This is both exciting and puzzling. It’s exciting because I love the idea of the post-national communal space online that Second Life is meant to be, but I can’t help but be puzzled at its continued success as the interface is so blocky and well, ugly.
When I first about Second Life (probably through boingboing.net) I was one of the hundreds of thousands of people who went out and downloaded the software, installed it, and then made my first and only trip into Linden world. Snow Crash is one of my all-time favorite books, so the idea of a nascent metaverse really appealed to me but when I got there it seemed stunted, awkward, and slow. And that was on a T3 line!
I’d imagine that I would really like Second Life in a few years but for now I just can’t get into it, even though it may help me get into Sweden.
An article about the move can be found “here”:http://www.thelocal.se/6219/
Does Second Life make you all tingly inside? Maybe you should try getting a “first life”:http://www.getafirstlife.com/.