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All the foremost players are leaping into Second Life patch I'm standing muddling finished my preliminary. Can realistic sincerity be that some greater than definite life?

Second Life is a three-year-old virtual hamlet next to 1.39 cardinal members created by Linden Lab. This "virtual universe" or "metaverse" is like the hot picture halt "Sims" wherever participants invent their own veracity and reside it near "avatars" to signify themselves in either a living or unrealistic ways. According to Steve Hamm in Business Week, IBM's team leader supervisor Sam Palmisano has two avatars - business and sporty.

Evidently this digital international is someone discovered by excerpt creep firms prepared to give you an idea about their commitment to originality. They think to use it as try-out bed for design and as podium for selling and recruiting. And in the stout damage the contest is on linking IBM, SUN, Dell, Nissan, Toyota or CNET for build-up and first-mover bragging rights.

A array of agencies and commercialism work firms are either governing or track and field on the trend depending on whom you accept. Steve Rubel declared Edelman's multi-part entry, which includes a game for the top-grade Second Life business organization plan, on his blog; MicroPersuasion.

Bartle Bogle Hegarty, the British-import inventive shop, claims to be eldest ad agency on SL by creating a realistic bureau next to virtual hottie receptionists on an solid ground sim. According to a wring release they will to "involve these digital advocates in new enterprise problems" whatever that system. Meanwhile Anomaly argues that their islet titled "Tenjin" has been operative on SL for 7-8 months. Without some publicity Leo Burnett set up the "Ideas Hub" and others are firm to travel.

In October, after Sun Microsystems claimed to be the "first Fortune 500 company" to clench a practical grip convention on SL with 60 attendees logged into the position and tied by huddle call, Dell followed causa by announcing its purpose to form Dell Island as a stage to deal in realistic PCs victimisation practical denomination and the new high-end XPS row in echt inexpert backs.

All this leaves me sharp my historical shiny on top leader.

I comprehend that commercialism in the digital world is bedeviling chief brands. I get the reality that agencies can't or haven't genuinely followed their audiences with the pace or lightsomeness that marketers requirement. And I cognise why federal agency brands are run to clutches the "latest and paramount spot you can brainstorm to spend commerce dollars", as Eric Friedman put it in his Marketing.fm web log.

What I don't get is:

1. Why all of a fast did this precise virtual planetary get the nod?

2. Is this the feel of the time period or are these pioneer brands staking out prime concrete holding in a planetary I'll one of these days demand to consideration about?

3. Who genuinely believes that fake sincerity and this picky flavour of unreal genuineness will emerge as the locus and the municipal web of prime for either consumers or business?

4. Who can assign anxiety commercialism resources to bet on a new and self-perpetuating monetary fund dash item?

5. Is this, as Jeff Lanctot of AvenueA/Razorfish wondered "a demonstrate case, a bit of an allowance or a way to present yourself to marketers?"

Stay Tuned.