Handful of Nothing

imagine yourself in a room with your VC investors trying to convincing them that your product is great:

“It’s just like second life, but with email!”

I know it maybe too hard for me to say but that sounds so dumb. Why?

Well, I understand the fact that with the success of second life it wouldn’t take long for other competitors to appear (in fact with the success of Habo, didn’t take long for second life to appear) but when you are competing to a champion, a leader, you must have something “else”. That “plus” that makes people die to use your service. Ok not die but you got the point. But now, we face this product that just sounds as funny as it’s ad video:

“one name spells excitement , one name entertainment, one name spells email, and that name is 3d-mail-box, have the adventure of your life, go where no email has gone before”

So, your difference with second life is that email are actually avatars? Thank you, but that’s just too much for a application UI. I can actually imagine myself having my laptop heating, and turning on the fans just reading email with actual 3D acceleration. No thanks again.