Internet.Pixel.Turks

I have never seen so many start-up companies take advantage of the whole social web 2.0 aspect as the latest offering comes from Planet of The Internet. The idea behind this site is that people can sign up and buy virtual pixilated houses and companies can purchase pixilated office buildings o help advertise themselves. So far there is only one city taken up by a couple of companies and six or more citizens. This almost reminds me of Second Life and even more reminds me of Habbo. The differentiating factor is that Planet of The Internet is acting more of a profile site with a pixilated overlay to keep the same old social web idea seemingly fresh.

I think it’s a unique idea, but with houses and buildings looking the same, I could see internet users rather repulsed that their individuality is greatly reduced unless they pay more money for a better house or possible accessories (if they ever come out with such an add-on).  Besides what could be repulsing, I noticed a phenomena: Turkish users. Are they starting to defect from the heavily Turkish base that is located at destination Xuqa? Hmm… it might be interesting to track.

I would really like to participate in this project, but I think their emailing server is down, because I have not received my confirmation yet ☹. Will post an update to this blog post when I am fully signed up.