Virtual Life: Business Week Offers a Summary

Those of you who stop by here from time to time tend to be the business-type and up on business-y stuff, but just on the off chance you haven't seen it yet, Business Week has a nice summary on the current state of virtual worlds in business in a Special Report, Virtual Life.

The Coming Virtual Web offers various opinons on whether virtual worlds is Web Future.  In competition for my favorite sentence, these are running neck and neck:

"In contrast to the Web, where there's almost no assumption of a human heartbeat behind the Web page, virtual worlds are inherently social settings."

"It's no secret that the same efficiency that drives e-commerce also makes it a boring and lonely pursuit."

Will 3D replace WebEx? The article The Virtual Meeting Room asks the question.

The prestigious INSEAD is entering Second Life and I Was A Second Life B-School Student takes a look.

Digital Suburbia tours Kaneva, one new virtual world currently in public beta.

And there is more.

Photo credit:  Business Week

April 24, 2007