Saturday, March 29, 2008

whirled open beta

Whirled, Three Ring's latest project, is now in open beta! Whirled is a mix of flash games, flash 2.5D virtual worlds, user generated content, social networking, social media, and a marketplace. Although my poor Macbook Air can't play all the games, the less CPU-traumatizing were fun. Whirled integrates well with the web, although sometimes you wish you had more screen realestate.

Definitely go check it out!

Congratulations to Daniel and the rest of the Whirled team. I think this is a great example of where you can go if you bet on the Web as the platform. It will also be loads of fun to watch how the experience of Whirled shapes Raph's Metaplace. Both Raph and Daniel would likely be quick to point out that Metaplace and Whirled are different, which they are, but they do rhyme. They will also share both audience and creators, so we'll get to watch how great ideas are expressed on both platforms.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

yup, I'm really interested to see how Metaplace and Whirled develop, given they seem to be taking similar approaches to many aspect of the problemspace. Metaplace does seem to be more tool focused, whereas Whirled seems more platformy.

Anonymous said...

hmm, wonder what aspect of my security prevents blogger from taking my identity, had to use IE to get these posts to work with OpenID from lj.