Is SecondLife the new MySpace?

Canadian blogger and technology writer Mathew Ingram flags up this thought here:
Link: Forget MySpace — move the band to Second Life » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work.

While HitWise gives us a nice 'high and to the right' graph of site metrics.

Link: Heather Hopkins - Hitwise UK: Second Life Visits Double in Two Months.