A game of Hive7 and seek
Posted April 12, 2006 by Jasmine Antonick
Sector: virtual world
Secret Sauce: NOTHING TO DOWNLOAD. That’s a huge deal in the virtual world community — and Hive7 does this by using (drumroll) AJAX! So Hive7 lives in your browser, not your computer. So for many of those (and there are many) whose computers don’t meet the intense requirements of Second Life graphics, this is your chance to enter the metaverse. And lowering the entry requirments is a great way to get more users. Surely, the paying users of Second Life are committed, but there are still only about 170,000 of them. Think of tha gazillions that still have yet to try this out. The features and stuff is, you know, avatar, rooms, animals, talking, social network, etc.
Headquarters: Silicon Valley
Management: Naval Ravikant, co-founder of Epinions, and Max Skibinsky
Funding: Naval Ravikant (also CEO of Vast.com) and Gaurav Dhillon, founder of Informatica.
Seen and Heard: Again, with the buzzword of Ajax, the blogerati is all over Hive7 (especially since Ravikant also sued August Capital and Benchmark) — Om has a good write up here and Silicon Beat and Ajaxian. Pete Cashmore like it too.
A game of Hive7 and seek
Posted April 12, 2006 by Jasmine Antonick
Sector: virtual world
Secret Sauce: NOTHING TO DOWNLOAD. That’s a huge deal in the virtual world community — and Hive7 does this by using (drumroll) AJAX! So Hive7 lives in your browser, not your computer. So for many of those (and there are many) whose computers don’t meet the intense requirements of Second Life graphics, this is your chance to enter the metaverse. And lowering the entry requirments is a great way to get more users. Surely, the paying users of Second Life are committed, but there are still only about 170,000 of them. Think of tha gazillions that still have yet to try this out. The features and stuff is, you know, avatar, rooms, animals, talking, social network, etc.
Headquarters: Silicon Valley
Management: Naval Ravikant, co-founder of Epinions, and Max Skibinsky
Funding: Naval Ravikant (also CEO of Vast.com) and Gaurav Dhillon, founder of Informatica.
Seen and Heard: Again, with the buzzword of Ajax, the blogerati is all over Hive7 (especially since Ravikant also sued August Capital and Benchmark) — Om has a good write up here and Silicon Beat and Ajaxian. Pete Cashmore like it too.
