From BusinessWeek. It appears that Sean Fanning, Napster’s creator, has raised money from a couple of very prominent tech investors (Ron Conway and Joi Ito) to put together the site that will presumably be appearing here. I wonder if their plans are to focus solely on WoW or expand into a more general meta-community for MMO users? The former seems like a business that can’t be sustained longer-term (because WoW will eventually lose popularity, hard as that is to believe sometimes), while I know at least one other group that’s working on something like the latter.
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December 2nd, 2006 at 12:22 am
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December 3rd, 2006 at 10:53 pm
Ronald Watts
There’s Stratics that fits into the latter category. I was a reporter for UO.Stratics a year or two ago. I actually tried to get them to agree to let me make a portal for the Iron Realms games there, but they didn’t agree to do it
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:10 pm
Matt
Thanks for the effort at least, Ronald!
–matt