Linden Lab laying off 30% of staff, Second Life to be browser-based in future (geek.com)

Or maybe its the ipodization of the web where you no longer hop from web site to web site but suck the apps to your browser as you like.

For what it is worth having meetings in second life were much better then the dial in meetings I have done for years. All sitting around in a circle looking at the person talking and the software easily handled many different people. Not sure if it also did direction audio or not, but I never had a problem knowing who was talking or make a gesture to know I wanted to comment on the current conversation.

Downside (maybe): half the people show up as funny creatures :)