Re:What about a virtual environment? (Score 1)

I think virtual environment is one of the key aspects for future communities. Combining mobile communications and virtual community has under the last year been very much under discussion here in Finland, check out e.g. http://kolumbus.fi/yhteiso/ (unfortenaly only in Finnish) or http://www.matchem.com.

Hotelli Kultakala is a 3D real-time community with users being able to chat and move from location to another in a virtual hotel. Users can customise their own rooms by purchasing furnitures with their mobile phones. For the first three months they have been presumed to have a turnover of ~ 50 000 Euros - not much yet, but showing some of the power of this kind of environments. Check it out!

Matchem-site is in English, so it is pretty self-explanatory. Check it out anyway!

I have a strong belief that mobile is one of key factors for upcoming communities - users of mobile devices are reachable wherever they are - think about the high usage rates of SMSs in Europe - shouldnt' this already show the power of mobile com's in people's behaviour? What do you think?