NEWS: Second Life Adding Web to User Profiles

News/Social Network/Second Life/Mark Wallace
Found on: 3pointd.com

Christian of the Electric Sheep Company sends news that Linden Lab, makers of the virtual world of Second Life, will soon allow users to display Web pages in their in-world profiles. According to this blog post from one Linden developer, a new tab will soon be added to users’ profiles (as seen above) that will load from a URL field. “This feature should make it out sometime after this coming release, and to a public preview before then,” according to the post.

While it’s not Web on a prim (a feature that would allow multiple users to view the same Web page displayed on an object in the world itself), it would allow people to more easily perform Web-based functions from within Second Life. Cookies and password fields may not be supported (either at first or at all), so browsing will be limited in power, but one problem with SL at the moment is the task of disseminating information. Being able to load your profile with information is one kluge for this.