21 March 2006 · Melbourne
GDAY WORLD #98!
On today’s show, Richard Giles and I talk about:
- Cam’s running the new Alpha of Firefox 2.0 – no biggie
- Jeffrey Han and the Minority Report
- Mark Cuban – TV over internet
- Rich’s Flickr book is up on Flickr and Amazon
- The Office to air web-only episodes this summer
- Microsoft taking on Craiglist – Expo is a dynamic social listing service
- Michael Arrington has surprise lunch with Bill Gates
- People don’t want to pay money for content on their mobile phone
- Why EA’s Godfather game is going to suck
As always, our Intro / Outro music “D24″ courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker.
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Dude, I won’t be silenced! Either your doing some deal with MS, they are buying you out, you don’t want to be kept out of WMP 11 or they are about to sue your ass off!
Don’t worry, there will be a post (http://www.mollyzine.com).
Molly
During the cast, you mentioned Second Life/mafia mmorpg’s. There’s an interesting group called the sims mafia (website: http://www.thesimmafia.com/) and an article at the second life herald (http://www.alphavilleherald.com/archives/000306.html).
Hey dudes…just a Second Life-related comment. There ARE, in fact, already “mafias” in Second Life; it’s a pretty popular subculture in several of the social MMORPGs like Second Life, There, and The Sims Online. They’re pretty childish for the most part (partially b/c a lot of them are probably, um, children), and they do indeed run extortion rackets, have gang wars, etc. (Extortion and protection is mainly via threatening “griefing”-style attacks where they disrupt your play as a group. And yeah, they get in trouble for it.)
Some of their antics are fairly amusing, though…they can get pretty into it. The Second Life Herald keeps track of mob doings pretty well: Mafias, gangs, and virtual government posts
wicked Ken! Thanks for filling us in!
Plenty of big surly guys in my town, Cam.
Mike why do you say that with such excitement?
Fughedaboudit! I am not a kid, but yes most Mafia’s are kiddie groups. Most Mafia’s are merely social clubs. Wannabe’s who just hang out or go around terrorizing people. My group is the ONLY group that keeps it real and is not just a “social club.” I didn’t make the cover of CNN Technology for running a “kiddie Mafia.”
Jeremy Chase
aka Marsellus Wallace (Second Life)
Founder/Boss, The Sim Mafia
http://www.thesimmafia.com
One last comment… You asked the question can you kill people in Second Life or extort people?? Yes you can. In fact, I am one of the few players that can literally whack someone. The game has no death, but that’s why I am infamous. I figured out ways around that lame shit. See my services section and if you want more details, e-mail me.
Jeremy Chase
aka Marsellus Wallace (Second Life)
Founder/Boss, The Sim Mafia
http://www.thesimmafia.com