✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-12-20
Surprisingly, Second Life is still thriving after all these years!
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The tech news story that caught my eye this week was that Second Life… is still around and thriving?
Techmeme: Linden Lab says it has spent $1.3B building Second Life, which debuted in 2003, paid out $1.1B to creators, and the virtual world has a ~$650M-pear-year economy (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
By Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat. View the full context on Techmeme.
In my early years going to SXSW, I remember seeing Life 2.0 back in 2010. At the time, Second Life was something I knew about but never fully grasped — much like many aspects of the wider Internet culture.
