{"id":2536,"date":"2009-03-13T17:56:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T21:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2010-05-12T08:39:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:39:12","slug":"experienced-points-housecall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2536","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Housecall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My work at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activeworlds.com\/\">Activeworlds<\/a> for the past 14 years has given me somewhat of an insider&#8217;s perspective on the online virtual worlds business, and in that time I&#8217;ve seen a lot of them come and go.  There, The Palace, Worlds Chat, and a dozen others have leaped onto the stage with dreams of becoming the Google of 3D, and ended up becoming the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Webvan\">Webvan<\/a> of 3D. (Second Life is still in business, though. Good for them.) It&#8217;s killing me to see Sony come onto the scene and make all those same mistakes again, and I thought I&#8217;d offer them  a couple of million dollars worth of free advice.  <a href=\" http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/editorials\/experienced-points\/5847-Housecall\">Hopefully this makes for an interesting read<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My work at Activeworlds for the past 14 years has given me somewhat of an insider&#8217;s perspective on the online virtual worlds business, and in that time I&#8217;ve seen a lot of them come and go. There, The Palace, Worlds Chat, and a dozen others have leaped onto the stage with dreams of becoming the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[155,165],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-experienced-points","tag-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}