A First Look at Second Life

[SoulManX]

How's this for blurring the lines between virtual and real? A real Reuters reporter reports a real news story about Congress considering taxing real income earned on a virtual web site, where the reporter writes under a fake name as his real-life employer's (Reuters) new chief of a virtual news bureau. Huh? Welcome to Second Life, the popular and growing parallel universe on the Internet. Maybe you've read something about Second Life and thought it's just another online game. It is definitely social, but if you define a game as something that's played, won, and finished, this isn't it.




http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/devlin/4936



Has anyone played this yet?

 

[redmarvel]

Hadn't even heard of it until today... and I simply DON'T have the time to check it out.

 

[Duende Verde]

Hadn't even heard of it until today... and I simply DON'T have the time to check it out.

Looks like you need a Second Life to check out "Second Life"...
get it?
GET IT?

 

[SoulManX]

Looks like you need a Second Life to check out "Second Life"...
get it?
GET IT?

Cute

 

[jaguarr]

Hadn't even heard of it until today... and I simply DON'T have the time to check it out.

Too busy arguing about whether people should be allowed to have handguns to check this out, eh?

jag

 

[redmarvel]

Too busy arguing about whether people should be allowed to have handguns to check this out, eh?

jag

*lol* I would have called it a "discussion"... but yes, you're right on that score. Our discussion is probably more interesting than this website in any case.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

Is it like a MMORPG?

 

[maxwell's demon]

yeah when i read this i wanted to punch congress.