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  Brooklyn's Progress June/July 2007 - Cashing In On Virtual Worlds Back to Brooklyn's Progress Online  
Brooklyn Chamber Member Donald Schwartz of Imagelink Productions, a full-service Web branding company, attended the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference in Manhattan in March 2007, where he explored the potential uses for small business of 3D environments inhabited by "avatars," or the virtual representation of an Internet user (as in computer games, etc.). Click here to read the article.  The image to the left shows the author at home in Brooklyn and in the virtual world where he moonlights as Austen Scanlan.
An avatar uses Second Life entrepreneur Andy Fundiger’s comment ball to communicate with the real world via voice and e-mail.
Second Life’s Adeen Beaumont (Jennifer Schwartz in the real world) takes the skates of John Bouchard (Second Life’s Moopf Murphy) for an aerial test drive.
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