Second Life Virtual City

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A First Look at Second Life
Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:14PM EDT


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.

The latest news is that Reuters did indeed open a news bureau in Linden, the virtual city on Second Life, called SL by its virtual residents, which number more than 900,000. London-based correspondent Adam Pasick writes as Adam Reuters on the site. Curious? Here's a look at Second Life, and how the popular virtual world is attracting real-world companies and entrepreneurs,