AjaxLife is an web application that lets you use Second Life in your web browser. Well…sort of. It lets you chat with friends, and reposition yourself (‘teleport’) throughout the SL universe, and that’s about it. Nonetheless, people are excited about it. Could it be that more than a few SL users are disgruntled with the slow speed of Linden’s servers?
More info here, and an interview with the (15 year old!) creator, Katharine Berry, here.