1. At our company's disaster recovery tests this weekend, I overheard one of my co-workers talking about an avatar. I asked him what website he was referring to and he mentioned second life. He has been using SL for over 6 months and has a second job selling guns. He has coding skills and has joined with another person on SL, a graphic artist, to currently sell guns. They are moving into the vehicle and aircraft business. He has told me that by spending little time with some programming skill he was able to produce a good second income and is looking forward to more revenue oppurtunity in the future. This gives some evidence that SL is gradually gaining ground outside of the education world and my be the real deal.
2. I was watching TV a couple week ago and saw a Law & Order episode called "avatar". It was about a crime where the parties met and communicated via the virtual world. L&O only picks current topics that are very relative to real life and cutting edge, again giving me more evidence that this thing may take off. One concern was raised during the episode, in that all information provided and all activities are tracked and logged. Today end users may not be able to access this information, but the providers of these websites have the access and ability to log everything and query that information as needed. This is a little frighting.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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