Digital Me

Would more people pop in and out of multiple virtual worlds if they had one fixed identity across cyberspace? The folks at Linden Labs think so.

Linden Labs is the company behind Second Life, the very successful virtual world where people can gather valuables, purchase property, make friends, attend lectures and so on. In Second Life, users create avatars that become their cyberskin, the face and body that represents them to the world. Linden Labs is betting that having one cyber-identity across virtual worlds will cause more people to spend more time in virtual worlds. We based our discussion on this Yahoo! News story.

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