http://gapingvoid.com/2007/04/05/why-second-life-fails-marketers-andor-vice-versa/ "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:17:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://gapingvoid.com/2007/04/05/why-second-life-fails-marketers-andor-vice-versa/#comment-17783 smarty Sat, 07 Apr 2007 02:26:14 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3636#comment-17783 Instead of Second Life, they should have called it Uncanny Valley. Instead of Second Life, they should have called it Uncanny Valley.

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2007/04/05/why-second-life-fails-marketers-andor-vice-versa/#comment-17782 Jan / The Faux Press Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:04:50 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3636#comment-17782 Second Life is only creepy if you've no purpose there. With purpose, why, it's not creepy at all. Having mastered tools & techniques for machinima-making in SL, it seems a darned easy way to collaborate on short films with folks from all over the globe. With a skype conference call, it becomes an interesting learning / teaching tool. Second Life is only creepy if you’ve no purpose there. With purpose, why, it’s not creepy at all. Having mastered tools & techniques for machinima-making in SL, it seems a darned easy way to collaborate on short films with folks from all over the globe. With a skype conference call, it becomes an interesting learning / teaching tool.

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2007/04/05/why-second-life-fails-marketers-andor-vice-versa/#comment-17781 James Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:59:52 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3636#comment-17781 I'd add that as well as being "pretty darn creepy" second life also makes me feel ridiculously old because a) I've struggled to make my avatar not look like a complete weirdo and b) in some ways I don't 'get it' as much as my younger (read hipper, smarter, savvier etc) friends and acquaintances do. And I'm only 25! I’d add that as well as being “pretty darn creepy” second life also makes me feel ridiculously old because a) I’ve struggled to make my avatar not look like a complete weirdo and b) in some ways I don’t ‘get it’ as much as my younger (read hipper, smarter, savvier etc) friends and acquaintances do.
And I’m only 25!

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