Socially|Mundane

So the big hoopla large-sum prize and contest first announced way back when is now underway. It's not your typical contest. I liken it to the "X-Prize" - a super-high-tech invention contest for creating the first working public space...ship... or whatever.

This contest is a bit high-ended like that. it's not the kind of thing you can just look at and think to yourself "huh, I can do that. I think I'll have a go."

Okay, this is some real big-bucks. As much as half the amount many Second Life residents make in real life in a year. Obviously, Linden Lab, like all other big-bucks contest sponsors, is in this for their own good.

They are looking for that killer-application that will help catapult Second Life Grid technology into the forefront of telecommuting in business, home and any other which way you can think of.

Announcing the $10,000 Linden Prize « Official Second Life Blog: "The Linden Prize will award one Second Life Resident or team with $10,000 USD, paid in Linden dollars, for an innovative inworld project that improves the way people work, learn and communicate in their daily lives outside of the virtual world. The award is intended to align with Linden Lab’s company mission–to connect all people to an online world that advances the human condition."

This is something that will take some serious brain-power in creativity and the logistical / intellectual sense, and I truly wish "may the best team win."
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