Scoble, Wu, and Hunicke Talk Virtual Worlds…

Kudos to Mitch Wagner of Information Week for blogging my morning SXSW panel, “Web 2.0 to Web 3D” in the space of several hours— it’s a nice summary of the conversation, with lots of nuggets of insight from Robert Scoble, Susan Wu, and Electronic Arts designer Robin Hunicke. I love playing host to several stellar minds. When he wasn’t Twittering Eric Rice in the audience, Robert offered this lovely metaphor for thinking about virtual worlds: “If I could sell you a magic penny for a million dollars that doubled every day for a month, would you buy it?” he said. “You should, because at the end of the month it would be worth more than $5 million. But at the beginning of the month, when the penny goes from one penny to two pennies to four pennies to eight pennies, people think it’s stupid.”

Question is, will those pennies keep stacking up? Read Mitch’s summary here.