Aimee Weber Studio Inc. has provided services for several real-world business, including National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,[1] United Nations,[2] American Cancer Society,[3] American Apparel,[4] Warner Bros.,[5] NBC[6] and Save the Children.
Referred to as the "Rockefeller of Second Life"[8] by a CNN journalist, she has built an online business that engages in development, brokerage, and arbitrage of virtual land, items, and currencies, and has been featured in a number of prominent magazines such as Business Week,[9] Fortune[10] and Red Herring.
[21] The Electric Sheep Company is a design, building and scripting firm that creates content for three-dimensional online worlds.
[22] Originating in Second Life, they have done work on the Virtual Laguna Beach project for MTV,[23][24] Aloft Hotels,[25] and Sony BMG Music,[26] as well as creating the OnRez version fork of the client software.
Due to the difficulty in regulating "companies" that trade on the exchange, there have been a number of "CEOs" who have run off with IPO funds, leaving investors with nothing.