With a ton of users being granted access to Google Wave, and Wave suggesting the installation of Chrome Frame, there’s been a bit of griping from Microsoft (and others, but I suspect mostly Microsoft) about not liking the ability for the content to choose the browser agent. I can understand why folks would be irked by this, I really can. It messes with their software.
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Predicting the Metaplace Explosion
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Note: Since the time of this post, Metaplace has been shut down, in favor of a much less ambitious (in my opinion) Facebook Games platform. I still think that given enough time and tuning, Metaplace could have been huge. We’ll never know.
Some people are overly enthusiastic about Metaplace’s potential: MPMillionaire, for example, thinks it’s the next Google. It’s not the next Google, that comparison doesn’t really make sense. Google is about data, and MP is about experience and immersion.
What is it? It’s the content, it’s the browser, it’s the server. It’s another way of viewing the web. It’s what VRML tried to be, it’s what big metacontent apps like Second Life wish they were. It’s a supplement to how you experience an enormous wealth of information.
What Metaplace is, I think, is quite possibly the most accessible rich multiplayer experience available. My understanding is that shortly after open beta it’ll be embeddable in any site. This means you can have your own personal MMO. You can have virtual locations that people can walk through. You can do pretty much anything with a virtual world, then embed a window into that world on any website.
