Comments on: Why Your Avatar Matters: Being 3D in Web 2.0 http://microscopiq.com/2007/03/why-your-avatar-matters/ art • games • change Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:07:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jason http://microscopiq.com/2007/03/why-your-avatar-matters/#comment-3768 Jason Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:13:58 +0000 http://microscopiq.com/2007/03/why-your-avatar-matters/#comment-3768 I like how you put that: "getting a handle on the person." It does seem like there's just a feeling once you get to know someone that makes you comfortable dealing with them. And that feeling is often completely missing when folks are remote, in a different time zone, and all the rest. I certainly hope to make some progress towards understanding how Second Life might help address that problem. We'll see how far I get. :-) I like how you put that: “getting a handle on the person.” It does seem like there’s just a feeling once you get to know someone that makes you comfortable dealing with them. And that feeling is often completely missing when folks are remote, in a different time zone, and all the rest.

I certainly hope to make some progress towards understanding how Second Life might help address that problem. We’ll see how far I get. :-)

]]> By: Aparna Pappu http://microscopiq.com/2007/03/why-your-avatar-matters/#comment-3759 Aparna Pappu Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:07:05 +0000 http://microscopiq.com/2007/03/why-your-avatar-matters/#comment-3759 fascinating. i had no idea you were working on second life. anything that gets lurkers to 'delurk' as you put it sounds good to me. i think one of the frustrating things to me about working with people in a different country (a fact that is increasingly common in all software projects) was that i didn't have a handle on this person. and if you're doing what i think you're doing then that problem will be solved. our team would have worked so much better if we had 'delurked' as it were. fascinating. i had no idea you were working on second life. anything that gets lurkers to ‘delurk’ as you put it sounds good to me. i think one of the frustrating things to me about working with people in a different country (a fact that is increasingly common in all software projects) was that i didn’t have a handle on this person. and if you’re doing what i think you’re doing then that problem will be solved. our team would have worked so much better if we had ‘delurked’ as it were.

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