Tags: Business, Collapsing Geography, Metaverse, Politics, Social Media
2008
APOC Week 10, Part 1
So, Apoc Week 9 (part 2) is still waiting on some slide issues, so time to skip ahead to week 10. This week focused on regulatory issues around virtual worlds:
We also had Todd Rosenberg from Userplane give a talk on user acquisition and retention. Userplane provides flash chat and video to community sites and currently is used in over 200,000 sites. His talk very much reinforced topics we’ve been hitting all year:
- start with niche communities
- usability trumps everything else
- make barriers to entry low
Time to run for my plane home!