08-17-2006 08:50
A friend of mine in the content management field sent me this in an email; I thought it was worth sharing. While not an engrossing article (a tad dry for me), I thought it was interesting for me to see that SL is being used by lowly commoners like me all the way up to Chief Scientists of major corporations.

Full Article

From: someone
…At the recent Collaborative Technologies Conference in Boston, John Seely Brown, the former Xerox Chief Scientist and guru of Social Networking, described his use of Second Life as a collaborative community platform in a university seminar. Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its chatting avatar residents. Now three years old, it has grown to over 350,000 people from around the world.

For purists, all these avatars instant messaging one another may not look like the kind of content in a typical publishing operation, but it is the stuff of community portals in the future.
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