John Swords, of Electric Sheep, posted a fun and informative map he'd created outlining the various social and virtual worlds as regions. He posted this map as a photo on the Virtual Worlds Conference internal networking site. Since that isn't available to everyone, he kindly offered one that is upon request.
Very funny. My favorite areas are the tiny peninsula dubbed "Attractive MySpace pages" out of the huge MySpace nation, the Viral Straits, the Blogipelago (haha!), and the warning that "HERE BE Anthropomorphic Dragons."
I thought it was interesting how small the kingdom of Facebook, though not small by itself, is in comparsion to MySpace's Empire. John Swords stated that he tried to make the relative size of these "nations" corresponding to numbers of users according to real data. I'd heard that Facebook was kicking butt in this area so I guess the success is not so much overall but relative to the time that it has been in existence.
Very funny. My favorite areas are the tiny peninsula dubbed "Attractive MySpace pages" out of the huge MySpace nation, the Viral Straits, the Blogipelago (haha!), and the warning that "HERE BE Anthropomorphic Dragons."
I thought it was interesting how small the kingdom of Facebook, though not small by itself, is in comparsion to MySpace's Empire. John Swords stated that he tried to make the relative size of these "nations" corresponding to numbers of users according to real data. I'd heard that Facebook was kicking butt in this area so I guess the success is not so much overall but relative to the time that it has been in existence.
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