Still not excited about getting a second life

I keep reading about second life. Friends mention it. It’s funny, the same pressures that got me to try facebook are not working to get me into this virtual world. I am glad for people like Darren Barefoot who provide some much needed perspective, check out his latest post

The article later suggests that such a project might have cost $500,000. So that’s, what, about $416 per visitor?

Only about 1 million users had logged on in the previous 30 days (the standard measure of Internet traffic), and barely a third of that total had bothered to drop by in the previous week. Most of those who did were from Europe or Asia, leaving a little more than 100,000 Americans per week to be targeted by US marketers.

I still think rather than the current second life, future alternative virtual worlds will make it big, eventually. Once the performance, detail, activities, traffic and open source infrastructure are there.

While I admit I have not really given it a chance, the linden labs walled garden appears to be over-hyped, poorly populated, slow and not much fun. If you know otherwise I would love for you to demonstrate its plus points.