Why tech leaders think Second Life could be a gold mine. - Jan. 22, 2007

Why tech leaders think Second Life could be a gold mine. - Jan. 22, 2007: "By early January more than 3,000 IBM employees had acquired their own avatars, and about 300 were routinely conducting company business inside Second Life. 'The 3-D Internet may at first appear to be eye candy,' Palmisano writes in an e-mail interview, 'but don't get hung up on how frivolous some of its initial uses may seem.' He calls 3-D realms such as Second Life the 'next phase of the Internet's evolution' and says they may have 'the same level of impact' as the first Web explosion."