meïdia on Second Life, what is Second Life?

We now have a home in Second Life.

Our island called Reahmicks will be our home as well as meïdia‘s playground. You can find us by teleporting yourself on Nereid (24, 207, 29) – see you there!

What is Second Life?
Living a Second Life, The Economist, September 28th 2006 :
(…) Second Life, as Mr Yellowlees illustrates, is not a game. Admittedly, some residents—there were 747,263 as of late September, and the number is growing by about 20% every month—are there just for fun. They fly over islands, meander through castles and gawk at dragons. But increasing numbers use Second Life for things that are quite serious. They form support groups for cancer survivors. They rehearse responses to earthquakes and terrorist attacks. They build Buddhist retreats and meditate. Many use it as an enhanced communications medium (…) By emphasising creativity and communication, Second Life is different from other synthetic online worlds.

From Wikipedia :
Second Life (SL) is a privately-owned, partly subscription-based 3-D virtual world, made publicly available in 2003 by San Francisco-based Linden Lab, and founded by former RealNetworks CTO Philip Rosedale. The Second Life “world” resides in a large array of servers that are owned and maintained by Linden Lab, known collectively as “the grid”. The Second Life client program provides its users (referred to as Residents) with tools to view and modify the SL world and participate in its virtual economy, which concurrently has begun to operate as a “real” market. As of early October 2006, Second Life has approximately 850,000 total user accounts and 358,000 users active over the previous 60 days, relatively few compared to other virtual worlds, such as World of Warcraft’s 7 million subscribers.

Chris also point to an interesting article from We Make Money Not Art, read it here.