My employer just launched a gallery in the Second Life virtual game world. While much of what we do at the Corbis IT department is the usual grind of financial, HR and other back end system, we do get to innovate and implement cool stuff that show how media and creative services are evolving in the 21st Century.

Here is some of the press on the launch...

Corbis Opens Second Life Gallery

Selling Stock
August 29, 2007
By Julia Dudnik Stern

http://www.selling-stock.com/?p=2083

Corbis has announced that it has opened a gallery in the three-dimensional virtual world of Second Life, the online game that has grown to more than 9 million residents since its birth in 2003.

The Insider: Corbis builds A virtual Art gallery in Second Life
Seattle Post Intelligencer
September 2, 2007

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/330048_theinsider03.html

Seattle stock image provider Corbis has opened a gallery in Second Life, an increasingly popular online virtual world.

Twa Corbis
Second Life Insider
August 30, 2007

By Akela Talamasca

http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2007/08/30/twa-corbis/

Corbis, the famed professional stock photography company, has opened up a gallery in SL, and for once, it's not commerce-based.

Corbis get a Second Life
BAPLA (UK)
August 30, 2007

http://www.bapla.org/news/index.php?a=show&id=918&from=

Corbis announced that they will be setting up a virtual gallery space in Second Life. The space will showcase collections from Corbis Motion, Corbis Rights Services and the SnapVillage microstock collection as well as providing information on the Corbis Rights-clearing services. Technorati tag: Corbis, Second+Life