Gartner, of the famous Hype Cycle, released news out of their Gartner Symposium/ITExpo:2007 going on through tomorrow, that they are predicting 80% of active Internet uses will have some kind of a second life in a virtual world by 2011....
Tech consultancy Gartner, whose “Hype Cycle” has been used to gauge Second Life adoption, thinks that 80 percent of active Internet users will be in non-gaming virtual worlds like Second Life by the end of 2011 — a huge increase from current levels.
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...
But are virtual worlds for real?
This article is a marketing primer for second life and virtual worlds
On November 30th IBM hosted a Virtual Worlds event in London for European press. IBM teamed the real world day with a global “think tank” in Second Life. I was lucky enough to be among the 33 bloggers, thinkers and...
