Thursday, March 20, 2008

Virtual Fuzzies?

I just read a blog by a web-preneur who makes extra income on Second Life - selling internet advertising / marketing and get this... virtual meeting spaces! She and others actually charge rent to groups who meet online in their galleries and spaces. She also runs a virtual TV production company, sells virtual shirts & accessories, and sells real life SL swag on CafePress.

It turns out that many people also have virtual offices and do work in Second Life... this in addition to their First Life. Good grief! I thought the whole point of Second Life was to escape your dreary, work filled first one. I still can't figure out the flying bit - my character usually flies into everything. I guess that's why I gave up ages ago.
It was absolutely flabbergasting.

Screen shot of a virtual office from a different blogger:


Now I'm thinking I may have to explore this venue further. I already work online. I could sell virtual fashions and accessories in my Second Life. Beats the heck out of actually making stuff.

Screen shot of a virtual meeting:


I cracked up when I read these two blogs (yes, there are two) and saw the pics (heck, I'm still giggling a little). But I've come to realize that this is the direction a lot of the business world has been moving towards for years. Society has already taken up residence online, business hounds like me were sure to follow. Resistance is futile. If anything, this is just one more venue to market my real life products in.

Egads, soon we'll all be hooked up to life support systems and the internet, living out our virtual lives strictly in our minds and on bits of silicon and light beams.
And I'll be the last one on earth still stylishly clothed and working the machines while trying to sell Felt Fuzzies to the mutant dog-men running through the city ruins. *shudder*

Cheers!

+ann