Startup to Provide Second Life Ratings

March 7, 2007 By RACHEL KONRAD, AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- A startup billing itself as the Better Business Bureau for virtual worlds wants to provide a rating system for avatars - players' online representations - in "Second Life."

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