Anyone who doesn't think that SecondLife will make MySpace look like the 1970s video game 'Pong' should check out these articles from WIRED magazine.
SecondLife is more than just a simulated online world where you simply make a colorful character and hang out, chat and cyber-loiter. People are making actual livings (i.e. major cash) by making their own online SecondLife stores and selling real products AND virtual SecondLife products (like characters, clothes, etc.)
There's only 400,000 members, as compared with MySpace's tens of millions people ... and that has been my major gripe with MySpace: with so many bands and individuals in their system, and not having the best search ability, you can literally get lost in the sea. The only way I could make my MySpace page more interactive is by putting Jexdon, my chatbot, on it (and even that wasn't without glitches ... the page also shows some of his code. %^$@!!!).
As more big artists -- such as Duran Duran (whose new album is being produced by Timbaland(!!)) and Suzanne Vega using the medium to promote themselves and keep their presence fresh, count on a flurry of others to follow suit.
This is great! If you haven't done so as yet, join it!
