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Amid low traffic and raunchy behavior, American Apparel and Starwood Hotels are a couple of the big brands that have pulled out of Second Life recently. Linden wants to keep others from jumping ship, since it makes money selling plots of land for as much as $1,675 apiece and charging owners $295 monthly usage fees. Some corporate outposts have figured out how to engage users and get valuable feedback. One of Second Life's big selling points, says Cory Ondreijka, Linden's chief technology officer, is "this porousness with information flowing in both directions." The site's financial success...
...market-research firm Gartner predicted that by the end of 2011, 80% of active Internet users will have some sort of presence in a virtual world, with Second Life currently one of the most populous. Business Week last fall put on the cover a real estate agent whose virtual land deals made her the first person to earn $1 million through the site, and TIME included Second Life creator Philip Rosedale in this year's list of the world's 100 most influential people. Even NBA commissioner David Stern now has a Second Life avatar, although he told TIME...
...land at Chrysler...
...amour? After decades as one of cinema's favorite subjects and centuries as the engine of novels and songs, romance faces a cold shoulder as a subject worthy of our attention. The recent movie calendar is pockmarked with the craters of little romantic bombs (Catch and Release, In the Land of Women...
Ross has grand plans for IUON and hopes to make it the largest nursing school in the world. He has sunk at least $10 million into the 50,000-sq.-ft. (4,600 sq m) campus on 10 acres (4 hectares) of land in gorgeous St. Kitts. Ross has attracted more than 20 faculty members from the U.S. with competitive salaries of $70,000 to $80,000 a year, plus overseas tax breaks. "The island life is definitely a bonus," says assistant provost Frank Wagner...