The Making of Second Life: Notes from the New World
Even while you sleep, Second Life continues to grow. Since its 2003 launch, the three-dimensional Internet virtual world has become a veritable expanding alternate universe for millions of registered users. No one is better qualified to make sense of the headline-making SL phenomenon than Wagner...
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Even while you sleep, Second Life continues to grow. Since its 2003 launch, the three-dimensional Internet virtual world has become a veritable expanding alternate universe for millions of registered users. No one is better qualified to make sense of the headline-making SL phenomenon than Wagner James Au, the world's first embedded Internet journalist. The extensive time that Au spent inside SL's Linden Lab enable him to plot the seemingly implausible rise of this relatively new vortex of web activity. Vivid snapshots of where the 3D action is.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061353208 (0061353205)
Publish date: March 1st 2008
Publisher: HarperBusiness
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
This is a good book on the history of making Second Life. I've long been an SL user and advocate, despite it's short comings, and enjoyed this book. Other SL users may enjoy this, but I'm not sure anyone else will. It's great to have this history documented, though, depending on what happens with vi...