I’ve deleted the SecondLife client from my home Mac. Freeing 160MB of disk space which I desperately needed. So that was it. The end of last year’s biggest tech hype has reached my home. Actually, it was over before it even started. Never came far beyond installation, choosing a phony nickname, creating an avatar that looked worse than me on a Monday morning and walking around the default island. SecondLife lacked ease-of-use, attractive design, a stable desktop client and above all a real benefit for the user. Hailed as the coming of the “New Internet”, it didn’t live up to the hype, never served a real purpose and in the end lost its users quarter way into it.

But hey, it was a spectacular PR success. Let’s see who or what will be able to match it.