Can Outback Online Follow Its Own Rules?
Rand Leeb-du Toit is the man behind Outback Online and its hotly awaited “user-generated spaces.” A few days back, in the wake of Cristiano’s open letter to Linden Lab, makers of the virtual world of Second Life, Rand posted his three virtual-world rules:
1. build right from the start — by which he means not “build immediately” but “build correctly from the ground up”
2. community first — “Being useful to a community beats exciting them with new whizzbangery.”
3. integrate — “Virtual world developers need to . . . integrate with what their users are already doing.”
All seem sensible, though they’re not that much of a stretch. We’ll see whether Outback can deliver on the same points. Hopefully I’ll be able to bring you some more news on that in the near future. Outback is still running very quietly, but that hasn’t stopped them from being one of the most interesting metaversal experiments in development. I’m looking forward to seeing more. Also, go wish Rand a happy birthday.
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Hahah… I hope he doesn’t run out of money and make a rash decision in order to save the company.
I hope runs out of rash decisions and makes some money to save the company.
How, exactly, are they “interesting?”
So far they seem intersting in the same sense that vaporware is interesting.