Interoperability for social software?
October 26th, 2006 by Wendy McAuliffe
Mike Butcher, co-editor of Techcrunch.com, has today made an interesting post about the future for open source social software, which would create interoperability between MySpace, Second Life and blogs etc.
As the phenomenon of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) and virtual worlds increases, the open source debate is bound to escalate, as it did with instant messaging. Linden Labs has already said that it plans to open up Second Life, while maintaining control of the brand.
Interoperability would create the ability for users to move their avatars and personas across different virtual worlds. I can’t comment on the technical requirements for this to be possible, but it certainly seems in line with the trend that is taking place now.
In many ways, quite a scary proposition when you think about where this leaves our real life personas, but also inevitable.
