Educational Gaming Commons - Press Start

For the past several weeks, the word on the street is that OpenSim and Second Life can "talk" to each other - meaning it's possible for an avatar to cross worlds. Neat stuff, and perhaps the precursos to the actual Metaverse we all hope for.

But where does this leave Linden Lab, creator of SL? Well, it appears that LL is looking to become a sort of virtual value-added reseller (VAR), providing services like economies, trading, etc. An interesting spin; will it work? This begs the bigger question - how will LL survive in the upcoming era of open source virtual worlds?

Read more at

http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/07/lindeb-lab-plan.html

and

http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/07/11/interview-linden-prepar...