This turned out to be quite a day for virtual worlds' publicity, with both Google's Lively and Vivaty Scenes launching (congrats to both), and Second Life annoucing an interop with OpenSim together with IBM. All of that is great, and validates the concept of web-based, interoperable virtual worlds supporting and interacting with other web content (and vice versa), and supports our own thoughts nicely. There's plenty of room here for more players! I'd love to write more on this, but with my last work week before summer vacations keeping me quite busy right now, I'm afraid I don't have the energy to put my thoughts down to a publishable shape. Perhaps later, though. I'm sure I will have a lot of interesting discussion about the whole scene in GCDC next month, as well. Look me up if you're reading this and plan to be there!

(oh yeah, sorry about the horrible pun in the title)