Aeonix Aeon popped up on my friends list recently and I discovered that his recent absence from Second Life was due the pressures of authorship.

Here’s the blip from his blog:

“Just released by IGI Global is the culmination of extraordinary efforts from a collaboration of some of the brightest minds in the industry. Virtual Worlds and E-commerce: Technologies and Applications for Building Customer Relationships. Author/Editor Dr. Barbara Ciaramitaro (Walsh College, USA), gathered an amazing group of industry experts to author this groundbreaking and insightful book, bringing it to the public.

“The book presents various ideas on how the use of digitally created worlds is changing the face of e-commerce and extending the use of internet technologies to create a more immersive experience for customers. Containing current research on various aspects of the use of virtual worlds, this book includes a discussion of the elements of virtual worlds; the evolution of e-commerce to virtual commerce (v-commerce); the convergence of online games and virtual worlds; current examples of virtual worlds in use by various businesses, the military, and educational institutions; the economics of virtual worlds: discussions on legal, security and technological issues facing virtual worlds; a review of some human factor issues in virtual worlds; and the future of virtual worlds and e-commerce.”

Join us to chat with Virtual Worlds Expert, Technology Trend Forecaster, Founder of Andromeda Media Group and author, Aeonix Aeon [Will Burns], a truly interesting person to talk to about virtual worlds and how they are/will affect our lives.

You can join us in Second life for this event or watch it on our web site where it will be streamed live from the Studio.

The Metanomics Community Forum takes place every Thursday at 12pm SLT/ PST in Second Life at the Metanomics Studio.

If you are unable to join us in Second Life, the program will also be broadcast to the web, complete with a chatbridge link so that you can participate in the conversation: Metanomics Community Forum Live.