The Street On Second Life
The Street has a number of valuable Second Life stories:
- Charting Second Life’s Growth - sums up the Economic Stats blogged up by Linden Lab’s CFO
- Second Life’s Michael Milken - explores the evolution of virtual corporate bonds in SL
- A Helping Hand For the Virtual World - this one captures the flow of where things are going:
- Second Life “is an ideal vehicle for conducting business in the global economy,” says Aaron Delwiche, one of the founders of Metaversatility. “Fifteen years ago, email was a fringe technology. Today, it’s impossible to imagine conducting business without it. Many analysts predict that virtual worlds will follow a similar path.”
- Second Life Mints It’s First Millionaire - Virtual landlord has $1M of entirely in-world assets. If you’re having trouble dealing with this, here’s the cure:
- say “the virtual is real“
- repeat this phrase as frequently as possible
- then as it gets easier to deal with, say it once a day or as needed.
- ABN Amro Goes Virtual - This Dutch bank has a presence in SL and is contemplating offering virtual loans!(the above-mentioned cure will work for this too
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