Article on Virtual Worlds

[avad]

From News.com: A Virtual World with Peer to Peer Style
excerpt:
""Second Life" has 28,000 people online today, and some inhabitants are already making more than $100,000 a year in real-world money by selling digital wares constructed inside the world or running full-fledged role-playing games.

"Second Life" is built on a distributed model, in which numerous servers are connected together, each one representing about 16 acres of land in the digital world. Those patches of digital space are seamlessly connected together to create the world as experienced by visitors.... "

Comments

[exoterica.livejournal.com]

tell me if you find a way for me to get 10.3 on the cheap, i really wanna come play in SL. i started googling around for nonprofit deals or something as SKYPE also requires it, but i'm having no luck so far.

you asked a few weeks ago how i survive as an artist, and the truth is by the hair of me chiny chin chin! work is disappearing again and i had a serious freakout session today, no thanks to the moodiness of bad insomnia. apparently i'm a bit more manic than i realized, or my new space is bringing it out in me.

[unluckymonkey.livejournal.com]

So what you're saying is I should have never lost my skills in 3D design? Damn.

[anztac.livejournal.com]

You are far too kind... Most of those pictures are stock =D

Seems like it's time to get out the camera again, it's been the better part of a year!