PAUL CARR

Una buena introducción al mundo virtual de Second Life.Todos sabemos qué es Second Life, ¿verdad? ¡¿No?! Bueno, pues imaginad un mundo en que se puedan comprar terrenos por menos de un euro y donde las unicas restricciones para edificar la casa soñada sean las que os impone vuestra imaginacion. Lo mismo con todo lo demas. Second Life es, claro esta, una segunda vida donde explorar y hacer realidad tanto los sueños que quereis cumplir en vuestra vida real como los que son imposibles de conseguir. Es un destino turistico online donde podreis comprar ropa de diseñadores virtuales y asistir a un concierto virtual de U2; todo ello, y mas, antes de volver al avion privado en compañia de un nuevo amigo o amiga para tomar un cafe o... bueno, os lo podeis imaginar. Este libro es una guia rapida y divertida que servira para conocer, a quienes lo esten empezando a visitar, las maravillas virtualmente infinitas de este mundo online apasionante donde los cambios se producen a una velocidad vertiginosa. Todo Second Life esta aqui, incluyendo: - Lo esencial: consejos de primera para los nuevos residentes. - La gente: como encontrar colegas con los que congeniar... o a tu alma gemela. -Lugares fundamentales que hay que visitar: puntos turisticos ineludibles, tiendas y espectaculos.

Having covered the first dot com boom, and founded a web-to-print publishing business during the second one, Paul counts many of the leading Internet entrepreneurs amongst his closest friends. These friendships mean he doesn't just attend their product launches and press conferences and speak at their events, but also gets invited to their ultra-exclusive networking events, and gets drunk at their parties. Paul has enjoyed this bizarre world of excess without having to live in it. To help the moguls celebrate raising millions of pounds of funding without having to face the wrath of the venture capitalists himself. But in 2006, Paul decided he didn't want to be a spectator any more. He had been harbouring a great dot com project of his own and decided it was time to do something about it.

A fascinating and hilarious expose of how a group of young opportunists, chancers and geniuses found instant fame and fortune by messing about on the web. And one mans attempt to follow in their footsteps.Having covered the first dot com boom, and founded a web-to-print publishing business during the second one, Paul counts many of the leading Internet entrepreneurs amongst his closest friends. These friendships mean he doesnt just attend their product launches and press conferences and speak at their events, but also gets invited to their ultra-exclusive networking events, and gets drunk at their parties.Paul has enjoyed this bizarre world of excess without having to live in it. To help the moguls celebrate raising millions of pounds of funding without having to face the wrath of the venture capitalists himself. But in 2006, Paul decided he didnt want to be a spectator any more. He had been harbouring a great dot com project of his own and decided it was time to do something about it.

The incredible true story of living as a modern-day nomad.Bored, broke and struggling to survive in one of the most expensive cities on earth, Paul Carr realises that it would actually be cheaper to live in a hotel in Manhattan than in his one-bedroom London flat. Inspired by that possibility, he decides to sell most of his possessions, abandon his old life and spend a year living entirely without commitments.Thanks to Pauls highly developed blagging skills, what begins as a one-year experiment soon becomes a permanent lifestyle - a life lived in luxury hotels and mountain-top villas. A life of fast cars, Hollywood actresses and Icelandic rock stars. And, most bizarrely of all, a life that still costs less than surviving on cold pizza in London. Yet, as word of Pauls exploits starts to spread - first online, then through a newspaper column and a book deal - he finds himself forced to up the stakes in order to keep things interesting. With his behaviour spiralling to dangerous levels, he is forced to ask the question: is there such a thing as too much freedom?