The Guardian says today, "after the success of MySpace, Bebo and Youtube, Second Life is fast becoming the hottest thing on the Web." This two-page feature on Second Life sees veteran editor Vic Keegan take on the persona of Victor Vezina (and he looks pretty much like the real thing). This week we also see a six-page feature in Wired on Second Life (you'll have to wait a while for the online version. And Sun Microsystems has just announced it's going to be holding press conferences in Second Life. Two weeks back BBC Breakfast did a special feature on Second Life. It certainly has the media's attention.
I'm looking forward to seeing what will happen when it really takes off and more communities, businesses and, well, people I know, basically, get on there, and we can see what happens when a critical mass hits a new kind of online platform like this.
Hey Drew - count me in, Morgan Minton.
Posted by: Morgan McLintic | October 08, 2006 at 04:57 PM
Don't forget the piece in The Economist a week or two ago as well.
Posted by: Simon | October 09, 2006 at 10:36 AM
The Economist also had a nice feature a couple of weeks back about Second Life being used as a testing ground for all kinds of new approaches - e.g. they have set an area up in SL to show psychiatry students how schizophrenics experience the world.
You said:
>>I'm looking forward to seeing what will happen when it really takes off and more communities, businesses and, well, people I know, basically, get on there, and we can see what happens when a critical mass hits a new kind of online platform like this.<<
I'll be interested to see that too, although it makes me sad that once-liberatory virtual spaces are becoming increasingly crowded by commercial interests. Inevitable though, I guess.
Posted by: Fiona Blamey | October 09, 2006 at 11:08 AM