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Article: Just made a sale in Second Life.(YOUR AVATAR)(marketing of virtual worlds by useing Avatars (Computer graphics))
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- ColoradoBiz
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- July 1, 2008
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Welcome to the future.
Second Life is a platform in which users create avatars and places of all descriptions and interact with millions of other users around the world--all in cyberspace.
At any given time, nearly 40,000 people are logged on and guiding their avatar through this virtual world, a good many of them networking, marketing and meeting with clients. Second Life even has its own economy, complete with its own currency and plenty of people making a living selling real estate and assorted virtual goods and services.
Dave Elchoness, a Niwot-based employment attorney, is executive director of the Association of Virtual Worlds. "It's an ...