Second Life (GigaOm Show)

Phillip Rosedale is the founder and CEO of second life. They talked about HULU is now open to the public. It’s an easy way to watch some of you favorite TV shows. Second life is said to be worldwide. Second Life has more than million registered accounts, although many are inactive, some residents have multiple accounts, and there are no reliable figures for actual long-term consistent usage.
Second Life is considered a 3-D virtual world created by its residents. It opened to the public in 2003, it has grown a great bit, and today has millions of residents.
Wagner James Au (in second life) is the GigOm editor and author of “The Making of Second Life.” Second life is basically an online world, which the people who are there build everything. Second life is now about five years old. It started out with about sixteen severs. The size then was about the six of a few area blocks, and could be explored in about an hour. Now Second life has grown so rapidly there are almost, 18,000 servers. Second life continues to develop, it’s expected that all of second life will not be consumed. They talked about an island which they were currently at, they lady who created this digital ecosystem, profiting from donations left due to frustrations with second life. The question of if second life will survive, it’s now over a half billion dollar economy over a million dollars a day. Phillip Rosedale has stated that his goal with second life is to demonstrate a viable model for a virtual economy or virtual society.