Those of you who stop by here from time to time tend to be the business-type and up on business-y stuff, but just on the off chance you haven't seen it yet, Business Week has a nice summary on the current state of virtual worlds in business in a Special Report, Virtual Life.
The Coming Virtual Web offers various opinons on whether virtual worlds is Web Future. In competition for my favorite sentence, these are running neck and neck:
"In contrast to the Web, where there's almost no assumption of a humanheartbeat behind the Web page, virtual worlds are inherently socialsettings."
"It's no secret that the same efficiency that drives e-commerce also makes it a boring and lonely pursuit."
Will 3D replace WebEx? The article The Virtual Meeting Room asks the question.
The prestigious INSEAD is entering Second Life and I Was A Second Life B-School Student takes a look.
Digital Suburbia tours Kaneva, one new virtual world currently in public beta.
And there is more.
Photo credit: Business Week
April 24, 2007
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