Two new words to add to you glossary:

Metanomics: Metanomics is the study of business and policy in the "metaverse" of virtual worlds.

Intraverse: Private virtual world - as in IBM's internal Active Worlds environment.

Both of these stem from a series of mixed reality events in Second Life put on by The Johnson School at Cornell University and Metaversed.com. Nick Wilson (57 Miles in SL) has also setup the Metanomics website where you can participate in pre and post-event analysis.

I've been involved with the series because SLCN.TV has been covering the sessions. For anyone looking at virtual worlds as a platform for business or commercial activites, these sessions are required viewing.

Thursday's talk by IBM's Sandra Kearney turned into a tri-world mixed reality mashup event. The presentation was great, and SLCN's coverage pointed the spotlight at how merging different virtual worlds is not as far away as perhaps thought. IBM's Ian Hughes wrote about his experience as his avatar was present in Second Life and IBM's private Active Worlds at the same time while watching Sandra's presentation from Cornell.

This is a lot to think about, and as Wiz suggested - we may need to get the university's philosophy department involved to explain the experience. Many present in the Second Life audience were having fun with the concepts they were witnessing. See the Metanomics sessions for yourself on the archives at SLCN.TV.

more to come.