Karim R. Lakhani’s Infrequent Musings

Oh man just when I thought this Web 2 OH thing was taking off, in comes Clay Shirky to bring in a dose of reality:

I suspect Second Life is largely a “Try Me” virus, where reports of a strange and wonderful new thing draw the masses to log in and try it, but whose ability to retain anything but a fraction of those users is limited. The pattern of a Try Me virus is a rapid spread of first time users, most of whom drop out quickly, with most of the dropouts becoming immune to later use. Pointcast was a Try Me virus, as was LambdaMOO, the experiment that Second Life most closely resembles.

Comparing it to Pointcast is devastating.  Read more about it here.

So I have been working with Lars Bo for the past week. Today I got lazy in terms of finding a journal article which is hiding somewhere in my messy office. Lars said - “Why don’t you Google your office?” I said YES!!! Great idea!

Please I need a Google for my office!

Lars and I are willing to offer a lot of fame to the person who can solve this problem!

Funny