And Anshe Gets Some More Money.

Yeah, I know, not real news there - but According to 3PointD's article Anshe Chung Draws Venture Capital Investment:

Anshe Chung Studios, which produces digital content and services for virtual worlds like Second Life, IMVU and others, has drawn a round of funding from New York venture capital firm Gladwyne Partners, who were early investors in the Electric Sheep Company...

Good for Anshe, no doubt. The question is whether this will be good for... the rest of the metaverse. I'm ambivalent; I don't base my success or failure on the success of others. I don't think anyone else should. Yet, when things such as the 10 L Fiasco pop up, it affects content creators and others who are trying to do their own thing - or so they think. Again, I'm ambivalent because I don't see it as a problem - but what I think isn't really as important as what the community thinks. And the community does have a voice, as they demonstrated here.

Whatever the amount, I do hope Anshe spends it wisely. I don't know if spending it wisely should include investing in fictional stocks on fictional exchanges as 'Third Party', but - the key to this phase of Second Life could well be labeled Take The Money And Run Ends/Second Life 2.0. While the large businesses focus on some things, the smaller businesses focus on others... and the major media and the blogs that they pay attention to seem to have lost the pulse of the small and medium enterprises in their attempt to garner large business support.

Maybe that has been their mistake all along. OpenSim keeps looking better and better to me because of it.