Not sure about all this Second Life stuff...

Based on my post earlier this week on Second Life, I’ve gotten some feedback from readers and colleagues, and I’m still undecided as to how chips will be made or sold through this medium. Our Contributing Editor Colleen Taylor came across this analysis by market research firm Gartner, which sheds some balanced light on the risks.

There’s no doubt this is a social phenonemon, but will the security risks be too high for businesses to implement this in their organizations if it is not hosted behind a corporate firewall? And I think the jury is still out on how customers are perceiving interactions with suppliers through Second Life.

I’m still curious, and would like to hear from you, if you are a chip designer and are using Second Life in your engineering efforts in any way. Please email me at ann.mutschler@reedbusiness.com or comment below.

–Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor