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It is an odd coincidence that while Mr Wallace is away in Brazil, I have become aware of a new Linden Labs initiative - Second Life Brazil. Since late 2006 there has been an influx of Brazillians entering Second Life, prompted by coverage on Brazillian TV. However, there has been a language barrier, which the new initiative addresses. Brazillian partners Kaizen Games, a major distributor of online and PC games, and iG, Brasil Telecom’s internet service provider, will be delivering a Portuguese language version of Second Life, allowing many more Brazillians to participate. Their target is to attract some 2 million new residents in the first year.
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Kudos to CNet writer Dan Terdiman for his scoop of the report that’s been emerging from the Metaverse Roadmap summit we attended last spring. Dan has a nice story up today on a draft version of the report he obtained. It doesn’t seem to be online yet, nor has it been distributed to participants (of which I was one), so I can’t link it for you, but check out Dan’s story, as well as some of last spring’s coverage for an idea of what it contains. I’ll blog it some more once I see it myself. Which will probably be sometime next week, as I have a wedding to go to tomorrow in Rio, though this seemed worth taking a moment to blog. Let me know what you think if you see it before I do.