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IBM, Linden Labs Call For Portable Avatars

Posted by kdawson on from the door-from-sl-to-google-earth dept.

destinyland writes "IBM just announced a push for universal avatars with Second Life's creator Linden Labs. Then they joined Google, Cisco, Intel, Sony, Microsoft, and Motorola for the first planning session on how to make it happen. There's already speculation that Google is working on a 3-D social networking environment incorporating Google Earth and Google Maps." Virtual Worlds News has up a copy of the joint press release.

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  1. Just what we need by The_Mystic_For_Real · · Score: 4, Insightful
    More ways to trace you online, from the guys that brought online stalking to the mainstream.

    Different identification at different sites cuts down on spamming, trolling, phishing, everything bad out there.

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    Thank you.