The Making of Second Life
Subtitle: Notes from the New World
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Collins
Published: February 26, 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780061353208
Subjects: Business & Management; Business & Economics; Games / Gamebooks / Crosswords; Business/Economics; Internet - General; Video & Electronic - General; Business & Economics / General; General; Second Life (Game); Shared virtual environments
First sentence: This is the epic story on an empire that exists inside a metal box.
Description: An overview of SecondLife, written by a journalist initially employed by Linden Labs.
Notes: With index.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: ix; title: Introduction: From Old World to New World: A Brief History of the Metaverse
pagenum: 12; label: 1
title: Touching Knowledge: From Virtual Reality to Real Company
pagenum: 13; label: 2
title: Imagining the Net in 3-D: Shunting the Datastream into Rivers and Sky
pagenum: 23; label: 3
title: The Engines of Creation: The Alchemy of User-Created Content
pagenum: 39; label: 4
title: The Unwisdom of Crowds: Object Lessons in Online-World Social Engineering
pagenum: 51; label: 5
title: Self-Made Mankind: Identity and Role-Playing in the Digital Generation
pagenum: 69; label: 6
title: Making Love: Romance and Desire, Digitized for Your Protection
pagenum: 85; label: 7
title: Building Walls, Defending Territory: Border Disputes and Culture Clashing in War's Shadow
pagenum: 103; label: 8
title: Burning Down the House: Democracy as a Business Model
pagenum: 119; label: 9
title: Avatar as Entrepreneur: From Content Creator to Revenue Generator
pagenum: 141; label: 10
title: Investing in Utopia: A Rough Explorer's Guide for Corporatons and Organizations in the Metaverse
pagenum: 163; label: 11
title: Law Is Code: Crime and Punishment in the Net's 3-D Future
pagenum: 183; label: 12
title: Building a Better World: Research, Education, and Activism in an Online World
pagenum: 197; label: 13
title: Convergence: An Internet-to-Online World Road Map for the Next Decade
pagenum: 215; title: Afterword
pagenum: 239; title: A Selected Second Life Glossary
pagenum: 251; label: Appendix One
title: Three Tips for Exploring Second Life
pagenum: 257; label: Appendix Two
title: Three Tips for Real Businesses Starting Out in Second Life
pagenum: 259; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 261; title: Index
pagenum: 265