Studio Wikitecture, Virtual Ability Win Real Life Prize for Second Life Projects

Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life (the Twitter of 2005), has announced the winners of the inaugural Linden Prize, which honors “Second Life projects that have a tangible impact on the real world.” Unable to choose just one winner, Linden Lab has awarded two $10,000 prizes: to Studio Wikitecture and Virtual Ability. “How do you measure the value of a project? Should making a deep impact on a select group of individuals weigh heavier than making an impact on a large population? Ultimately that wasn’t a question we could answer, so we decided to honor both projects,” said Linden Lab CEO Mark Kingdon in a