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Second Life - A person can never have too many addictions.

How did the existence of this wonderful creation elude me over the last two years? A huge thanks goes out to Doug Kaye and IT Conversations for a recent show that appeared in my iPodder client a few weeks ago. That episode featured Cory Ondrejka from Linden Labs - the creators of the Second Life world. Although I'm still very much a newbie in the Second Life world - it's a fantastic experiment in online social interactions of people in virtual communities.

It's not so much a game per say, but instead an entire virtual world where there is almost no limit to what you can do or create - including a fully functional in-world economy along with a complete set of tools to build anything you can conceive.

There is a free seven day trial available to both PC and Mac users, and if nothing else, I highly recommend giving that particular IT Conversations show a listen - you might just learn a thing a two.