Will Metaplace or Blue Mars beat Second Life and make it obsolete?
- Are you insane? None stand a chance! (64%)
- It's too early to say, but in the long term, Blue Mars has an edge (25%)
- Blue Mars will beat Second Life, but not Metaplace (4%)
- Both will beat Second Life (3%)
- It's too early to say, but in the long term, Metaplace has an edge (3%)
- Metaplace will beat Second Life, but not Blue Mars (1%)
Total Votes: 142
Start Date: June 1, 2009 @ 12:34 am
End Date: No Expiry
Will OpenSim beat Linden Lab by the end of 2009 in features, performance, and reliability?
- Probably not, but it will be good enough to make it a solid alternative choice (34%)
- Very likely not, but it'll come close in some aspects (16%)
- It will remain a curiosity for programmers but never become mainstream (12%)
- Absolutely not! And it will never beat LL in *service* (10%)
- It will only beat LL in running costs (8%)
- It will beat LL in features (7%)
- The new management of Linden Lab will force the project to shut down over pending lawsuit charges and we'll never know the answer (7%)
- The OpenSim project will quickly fade and disappear because of lack of interest by the programmers (3%)
- It will beat LL in performance (2%)
- It will beat LL in reliability (0%)
Total Votes: 217
Start Date: February 19, 2009 @ 12:01 pm
End Date: No Expiry
What are the biggest issues affecting the decrease of content sales?
- The market is stagnated (the number of consumers doesn't increase, but supply does) (28%)
- The RL economy is a mess, so people are unwilling to spend in SL either (25%)
- Too many freebies (11%)
- Another reason not listed (9%)
- Irrational, emotional reasons (like people simply being unwilling to spend L$ for a while) (7%)
- Content creators are not business-savvy and don't know how to place their products (6%)
- Content creators have no more creativity; no innovative products have appeared (6%)
- Content is copied too easily (5%)
- The cost of advertising and promotion has climbed to stratospherical levels (3%)
Total Votes: 340
Start Date: October 18, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
End Date: No Expiry
What do you expect from Google Lively?
- Lively will never be a "serious" player in virtual 3D worlds, but might very quickly become the leader in "3D chatrooms embedded in Web pages" (33%)
- Lively will be added to the long gallery of failed Google projects and retired from Google's portfolio (17%)
- What is Lively? (15%)
- Lively will not evolve, but become like Google's Orkut: unnoticed and forgotten, but still around after years and years, aiming for the long tail (14%)
- Google just needs to tie Lively to Google Earth and allow SketchUp uploads to succeed (9%)
- Google has to evolve Lively a lot in order to make it a major player, and this will take years (9%)
- The current version will be the predominant type of "social 3D world" in a few years, since it's simple to use (3%)
Total Votes: 160
Start Date: July 16, 2008 @ 12:39 pm
End Date: No Expiry
Should we use a new name for the community of residents?
- Let's make an effort to start promoting a new name that reflects the community of users, and leave Second Life® as the name of the technology! (40%)
- As soon as OpenSim-based grids interoperate, "Second Life®" will be just one product on one grid, so the effort to change the name now is pointless. (28%)
- No, nobody would ever use it. Second Life® has too much visibility. (24%)
- I'm indifferent or have no suggestion on what's best for Our World. (4%)
- Maybe we could co-promote a different name, but continue to use Second Life® within Linden Lab® guidelines. (4%)
Total Votes: 25
Start Date: June 23, 2008 @ 6:37 pm
End Date: No Expiry
