{"id":3691,"date":"2014-02-19T19:30:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2014-02-19T19:32:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T19:32:28","slug":"are-creatoverse-dio-and-versu-at-the-end-of-the-linden-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3691","title":{"rendered":"Are Creatoverse, Dio and Versu At The End Of The Linden Road?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t yet listened in full to Ebbe Altberg’s meet and greet with the likes of Daniel Voyager, Inara Pey, Mal Burns, Saffia Widderins, Jo Yardley and Draxtor Despres. However one part that has caught my eye was posted by Inara Pey as a blog of its own:\u00a0Lab to announce product portfolio \u201csimplification\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Ebbe is quoted as saying:<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve already helped support some decisions of simplifying our portfolio a little bit, and there will be more news on that later this week. They won\u2019t have significant ramifications for us with regards to resources and stuff like that, so it\u2019s more lightening the load on our minds more so than the work we do every day, but it\u2019ll be a little bit simplified.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m very interested in Blocksworld, because it\u2019s very aligned with what we do in Second Life, which is empowering users to create things, to share things, and hopefully over time to monetize their creations.So that one is clear to me.<\/em><\/p>\n

Some of the other products, I\u2019m sort-of still getting up to speed on, I haven\u2019t even necessarily had product reviews or anything like that on those. but there will be a little bit of \u2026 a simplification of our portfolio later this week.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This isn’t the nicest thing to speculate about, but I strongly suspect that Dio, Versu and maybe even Creatoverse will be shown the door as part of this simplification. I do have reasons for my suspicions, they aren’t however backed by any firm evidence, I am merely speculating here.<\/p>\n

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I could be miles off base here but Versu looks like a self contained product in the main. I haven’t seen much talk about the product from Linden Lab, but I do see talk from Emily Short on her own blog. Versu looks like the sort of product that could go its own way, it may even turn up with Rod Humble’s next venture.<\/p>\n

My speculation for suggesting Dio might be near an end is because Dio just looks a tad neglected, it hasn’t so far made up its mind what it wants to be and appears to be limping along. Apologies to those involved with Dio, but that’s the way it looks and there’s even less talk of Dio than there is Versu!<\/p>\n

Maybe Dio will be merged with Versu, Dersu or Veo may be born!<\/p>\n

My reason for suggesting Creatoverse may be nearing an end is purely because Blocksworld and Patterns appear to be more flavour of the month.<\/p>\n

Obviously I’m speculating, I know nothing, although I do know that five is less than eight.<\/p>\n

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