Very interesting presentation by Cory Ondrejka of Linden Labs centered on the power of user creation. I haven't checked out Second Life yet because I thought it was simply a 3D chat room. It's actually a lot more and I'm compelled to sign up now and start building some virtual objects and space.

Some facts and figures he mentioned:
* 35% of adults spend more time online than working
* everything in Second Life is built by residents
* residents own the intellectual property for their creations
* Second Life has a US$6.5 million internal economy

Hey Adam,

Yes, I attended this as well. I had a colleague take me through this a couple months ago to get the jist. I really didn't get it then. I'm still a bit unsure why I'd ever participate, but certainly an intriuging technology nonetheless.

Thanks for the post Adam. Yes, second life is really great. There is another company too called multiverse
http://www.multiverse.net

They let you build your own second-life environment

No web 3.0, I'm not used to web 2.0 yet!