</link>
		<author>engtech</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.neomeme.net/2007/01/29/a-google-metaverse/#comment-286</guid>
		<description>What's funny about this virtual Internet stuff is I remember being excited in the same way with VRML in '93.

And then disappointed.

It's too bad they can't tie in the flickr geotagged photos. Unless they buy Yahoo :)

Microsoft has some crazy app that can take multiple photos of the same place and generate something (3d image?) off of it. I think it was buzzing around last November.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What&#8217;s funny about this virtual Internet stuff is I remember being excited in the same way with VRML in &#8216;93.</p>
<p>And then disappointed.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s too bad they can&#8217;t tie in the flickr geotagged photos. Unless they buy Yahoo <img src='http://www.neomeme.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Microsoft has some crazy app that can take multiple photos of the same place and generate something (3d image?) off of it. I think it was buzzing around last November.</p>
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