Phildelphia Future Salon - Second Life Virtual World Entrepreneurs November 8, 2006

FUTURE SALON TOPIC:
Live interactive Second Life presentation on virtual worlds design and entrepreneurship with Tim Allen and Jennifer Vatza from www.SLBoutique.com. Slboutique.com is the largest developer and provider of goods in Second Life and was acquired by WA DC-based 3D web developer Electric Sheep Company earlier this year.

FUTURE SALON SPEAKERS:
Tim "Flipper Peregrine" Allen
Jennifer "Jennyfur Peregrine" Vatza

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world started in 2003 by San Francisco-based Linden Lab. Users can sign up for free and create avatars to represent themselves. Second Life just surpassed 1,000,000 resident accounts, about a third of which have been active in the last 60 days. $7m USD worth of transactions has been occurring in-world each month since July.

COST: Free and open to the public. No registration necessary.

NEXT MEETING:
Tues., Jan. 9, 2007

THE SALON:
The Philadelphia Future Salon is part of a nationwide network of future salons discussing cutting edge science and technology innovations and their implications: http://accelerating.org/futuresalon.html

Official Website: http://groups.google.com/group/PhiladelphiaFutureSalon