Second Life Community Convention: Mitch Kapor

Posted on | August 21, 2006 | No Comments

the second annual Second Life Community Convention taking place in San Francisco just finished yesterday. Mark Wallace from 3pointD.com was kind enough to transcribe the kick-off speech by Mitch Kapor. Mitch Kapor created Lotus 1-2-3, founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation and is chairman of the Mozilla Foundation and at the board of Linden Labs (creators of Second Life). with a record like this, it’s not a big surprise that the speech he gave on SL’s history and long-term perspectives is inspiring, to say the least.

with currently almost 550.000 residents (half of them being active during the past two months), SecondLife has seen an exponential increase in usage since creditcard-checks were abolished – a measure heavily critized by many long-term-users. as for content, more and more companies take the step to go virtual: recent announcements and rumours included Adidas Reebok and Toyota. jack in!

 

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