World of War Craft
When i heard of Edward Castronova's Synthetic Worlds, i remembered skimming through Howard Rheingold's The Virtual Community in the late '90s.
Its surprising how quickly (or slowly?) have we reached the world of MySpace, YouTube and SecondLife (and WordPress, ,WikiPedia, World of Warcraft) from where we were when The Virtual Community was first published.
While SecondLife reached almost 800,000 at the end of Sept 2006, WoW currently has 7mn subscribers.
Castronova's interview to BW is here.
See Wikipedia profiles of Linden Lab's Philip Rosedale and Blizzard's World of Wardcraft.
The WorldOfWarcraft Flickr stream is here.
PS:
The wow in this wowstreet, doesn't have any relation to the other WoW btw.
Its surprising how quickly (or slowly?) have we reached the world of MySpace, YouTube and SecondLife (and WordPress, ,WikiPedia, World of Warcraft) from where we were when The Virtual Community was first published.
While SecondLife reached almost 800,000 at the end of Sept 2006, WoW currently has 7mn subscribers.
Castronova's interview to BW is here.
See Wikipedia profiles of Linden Lab's Philip Rosedale and Blizzard's World of Wardcraft.
The WorldOfWarcraft Flickr stream is here.
PS:
The wow in this wowstreet, doesn't have any relation to the other WoW btw.
posted by g.e. at 11:18 PM
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