Tech evangelist, Twitter monster and meme pack rat Robert Scoble poses the question and tantalizes us with an answer in a blog post sent out across his social media cloud or whatever it is that trails him around (115,000 followers can’t be wrong – can they?) when he asks: “Is Second Life about to enter its “second life?””.
Commenting on the rise and fall of the earlier Second Life hype cycle, Scoble hints that tomorrow at 11:00 am will see the launch of something significant enough to perhaps herald the ’second life’ of the virtual world:
Anyway, one thing happened that I find very interesting: it continued to grow in users, time spent on the site, and dollars spent in it.
On Friday I sat down with Mark to find out why.
First, the users remained very evangelistic. Second, corporations like IBM found other uses for its islands and kept investing (they now use these islands for training and replacements of expensive conferences). Third, the technology has been steadily improving. Fourth, the company has found new ways to bring new users in and make the experience easier to get into.
But he admitted that they had been pretty quiet and avoided doing more PR work until just recently.
Why is that changing this week? You’ll see why tomorrow morning at about 11 a.m. on building43.
Please refrain from collecting up prims to create a Golden Calf from while waiting for the message down from the mountain. There’s already a Golden Calf provided in the Library for focusing adulation and rampant speculation from the unworthy masses looking on high for wisdom and guidance.
HAHAHA. But what happens if they MOVE THE LIBRARY! EEP!
Classic *No news is good news*?
Seems that rarely does GOOD NEWS come down from the Linden mountain.
there is a mountain??!
Well, first there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. I think it’s something to do with flickering alpha textures with shadows enabled.
Mmmmmm alphas. yummy.
Im assuming this is 11AM Pacific?
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Is this the Robert Scoble’s second scoble?
After years of amassing twitter followers by using twitter for the purpose of amassing twitter followers… after a huge push to get people to use friendfeed that never happened… is this finally Scoble’s second Scoble?
…nah…