Comments on: Hollywood Reporter: CEO R. Steiger Leading Entertainment Industry into Future http://millionsofus.com/blog/2007/11/26/hollywood-reporter-ceo-r-steiger-leading-entertainment-industry-into-future/ Virtual Worlds. Real Brands Tue, 7 Oct 2008 08:26:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Mitch Olson http://millionsofus.com/blog/2007/11/26/hollywood-reporter-ceo-r-steiger-leading-entertainment-industry-into-future/#comment-72328 Mitch Olson Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:44:16 +0000 http://millionsofus.com/blog/archives/412#comment-72328 quote: "Somewhere in the not-too-distant future, there‚Äôs going to be a junction point between social networking and virtual worlds" Couldn't agree with you more. We haven't really seen anything like this on the web yet. Obviously PS3 Home is Sony's console play to this inevitability. Also I'd add that the other obvious cohort in this social networking/virtual world convergence is casual gaming. Products to keep an eye on in 2008 in this space include Conduit Labs upcoming product, Three Rings Whirled, Raph Kosters Metaplace (possibly - not sure how much it will feature sn), and our own soon-to-be-released SmallWorlds. You can check out an alpha screenshot of SmallWorlds at http://www.smallworlds.com/img/interface2_room.jpg Mitch Olson CEO SmallWorlds.com quote: “Somewhere in the not-too-distant future, there‚Äôs going to be a junction point between social networking and virtual worlds”

Couldn’t agree with you more. We haven’t really seen anything like this on the web yet. Obviously PS3 Home is Sony’s console play to this inevitability.

Also I’d add that the other obvious cohort in this social networking/virtual world convergence is casual gaming.

Products to keep an eye on in 2008 in this space include Conduit Labs upcoming product, Three Rings Whirled, Raph Kosters Metaplace (possibly - not sure how much it will feature sn), and our own soon-to-be-released SmallWorlds. You can check out an alpha screenshot of SmallWorlds at http://www.smallworlds.com/img/interface2_room.jpg

Mitch Olson
CEO
SmallWorlds.com

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