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Second Life Tries For A Second Act -- InformationWeek

Mitch Wagner has a long and thoughtful summary on the state of SL as it is now, which is a paradoxical place to be: a profitable company with a half million strong user base that's so active, their voice usage is competitive with the world's largest VOIP provider, which still garners a tremendous amount of media coverage, while it's simultaneously dismissed by other media outlets and the wider tech world.  To figure out where things stand, Mitch talks with new CEO M. Linden (right), in-world entrepeneur  ArminasX Saiman, former Cisco metaverse evangelist Christian Renaud, and others.  (I offer some thoughts, too.)

What will it take for a serious, consistent, widespread reconsideration of Second Life by the Internet industry and the wider mainstream world?   In my opinion, that won't happen until world can show substantial, unambiguous growth in its active monthly user numbers-- say a million.  Until then, this paradox of perception will persist.

Comments

[Veeyawn Spoonhammer]

Nice alliteration.

[Ann Otoole]

What will it take?
#1 - What they are working on right now - 1 million concurrency.
#2 a concerted marketing campaign.

Then Secondlife will be a powerhouse like no other. The others fear Secondliffe. I see it in their advertising where they intentionally try to delude people that they can create content from sliders.

Yes the fear of Secondlife runs deep. I patiently await the new scalability with much pleasure because i *know* what will happen.

The only issue is my age. Will I live to see the day?