TAMPA — After previous stops in New York, San Francisco and Chicago, the Second Life Community Convention steps into reality at the Tampa Marriott Waterside the weekend of Sept. 5.
It’s visiting a city that already has had its share of entrepreneurs who have jumped into a realm only the Internet, and maybe even a little science fiction on the side, could create.
Tim O’Connor is one.
A software development manager for Catalina Marketing in St. Petersburg, O’Connor spends his evenings as Persephone Milk, a cartoon-like virtual representation of himself who can interact with others in the three-dimensional world of Second Life. As the head of Musical Alchemy, O’Connor’s Persephone sells animated pianos for $8 each, constructed from nothing more than pixels and lines of computer programming.
