After Come in my world, a virtual universe dedicated to meeting the Explicate of Orange Labs unveils Katoa, a service conceived as the crossroads between social network, space and personal expression … virtual art gallery? Once registered, the user is invited to devise a graphic spaces of its own. Enriched images, text, video and sounds, these “showrooms” can then be visited by others who comment, piocheront content if the author allows, and will be a sense of personality this before, why not, add it to their network of relations. Endearment done in Flash, Katoa advantage of Flex and Action Script language, to enable the user to organize the best graphics or sound that would make up its “Showrooms”. These can be housed directly on Katoa, or imported from services like You Tube or Flick. The hotel offers the opportunity to edit and resize each of content, and define whether they should remain private or to integrate them into “magnets.” Cote visitor, the interface is designed to navigate contemplative but active, the mouse, the idea being to lead a visitor to one universe to another, to invite him to make new contacts. Comments or mechanisms to gently question the other - the way of poke on Facebook - are expected to facilitate the process.
On the way to a MySpace, playground privileged musicians from all walks of life, Katoa would unite a community of users for whom the expression goes through the image and multimedia designers, artists, but also Internet users tired of lambda Ergonomic and opportunities for customization of the major traditional social networks. Aware, however, that opening these services to third parties is necessary to achieve together a large community quickly, Katoa intends to propose a module export its showrooms to a profile Facebook. Exempt advertisements, Katoa focus on alternative business models, as the dissemination of showrooms in the colors of leading brands, or sale of digital content light, to finance its activities. After a few months of alpha-test reserved for a close community of testers, the department opens its doors today in the form of a public beta.
Jun 29