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By Lorelei Second Life 101 Technical Skills for Virtual World Librarians Introduction to Virtual World Librarianship Working with a class in Second Life Setting Up an Educational Presence in Second Life Hot Topics - Governance in Virtual Worlds

By Stacia Where better to start Virtual Neko exploration than one of Second Life’s best and oldest RP sims… Midian City. When I first discovered Midian, I loved nothing more than to curl up on the steps of the central police precinct, furtively moving my ears to catch the idle chatter as all of Midian’...

 India - Also the Linden Dollars earned can be converted into real US Dollars. For instance, a women from the Philippines created a painting and selling it in SL, ...

By Eric Reuters Even as Linden Lab’s base of paying customers shrinks over the past year, the total hours spent by avatars inside Second Life has increased dramatically. In May of 2007 total usage of Linden Lab’s virtual world was about 20.8 million hours. A year later the number spiked to almost 32 million h...

By Eric Reuters But still, if this report indicates the way people — or at least some of them — at Linden Lab are thinking, it would be an interesting move for the company. The idea of Second Life on a cell phone has been bandied about for years, and if Second Life could be made to work on a game console it would rad...

 - Consider this another Second Life, but also throw in The Sims, your own social network and (if you still remember it). I spoke to the CEO of Vivaty, ...

By Prospero Linden The code to be deployed to Second Life is currently available on the “Second Life Beta Server” channel of the Preview Grid. If you wish to test the changes, and make sure that your objects or scripts work properly, follow the instructions for logging in to the Preview Grid. The new server vers...

 India - At least that's what it seems like because she is writing code for running a mass transit system in the virtual world of Second Life (SL). ...

 India - Second Life, the 3-D virtual world, started as a phenomenon where users could get a new avatar and live a life that they always wanted in the real world. ...

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) Today, a few NMC staff got to peek in on the rehearsal of what will be one of the most popular performances this summer on Second Life. And now, an international team of artists working with the Cybernetic Art Research Project (CARP) bring a unique vision and live performance of “The Wall” to...

By rikomatic The I Dig Tanzania summer camp participants finished the virtual portion of their program today. Here's a picture of our New York IDT participants posing with Mark Kingdon, the CEO of Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life. A dedicated...

By Liana Linden The LINDEN LAB INNOVATION AWARDS are for entertainment purposes only and have no monetary or other value. LINDEN LAB, LINDEN RESEARCH, and SECOND LIFE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc. We are now accepting nominations for the second annual Linden Lab Inno...

By Stone Culdesac Post from: The Grid Live Second Life News for July 2, 2008 From: AIDS.gov Second Life (Part 2 of “We Are Living in a Virtual World”) Quote from the site - This week we build on our June 10 post about virtual worlds and focus on the well-known site, Second Life. To better understand how Second [...]

 - How does ownership in Second Life work? I know residents can buy things, but does Linden Lab ultimately own the entire entity? Second Life users maintain ... Your Name Your Email Address Recipient's Email Address Newsweek all 2 news articles

 OR - With games like Everquest, World of Warcraft and Second Life having already convinced gamers that spending real money on virtual items is a perfectly sane ...

By Shawn That's strand one. Strand two: traditional archaeological VR: clean, antiseptic, disembodied: you can only experience it by looking at the pretty pictures. In SL, since you are embodied in an avatar, you can explore the experience of the space; space-syntax in the real world explores ho...

 MA - But through his look-alike avatar, Chambers predicted that the business use of technologies such as Second Life will eventually "explode. ...

Inventorspot  - Jun 27, 2008 The co-creator of Second Life made his pitch for the latter at a Freescale Semiconductor technology forum this week. Take a look at our weekly slideshow and ... Embarassed Teens Can Visit Doctor Online Inventorspot all 2 news articles

By SLHerald “Griefing can take many forms in Second Life, from shooting, bombing and pushing to more subtle forms such as intimidation, spamming and harassment. Griefers may be classified as follow: And the following blog with real-life cases is chilling enough to scare a hard core Second Lifer – ma...

By Shawn It will be a live presentation from within Second Life, if all goes according to plan. If not, I've already recorded a video presentation to be given in case of emergency, and I'm just waiting for Youtube to do its magic. It turned out to be much more difficult to make this video than I anticipat...

 UK - One team working in Second Life, led by Linden Lab's Jim Purbrick, constructed so-called "carbon goggles" - which let users see the carbon footprint of ...

 Australia - “So those images were mapped onto a cylinder in Second Life, the avatars can walk into the centre of these cylinders and they can see and experience the ...

By Jackson West A quick check of Alexa shows that traffic to the secondlife.com — where new users sign up and download the software — is flat if not down, and still well behind worldofwarcraft.com, which is nearly as old and far more popular. While Second Life allows you the freedom to do anything, and I mean an...

By Kristen Nicole IMVU’s 3D virtual chat world has been around for nearly four years and has recently reached the 20 million registered user milestone. Launching with avatars that can chat on its IM client in a virtual 3D environment, IMVU began to grow popular at the onset of a swelling interest in Web-base...

IMVU on Creating a World From the Avatar Up - Kotaku

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By Stone Culdesac During this years Second Life birthday celebrations (SL5B) one of the most highlighted communities in Second Life will present themselves on two highly entertaining and informative Sims. Thanks to the initial exclusion of the kid avatar community from SL5B by Linden Labs, individual...

By Mike Fahey Linden Lab Celebrates Second Life’s 5th Birthday With a Virtual World Fair January 5, 2006 - Second Life surpasses 100,000 registered Residents September 15, 2006 – Second Life surpasses 1,000,000 registered Residents March 26, 2007 – Second Life surpasses 5,000,000 registered Res...

By jonah I suppose it was only a matter of time before I experienced something within Second Life that caught my interest. Though I work on and study social software, I haven’t been particularly giddy about metaverses (multiplayer, persistent, 3D immersive environments) for a variety of reason...

By jonah One upside of my recent journeys is that I now appreciate the research going on in this area much better. Here are two pieces from the Chronicle of Higher Ed reporting on research going on at Stanford’s Virtual Human Interactions Lab: What Happens in a Virtual World Has a Real World Impact

 UK - Experts have already created photorealistic replicas of key parts of the campus, which will be used to deliver lectures and hold study groups with avatars, ... New Business Horizons Wins ‘Best Use of Technology’ Award Press Dispensary (press release) all 4 news articles

By Eric Reuters Average prices on Second Life’s volatile real estate market have fallen from L$11.5 per meter to under L$6 per meter in less than three months. To help shore up the market, Linden announced it was instituting a two-week freeze on additions to Second Life’s land supply.

 KY - Johnson believes the new ability to form a "dynamic company" will be in high demand this century—"even for corporations that exist only in Second Life," ...

By Stone Culdesac From: The Daily Reveille University establishes virtual presence in Second Life Quote from the site - A recent Internet phenomenon has taken universities, businesses and even the Federal Reserve by storm. Second Life, a virtual world created by Linden Research, Inc., allows people to c...

By Jessica Holyoke Linden Lab have been making great strides lately to show that Second Life Grid, which is what it says on my sign on screen, is their product.  But in a world that is imagined and created by their residents and customers, how much of it is their's?

By Eric Reuters SECOND LIFE, June 5 (Reuters) - “Hi, my name is Gracie, and I’m an alcoholic.” “I suggest, particularly to the newcomer, to get to RL AA,” Crighton J. said. But as a veteran of real world Alcoholics Anonymous, he’s found a community, friends, and support inside the virtual world.

By Eric Reuters SECOND LIFE, May 20 (Reuters) - Second Life has been touted as a place to market real-world brands, as a teleconferencing tool, and as the future of social networking. But increasingly, Hollywood has been eying the virtual world’s potential as an inexpensive film studio.

By Eric Reuters Avatars can file a complaint with Linden Lab under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act asking Linden Lab to remove pirate content from their servers. But Second Life residents have complained Linden’s follow-up to DMCA notices has been spotty at best.

By Eric Reuters caught up with Levine’s avatar Zha Ewry in Second Life to find out more. Teleport failures are a common gripe among avatars, and Linden is testing new methods to get avatars from place to place in its “Preview Grid.” With a little coding, Levine got Linden’s Preview Grid computers to send him...

By leezacatteneo This week, I met a person I always recognized as one of the Top Models in Second Life - Poptart Lilliehook. I knew her name from my first days in the fashion world of Second Life. I saw her at many big shows but never talked to her. I think that was one of the reasons I really enjoyed meeting her. She sho...

By Stone Culdesac Post from: The Grid Live Second Life News for June 2, 2008 From: Linux Insider The Tangible Value of Virtual Money Quote from the site - The Linden Dollar, Second Life’s currency, may not have much value — it takes 270 of them to equal a U.S. dollar — but it forms the basis of an [...]

By aplink – M Linden - Second Life Blog I doubt his jump into fantasy by being a tray of donuts will last very long, for real commerce to be achieved lifelike avatars are highly desirable - check out the upcoming more real world twinity. New CEO’s First Week Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 4:50 PM by: M Linden...

And, most companies will come into virtual worlds after people/users come into virtual worlds. Nao: I think… “3D chat rooms and lite weight 3D and “walled garden virtual worlds” are just services. Second Life and other CREATIVE virtual worlds are next infrastructure for the internet.

By Eric Reuters On one level, griefing attacks can be undeniably funny. But the phenomena has emerged as a problem for the virtual worlds industry. While Second Life is a favorite arena for griefing stunts, other virtual worlds like EVE Online and Habbo Hotel have also wrestled with organized antisocial...

By Stone Culdesac From: Virtual Africa Respecting Land Owners in Second Life… Quote from the site - Have you spoken to a few owners of virtual land in Second Life (R) the past month or two? In developing a new media strategy and virtual world presence, we follow the trends as closely as possible, and it is with...

By Jeff Young Cory Ondrejka, the co-founder of the virtual world Second Life who is now a visiting professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, said in a speech today that virtual worlds are here to stay, and that professors are among the most active pi...

By Aleister Kronos Is this site any good? To be diplomatic, I think it is rather 'disappointing'. It has limited content, the interactivity is dull and lifeless, and the whole place feels rather disjointed. It is very much like most company promotional sims - and like most such sims, is unlikely to show any ret...

By creaky15 All photos in this blog post courtesy of Second Life® and Linden Lab® which are trademarks or registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc. Copyright 2008 - All rights reserved. No infringement is intended. Those who visit this blog frequently may have noticed that a new masthead appeare...

By Nic Mitham A few days ago Nesquik launched into Second Life onto the Activ8 island. For anyone who didn’t know, Nesquik is a milk flavouring product owned by Nestle and promoted primarily using the Nesquik bunny. At the venue, QuikSk8 Park, the focus is clearly about having fun, with free skateboards...

By Chino Yray Free Linden Dollars: New to Second Life? Looking for hassle-free Linden Dollars? I’ve listed a summary of where you can get free lindens in Second Life without camping for long hours, no escort service needed and most of all, no need to get a boring job. (I don?t like women or even guys preten...

Pet Shop Boys to play live in Second Life  Belgium - The online virtual world Second Life is hosting a free festival through their site on Saturday 30th June. This will be the first festival of its kind and a ...

For folks following the copyright intellectual property implications in the gaming industry, Second Life is facing its first real crisis when it comes to the value of in game goods, copyright, liability and just plain old copying.