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	Virtual interworlds passport

Fast T friend

11-5-2007 4:43 AM

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virtual, virtual reality, identity

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IBM and Linden Labs, the operator of the Second Life virtual world, said on Tuesday they will work on ways to eventually let people use the a single online persona in different online services

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cd57b45f-0762-4ef5-b202-cb8a7d0f41e5/D638A0A9-B342-4A75-97C2-F9443C19B1CD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/10/10/second_life_ibm_in_open_borders_for_virtual_worlds/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Technology+stories" href="http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/10/10/second_life_ibm_in_open_borders_for_virtual_worlds/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Technology+stories" style="font-size: 11px;">www.boston.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/10/10/second_life_ibm_in_open_borders_for_virtual_worlds/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Technology+stories"><P>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - <A target="_new" href="http://boston.stockgroup.com/sn_overview.asp?symbol=IBM">IBM</A> &lt;IBM.N&gt; and Linden Labs, the  operator of the Second Life virtual world, said on Tuesday they  will work on ways to eventually let people use a single online  persona in different online services.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/10/10/second_life_ibm_in_open_borders_for_virtual_worlds/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Technology+stories">Currently, people who create a character, or avatar, in one  virtual world cannot take that identity into another service.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/10/10/second_life_ibm_in_open_borders_for_virtual_worlds/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Technology+stories"><P>An open system would let people create one avatar that  would keep the same basic appearance and customer data no  matter where it was in cyberspace.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/10/10/second_life_ibm_in_open_borders_for_virtual_worlds/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Technology+stories"><P>IBM's Parris said the effort would first focus on studying  situations where the ability to travel between virtual worlds  is most in demand. The nuts and bolts of how to make different  software work together will come later.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D638A0A9-B342-4A75-97C2-F9443C19B1CD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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