Six Kids and a Full Time Job: Google Earth as a Virtual World

"Heard an interesting rumor today from an academic who heard through the PhD grapevine...Google is working on turning Google Earth into a virtual world a la SecondLife (full disclosure: Benchmark investment) . That would be an interesting development both for Google. After hearing this, I was struck by the language on the Google Earth website: 'One more step to creating a life-like 3-D model of the whole planet..'"