Hypercommunities
Yesterday our editor posted an article introducing the concept of Hypercommunity and elaborated some arguments and stuff on its advantages and left the door open for those who would want to comment on the rest of items for a complete SWOT analysis. That is, she stated the advantages and Strengths an left the Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats to be discussed by some one else. Well I took the glove of the challange and went out to give the idea a try, a test fly by exposing its concepts to people I could randomly meet in some Imvu room at any odd hour of the day.
Imagine HyperCommunities Architecture
A Graphic Brainstorming:
Publlic Rooms Condo
Owners share Pathes and Resources
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Rooms Connected by a Teleport
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Room World Condo
Rooms World Condo Connected by a Teleport
and other dimensional orbits
(age-country-others)
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People don't trust new things because they are unusual.
The Portal Option in the new version of Imvu Client Toolbox provides an excellent tool to install shortcuts from one room to another. Of course it will be trusted by persons who know about the options and its instalation or by those who agree upon having such a connection between the rooms they own. But when you want to show other people how it works, and ask them to look for the blue point they say "I got it!" then when you ask them to click on it they go like "Sorry, I can't see any point".
ImvuClient Toolbox Portal Option
In ToolBoox and As Installed
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Are they just idiot and ignorant?
Of course not. Quite the opposite, they are smart persons who are aware of many tricks, traps and scams that may take the form of a link, spot or button to click on. Politely, they will be reluctant to go click, will reject the option and will invent an odd excuse for not accepting it. Usually, they will also leave very soon. It is an unfortunate situation, a blind lock.
For people not knowing about all this mechanisms, Portal is not the only way to skip passing through the ChatRoom Menu to reach a given room. You may also write the physical link on the command line where text is typed. These room links also produce some fear in persons who don't know the option is available. The ordinary Imvu user is quite illiterate on Imvu features in fact.
Outlook and Prospects
For the time being, we will be dealing with rooms as we know them with limited capacity of usually no more than 10 persons and having to navigate the option tree from braches to subbranches and backwards to the trunk ( ChatRoom Option) and skip innovations at a collective level.
However, in the realm of small groups of users who can undertake the effort to do some reasearch on their own and explore new situations and providing solid suggestions to improve Imvu both at functional as in code levels, the search for new models of interaction will be a permanent quest.
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For the time being, we will be dealing with rooms as we know them with limited capacity of usually no more than 10 persons and having to navigate the option tree from braches to subbranches and backwards to the trunk ( ChatRoom Option) and skip innovations at a collective level.
However, in the realm of small groups of users who can undertake the effort to do some reasearch on their own and explore new situations and providing solid suggestions to improve Imvu both at functional as in code levels, the search for new models of interaction will be a permanent quest.
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