Comments on: Book excerpt: 'The Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life'

With the right approach and commitment to a plan, entrepreneurs can find plenty of opportunity for profitable businesses in the virtual world.
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[godseyesore]

Second life?

What these folk need is a FIRST life!

[Sea of Cortez]

2ndlife sucks, just more propaganda!

This relentless propaganda for 2ndlife is one more example of the lies & lies out of Silicon Valley Big media. I mean no one but a few losers who know nothing about Technology or have no real life find 2ndLife interesting. But since 2ndLife is VC funded, which VCs can have their Big media brethren hype whatever they want, we receive this continuos BS & hype about 2ndLife by Cnet and countless other Big media sources.

Put it this way if 2ndLife was not in Silicon Valley (San Francisco) and had not received VC funding, you would NEVER be reading about it over & over here or elsewhere in Big media, after so many people have said that it is boring & useless. I mean who wants to download a 50MB software to chat as a silly looking Avatar with other
silly looking Avatars. And then have to download that 50MB software in 2 weeks as they change it.

After all, if people want to enter a 3D world to have a virtual world experience and to have fun then they will choose an game like World of War Craft which is media rich and action packed. If people want to have an online business class meeting they would use a product such as eauditorium which is instant to use and offers
application sharing & voice conferencing which are essential features for business meetings.

[Yakk35]

STOP IT

No one cares about Second Life, no one! I could see if you had a million WoW articles because that game actually matters. But SL? It's pretentious BS.

[toster]

30k users logged into Second Life at any given time

30k to over 50k users logged into Second Life at any given time means that *some* people find SL a viable use of their entertainment time. c|net is simply covering a (growing) part of the entertainment computing industry, like WoW or The Sims Online.

While I often wonder what some Second Life users see in SL to devote so much time & energy to it, I also wonder what it is about SL that engenders as much energy (& perhaps as much time) spent in the denigration of SL. It's like the PC/Mac wars. Ultimately, use the right tool for the job - or spend your entertainment time using the gadget or program or service that suits you - whatever it may be.

[Draxon]

problem is

The problem is the media portrays SL as generic family entertainment, when 10k of those users are men(likely some woman) pretending to be "slave girls" or escorts, another 10k looking for slave girls and escorts. the other 10k are fat lazy people who like to go clubbing in sl cuz they were to lazy in rl.

[TGallag69]

To Each There Own.

Some people like WoW- where goals are set for you.
Some people like Second Life- where you make the goal.

On a plus side, all Second Life users legally own IP Rights to anything they create. In games like WoW, you legally own nothing, it all belongs to Blizzard.

Besides all the hype, the number of Second Life residents making a "Sustainable" Living is around 400 or so. Not as big as the media would lead people to believe. I myself only make between $400-$600 a month. And thats from stuff I did in Photoshop about 2 years ago (all designs are copyrighted too). I pay about $15/month for Premium Membership, which is what I'd pay to play Warcraft too, yet I make 26 to 40x that back.

Honestly tho, trying to compare Second Life to other MMO's is Apple's and Oranges. One's an Open-Ended Platform, the others are games.

[play7]

laughable

How do you make money in a game that Linden Lab continues to lose inventory. With creators nolonger supporting their products, if some poor newbie person loses money buy from a vendor and they don`t receive their item you just take their money right? OH! thats how you make $600.00 a month! Priceless! There you go a Second Life business man

[lowenbrau212]

Cnet deleted my first comment

Nice so now Cnet is deleting comments that are against Second Life?

I said I am sick of Dan Terdiman and Second Life, and that SL is a game for social outcasts and pedophiles who would rather wank it to cartoon images on a computer screen rather than go out and meet real people, and that it will run its course sooner rather than later and be forgotten about.

Seriously, why do people play this thing. Its only doing things you can do in real life. In something like World of Warcraft, you can play as a elf with swords and battle-axes fighting dragons and orcs and gaint monsters, and use spells. Thats something you cant do in real life, you use your imagination to "play" in a dream world, and its fun.

So what am I going to do in SL? LOOK AT ME, I'M SHOPPING FOR CLOTHES. WOW WEE!!!!! Cast level 10 change hair color to blond spell!!!

Also, I use to work for an internet company, and they lied about the number of people that visited the site everyday, all internet companies do, Linden is doing the same.

[play7]

They are laughing

You make many important points. WOW and SL are to totaly different games. But the only thing that is worse is Danial Linden ( AKA Dan Terdiman amoung other alts). What is even worse he makes fun of its men users playing girls on sl. What the hell? he insulting people playing the game? Oh they provide the means for faking being a sexy woman. Then Dan Terdiman goes off insulting them? Well these types of people don`t even have a account. They only have it because its their job ( or should i say They feel they have a life) With people thinking people that play Second Life Don`t have lives). Reall Nice.

[play7]

MORE BS form LINDEN LAB!

Why is it we are subjects to this incorrect. Totally waste of time time of BS about Second Life? If you love sex, underage children (11 to 17 mostly below 15 years of age) playing escorts and making about $50.00 a day faking being a woman on second life giving vr sex to some poor unknowning guy. Then second life is for you! If you can stand a slow laggy game with lindens always banning people for no reason. Nerds that think second life is real. Newbie clubs owners kissing the ***** of Linden Lab to get more and more power. But relaly don`t care of the new players. But only promoting themselves in real life. Then again you love second life. Its a wgreat place to be insulted. Enjoy Your Second Life. For when you done your checking account wil be empty and your life in the toliet.

[jvastine]

Why are you wasting your time?

It really is laughable reading these comments from those ******** about the C|Net coverage regarding Second Life. Sure, the virtual world has several issues that need to be dealt with regarding age restriction, scalability, etc. But C|Net is in the business of covering technology news. If you don't like an article's subject, then why read it or waste time posting your complaints? If you do not like the coverage of C|Net News you are free to get your news from another source, the web is a big place and there are plenty of other news sources out there. Perhaps those who are screaming about the coverage are just seeking attention, or possibly you are jealous because it wasn't your idea, or you just cannot seem to figure out how to monetize it. Anyway, so whether or not you like it, SL is not going to go anywhere. So save yourselves some anxiety and just learn to live with it!