Lifenaut is a fascinating service that allows you to create an interactive avatar based on the information you provide. Getting the information into your profile involves an extensive web-based dashboard set-up that you could easily spend hours configuring. At the end of it you’ve created a ‘mindfile’ that drives your avatar’s behaviour.

Aside from the avatar-based approach of Lifenaut, a further virtual world hook is the recent introduction to Lifenaut that occurred in Second Life at their New User Center. A ‘universal avatar’ is something desirable in some people’s eyes and services like Lifenaut will attract some interest if they manage to keep in sync with interoperability developments in virtual worlds.

Check it out in-world.