By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

Now I’ve seen everything (all right, I still have plenty of time left, so maybe not) :-) . Dell has opened a Second Life store, there are car dealers in Second Life, we’ve seen Reuters open a news bureau and companies have press conferences there. Now Second Life is getting its first embassy.

Sweden plans to be the first country to open an embassy in popular virtual world Second Life. “It will have answers to questions on all aspects of Sweden,” Olle Wastberg, general director of the Swedish Institute, an organization which promotes the country’s image abroad, said on Tuesday. Source: MSNBC

We Say: Does this mean if my avatar walks into the embassy I’m on Swedish soil? Will Swedish guards have to have avatars and “play them” to guard the embassy? (Yes, all tongue-in-cheek) :-) I’ve said before maybe I should check this world out … on the other hand, maybe things are getting out of hand.