But I’ll repeat: who is gaining access to the SL log-on? Surely your API, even if a third-party API on the i-phone, is what is gaining access to my password and log-on? Yes or no? And if this is now “Apple’s” — what does that say about you, so ready to turn over passwords to Apple, and about Apple? I’d like to hear the mechanics precisely.

And I notice how neatly you ducked the issue of the data scrape and marketing lol.

http://www.blogula-rasa.com/2008/09/15/ajaxlife-second-life-for-iphone-good-enough-for-me/

Prok,
Really, now. Prok, the real reason nobody includes you in their schemes to make millions of bucks off web 3.0 is:

a) you refuse to talk off the record
b) you refuse to talk off the record
c) toxoplasmosis triggered paranoid schitzophrenia is a preexisting condition not covered by anybody’s HMO plan and you’d jack up employee insurance rates.
d) you are batshit crazy from sticking your head in the kremlin microwave too many times trying to schmooze russian thugs into letting you translate their memoirs, badly.

Mooty,
While I am indeed a transhumanist and in favor of all the great futuristic technologies coming down the pike, including genetic engineering, the only thing that makes me less in favor of that particular technology MORE than the idea of some basement dwelling losers modifying their genomes to grow hair all over their bodies like furry animals, is the idea some other basement dwelling weeaboos will use the same technologies to make themselves look Japanese…

Uri,
While Sparkle is great for increasing connectiveness, I do wonder when we’ll see the first highway fatality cause some idiot is busy texting cybersex with their SL partner while driving.

if only some of that shit could be done without making your users run around as a naked fox or a cloud or whatever soup-of-the-day Web 2.0 internet character avatar metaverse av some guy in an office decides will appeal the best to users of a application whose only genre success story is Habbo Hotel, you stupid gullible morons. how do “companies” like this manage to “fund themselves”? it’s like a guy with a compulsive urge to go run on train tracks living until he’s 90.

i like their website too,

“Genkii is:

* Outspoken
* Forward-thinking
* Willing to experiment
* Excited about the possibilities

Genkii is not:

* Shy
* Tied to tradition
* Closed-minded
* Scared of the future”

thanks for the OKcupid profile, I’ll be sure to throw my money at you instead of all the other faux-futurists promising whatever looked trendy in 2001 over the fact you get “excited” over “possibilities”. Genkii is not: financially solvent, blessed with any talent, going to ever exceed the amazingly steep hurdle of releasing an application on the iPhone, something that a twelve year old with a copy of the SDK could do. wait a second, these people have anime avatars on their about page.

“ken brady”, CEO, is looking very insightful in his sketch, probably thinking of how detailed, interactive yiffing can be executed on the iPhone despite its technical limitations. “He is one of approximately six foreigners in Japan who has not taught English.”, it says, as if having a picture of you looking like an anime villain and discussing how all your past jobs involved drinking lots of beer is somehow less pathetic than all those people teaching English to middle schoolers.

“Yuki Saeki”, CCO, is managing to be both ethnically Asian and hilariously Orientalist, stating that she is a “visual artist with a science education. It’s part of the dichotomy of being a creative person in Asia”. Yeah, it’s not often people elsewhere get biology degrees, can’t find jobs, then resort to entering the wide world of “realiz[ing] client visions” in manufactured market segments, only in The Great Other Land where everyone is Confucian and has a samurai sword and shit that that happens.

“Jeff Ames”, CTO, is pretty much N3X15 from the PN so I think the joke has already been made elsewhere, the joke being every year of their lives.

“Adam Johnson”, “COO”, finally, is pretty much everyone who posts on Slashdot. “He has been called a pioneer of open source virtual worlds, and he often ponders what that means”, the page says, as if I’m at all interested in whether he is pondering or not, or there could be some clarification there as to whether the “COO” of a 5 person iPhone application developer team has any actual credentials he’d like to share with me other than someone told him on Digg he was good with those internet thingies.

the sad part about this is that it’s echoed by every single little startup ever trying to be trendy, except unlike the traditional big-media outlets that just do it to try to get more market share these people actually believe it. welcome to the internet, gentlemen, we’re all fucked.

Oh one thing the article didn’t point out is that when you use Sparkle, you do have a physical presence in world as a little cloud. So, for example, I can log in at a location and TP someone there and then they can talk to my little cloud. Does this make a difference? Not really but it is sort of cool.

I think you’re just mad at me for arguing with you on Twitter regarding video game violence.