The Making of Second Life

Author: Wagner James Au
Edition: First Edition first Printing
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0061353205

The Making of Second Life: Notes from the New World

The wholly virtual world known as Second Life has attracted more than a million active users, millions of dollars, and created its own-very real-economy. Get The Making of Second Life computer books for free.
em>The Making of Second Life is the behind-the-scenes story of the Web 2.0 revolution's most improbable enterprise: the creation of a virtual 3-D world with its own industries, culture, and social systems. Now the toast of the Internet economy, and the subject of countless news articles, profiles, and television shows, Second Life is usually known for the wealth of real-world companies (Reuters, Pontiac, IBM) that have created "virtual offices" within it, and the number of users ("avatars") who have become wealthy through their user-created content.What sets Second Life apart from Check The Making of Second Life our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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