The Grand Vision

Portalarium's grand vision entails uniting an open ecosystem of social gamers, learners, humanitarians, and environmentalists, fully integrated with existing social networks and existing gamer communities. Such an ecosystem would keep participants engaged with the combination of interconnected products and services via the only persistent factor that withstands the test of time -- people's relationships with each other.

The future of online social play, social learning, and social activism, is not about building better honey pots to trap participants behind "walled gardens." It is about channeling the "honey" through existing relationship networks. Follow the participants everywhere they go and involve everyone they know.

To enhance data portability, Portalarium supports the development of an industry standard for social play, learning, environment, good will, and health activity streams, along the lines of what Google pioneered with its OpenSocial and Friend Connect services. Think of it as OpenLife -- encompassing OpenSocial, OpenPlay, OpenLearning, OpenHealth, OpenEarth, OpenGood and more to come.

Portalarium is developing the tools and infrastructure for the OpenLife ecosystem of social games and virtual worlds. The system will allow products to be developed in any programming language, on any platform or device, text-based, animated, 2D, or 3D. They can be for any age, gender, region, or demographic. Despite such variety, they will all be online and social in nature, and be part of a meta-community that is linked together with persistent and shared friend lists, messaging, content sharing, achievements, trading, gifting, matchmaking, and interest/relationship-based sub-grouping.

Most of these tools will be made available as open source for those developers/publishers that prefer to publish their own products and maintain their own customer base. However, Portalarium will also be a full-service publisher for those partners that prefer to just make the products and let Portalarium handle deployment, server hosting, customer authentication, customer service, and billing.

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