Ok, so what is the link?
2nd Life (if you don’t know, this is the virtual world where you can take on the personality of an “avatar” and move around a virtual world and interact with others – and of course you can build things, and actually make real money!) – the link is http://secondlife.com/
Anyway, skype as most people now know, is a VOIP style messaging service which allows you to instant message, and most commonly, call people to talk to them – either free to other skype users, or of course a very small amount to call “real” telephone numbers.
So what is the link?
Well, 2nd life has take the skype idea, and gone virtual with it.. so now you can interact with someone else virtually, but also actually talk to them… spooky, but it seems one of those “next steps” that seems to be happening…
Read more here http://gigaom.com/2009/05/19/second-life-takes-aim-at-skype/