SecondLife Doomed?

Reading MySpace, Second Life, and Twitter Are Doomed , there was a lot of 'duh' when it came to MySpace. In many ways, MySpace seems to be the opiate of those who couldn't find any more Microsoft Frontpage - which is not a bad thing, but it is necessarily ugly and has given other technologies a chance to mature into more user friendly ghosts of what they need to be. I'm referring to content management systems.

Plus, everyone got their 15 Megabits of fame from MySpace. Twitter I won't comment on because I haven't used it and have felt no urge to. It is named too much like what I think of a small muscle spasm. I can't take it seriously, and if I did I would go to see a doctor.

SecondLife. Yeah, SecondLife. Here's what Lance Ulanoff had to say:

...Second Life could just as easily be the first to go. No one believes its reported participation numbers anymore, even though big companies, such as Circuit City and IBM, have built virtual stores (and Playboy is jumping in with both, er, feet this month). Some individuals are even claiming to make real-world money in there, but are they really? Frankly, I think Second Life is the equivalent of a virtual con. There's no doubt that it's enjoyed startling growth in the last year and a half, but that was driven, for the most part, by the laudatory press and media coverage it received. Companies herded like sheep to the platform, because they believed the hype. So did users. But reality is finally starting to trump perception. Companies' virtual stores sit empty, and there's no way they can measure if they're building any additional brand recognition simply by being there.

Of course, they're not...

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