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Second Life Succumbs to Real Life

June 10, 2010 on 7:15 am | In Build, IdBlog | Add a Comment

A short piece in Read Write Web yesterday noted that Second Life, the multi-player virtual world created by Linden Labs, is cutting staff and moving to a web-based platform.

How could a global multi-player environment not be based on standard web languages? That non-compatibility with the largest network on this planet doomed Second Life as a marketing venue from the start. All those businesses that set up shop in the virtual world in 2007 found their expensive digital venues virtually abandoned and would-be visitors from the WWW barred by the platform gap.

The real news here is that Linden Labs has finally figured out Metcalfe’s Law.