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<FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>You could read a recent report I wrote on SL. You can find it at:<BR>
<a href="http://">http://</a>hosted.simonbiggs.easynet.co.uk/texts/SL_report.pdf<BR>
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Best<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>Andreas Schiffler <<a href="aschiffler@ferzkopp.net">aschiffler@ferzkopp.net</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:33:38 -0800<BR>
<B>To: </B>idc <<a href="idc@mailman.thing.net">idc@mailman.thing.net</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>[iDC] Anyone using SL<BR>
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Ran across the article "Whatever happened to Second Life?"<BR>
<a href="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/354457/whatever-happened-to-second-life/1">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/354457/whatever-happened-to-second-life/1</a><BR>
Quote: "Three years on, and Second Life seems no closer to finding a <BR>
respectable reason for being than it did in 2006."<BR>
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In Slashdot comments, people are dropping for various reasons, from the <BR>
lack of "combat physics" to the loss of being "free of all rules and <BR>
social restrictions". As for myself, I never found it very compelling <BR>
beyond the technical if its sheer scale and that it was cross-platform <BR>
with functional Mac and Linux clients.<BR>
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My question to the list: Is anyone still using SL and if so for what?<BR>
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--Andreas<BR>
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