The weblin gate in the press:

Currently, it’s not uncommon for a person to have several avatars for various sites, similar to how some people have profiles on more than one social network.

Until now, what happened in a virtual world stayed inside that virtual world, but recently a German company called Weblin created a system that allows Second Life users to transplant a copy of their character into other websites and transport it around the Web.

Already, Facebook and MySpace are working with partner sites to allow their members to use a single profile across a breadth of websites. It’s only a matter of time before experts are talking about the next step and allowing users to use a single avatar across the Web to stroll through Second Life and then traipse through a virtual storefront on another site.

There will be software compatibility and copyright issues to work out, but it’s a conversation that’s bound to come up.

from 2009: The big ideas

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