Duncan Riley wrote about his recent experiences at TPN’s HQ in Second Life today which is worth a read (link). It includes this screenshot of a spontaneous meetup we had a few days ago.

Duncan’s post is about the combination of using Twitter and Second Life for spontaneous meetups. We’ve been noticing over the last week that if we mention in Twitter that one or two of us are hanging out at TPN HQ, within minutes we have 10 - 20 people show up. And then we sit around having a group VOICE chat for several hours. I’ve never seen anything like it in my 12 years on the net. Duncan sums it up:

The ability to join and discuss anything in Second Life delivers something between a Barcamp or Podcamp, and a discussion at your local bar (or pub) amongst friends. I’ve read elsewhere suggestions that people who spend time in Second Life are sad; to that I can only respond: married with children. Whilst my wife was catching the latest episodes of America’s Next Top Model (streamed over the home network on a Zensonic Z500…which is probably pretty geeky) and my son was asleep I participated in a virtual recreation of many a good blog meetup or barcamp, and better still it was spontaneous.

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