We've seen a small Facebook widget appear last year in which you could linkup with your Second Life friends, an attempt to integrate Second Life with Joomla, but now the integration takes a step forward as Tribal One integrates Facebook and OpenSim in a first step towards a new approach to 3D/Web integrationДЄs usual, UgoTrade, has a very extensive and thorough blog on this integration: Think of the power of integrating Second Life with Flickr, Blogger, YouTube, Twitter/pownce and Facebook all in one!' Just over a year ago I wrote: 'One of the great features of Kaneva is the personal homepage that you get as a resident - a good start to integrate Web 2.0 and Web 3D into one environment. I've mentioned integration a number of times in the articles here on MindBlizzard and in presentations I did in the past year and a half. to enhance the social power of their virtual world. I think I've mentioned Kaneva in the past as pioneering this with their user profiles with blogging, etworking features etc.

If Virtual Worlds are to stand more than a ' snowballs' chance in hell' in this web 2.0 battle for numbers they have to bridge the gap. In this day and age these social networks are in charger of the internet with Facebook, Myspace etc. Virtual Worlds such as Second Life are still mainly social worlds, used for social interaction for certain special interest groups and in this regard they are a mere 3D Chat addition to social networks. In my opinion the key lies in integration with mainstream and social networking tools. They don't hold the power to overturn the internet yet and become mainstream applications. Yet NVE's are still a niche market and have obviously failed as marketing tools. Many will agree that Virtual Worlds are wonderful tools when it comes to visualising hard to explain stuff and offer a range of quite useful possibilities.

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