Why create a social network for virtual world users?
Pierluigi Casolari: The first reason is about interoperability. More and more people are managing multiple virtual worlds accounts, and more users are seeing the utility of “virtual world cross plaftorms” or “meta-aggregators” for virtual worlds users. The second reason is to create a new web-portal for virtual worlds. We started to work on this some months ago. Not all the internet behaviors are easily deployed within 3d interfaces. For example, gathering information is a process that is quite difficult in 3d environments, but at the same time it is quite trivial by browsing web pages. Following this and other ideas we have start to building a web 2.0 portal for all virtual world locations. Presently, only Second Life is supported, but we are actively working for expanding the list. The goal of the project is to give Koinup visitors a preview of what virtual worlds are, what the most popular hotspots are and where you could find your friends online. Doesn’t it miss the point? After al
