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Photos: Penguin flies into Second Life

Taking Twitter mash-ups and William Gibson along for the ride

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By Steve Ranger

Published: 20 July 2007 12:53 GMT


Becoming a good citizen could be the best way for businesses to get the most out of virtual worlds.

In the next few weeks publishing house Penguin is running a series of events around the launch of the new novel by the father of cyberpunk, William Gibson - such as placing containers like the one above in-world.

Photo credit: Second Life/Linden Lab


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