The Dream is Alive – metaplace.com

I’ll let game-design god Raph Koster do the talking:

This is the future of the internet: open-standard virtual environments. “Anything that you do on the web… just works in Metaplace, because we work the way the web does.”

Alpha application ends Monday. www.metaplace.com

Business 2.0

Kathy Sierra at The Creating Passionate Users blog writes about applying the Web 2.0 ethos to management style.

“My favorite example of the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 management is that Web 2.0 “geek community values” infuse many of these startups at the cellular level. Never has the notion of “community” meant so much to business, so it’s no surprise a Web 2.0 manager would think of employees as a community.”