Second Life

By nkipar My presentation will draw on the presentation I did with MACS lecturer pal this year and it looks at some of the findings of last year’s project in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences. Fourth year and MSc students on a Multimedia Design course learned a range of technical and c...

By rikomatic I arrived today for the Second Life Community Convention and the Second Life Education Community Conference 200, being held at the lovely Marriott in Tampa, Florida.  Although the festivities don't officially start tomorrow, SLers are already here in force, soaking up the free wifi in...

By Doriano "Paisano" Carta Armani in Second Life Second Life Gets Identity Verification The Future Of Linden Lab Following Executive Shuffle Second Life Teams Up With IBM for Virtual World Interoperability New App Merges Facebook and Second Life Does Second Life Need a Reuters Office?

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By pkab In Second Life I have experienced the possibility to create a map lies them 3D collaborativa, not fine to if same, but that it allows the development of an idea from more persons in real time. On the Island of Lipari you will be able to come to find to me and to ask a copy to me for this tool that I wil...

Linden Lab, which operates virtual world Second Life, announced the launch of SLim, a lightweight, voice-enabled instant messaging client that lets users talk to buddies beyond Second Life's virtual borders. Previously, users could only communicate with friends "in-world," or log...

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By Jackson West macbeach: I honestly appreciate that input. But until I see something with Bioshock's clarity and artistry in the space, I'm skeptical. That said, I've been willingly suckered into World of Warcraft, which has relatively crappy but ...

By SLHerald Second Life resident Bobzorin Cortes tells us in a lengthy press release that there will be a live broadcast of КАТЯ ЧЕХОВА - Katya Chekhova - in Second Life from Moscow, Moscow Island to celebrate the Moscow City Day and “Anniversary of the official opening of virtual capital of Russia”. I...

By SLHerald What’s new? This very unpopular, scary issue is going official with a ticket on JIRA - the metaverse residents’ only way of asking for help from the game gods. Activist Unite are hoping for your vote, in hopes of convincing the superpowers at Linden Labs to take this problem seriously. That w...

By Joe Linden SLim further lowers the barriers between virtual world and real world communication and ensures that you’ll always be able to connect with your Second Life friends regardless of location or broadband connection. Capable of running on any computer, SLim will extend the value and experi...

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By Jackson West With support for Mac users, a new Facebook widget and an instant messaging application, There.com is hoping to breathe some life into its 3D virtual world which has gone largely unnoticed for years since its launch in 2003. If publicity could support a business model, Second Life might not...

By Doriano "Paisano" Carta Second Life Teams Up With IBM for Virtual World Interoperability Virtual Worlds London: Save 15% on the October Event Save the Date for Virtual Worlds Forum Europe Myrl is a SocNet for your Virtual World Avatars On-Demand Streaming for Second Life

By Caine Constantine Socrates Linden: The ruling party is me and my ban button. No others. Socrates Linden: This isn't a democracy. It's about enforcement of Terms of Service. Socrates Linden: I'm afraid not Grey. Socrates Linden: You cannot have any rules that go above the TOS…period.

By Jessica Holyoke There are a number of theories flying back and forth regarding the state of the Second Life economy, with some advocating for less regulation as a means to make the economy flourish, and others arguing that the performance of a company is the same thing as a virtual world's economy. The bott...

By ahgonghippo Kimberly Jernigan, 33, started a virtual relationship with a man on Second Life. There, she played as a female avatar and he a lion. She had difficulty distinguishing between the virtual relationship and a real-life relationship,' he said.

By Eric Reuters SECOND LIFE, August 12 (Reuters) - Doug Thompson loved Second Life from the start, but there was one aspect he hated — its notoriously clunky user interface. With three vetted ideas for improving Second Life’s interface, it may be hard to extract the best ideas out of them.

By Ciaran Laval There are times when it seems to me that some of the ills of Second Life could be dealt with by Linden Lab engaging more with their very own residents. However in order to do that, they're likely to cause a furore and put noses out of joint.

By Jackson West A 52-year old man from Claymont, DE was surprised in his home by a taser-wielding Kimberly Jernigan, whom he had dumped months before shortly after they first meet in an attempt to flesh out a Second Life love affair. Jernigan fled, leaving her dog Gogi gagged with duct tape in the bathroom,...

 NY - Second Life (SL) www.secondlife.com is a virtual cyberworld, created by Linden Labs, which is very similar to our own so called, real life (RL) world. ...

By SLHerald While most Linden staff hide their online presence, a number of residents have devised Linden monitors that scan for avatar keys and display the online status of even stealth Lindens. These tools are in widespread use in the griefing, land baron, and anti-griefing community as each of th...

By SLHerald Second Life has also been tremendously valuable to me in that it has provided a mechanism for me to explore my very strong interests in music, writing, photography and 3-D building and art. When I'm not tending to Kon Tiki Island Estates and its awesome residents, I DJ, blog, and build "fabu...

By SLHerald Just over a year ago, Linden Lab banned gambling in Second Life, a change that sent the in-world economy into a tailspin as virtual casinos across the grid shut down and gamblers took flight from the Lab’s virtual world entertainment product. But now, the casinos are back -- operating unde...

By Eric Reuters The newest destination for talent scouts looking to sign fresh acts is Second Life. Boutique label Reality Entertainment has signed popular Second Life musician Von Johin to a record deal. Wagner James Au runs a lengthy interview with Johin, who performs weekly shows in the virtual world.

By Eric Reuters So what’s going on? A few contributing factors: Linden’s customer base has been shrinking for six consecutive months, and the total number of mainland-owning premium accounts is smaller than it was a year ago.A migration by Second Life veterans to private islands and budget “Openspace...

By SLHerald rock shop While using an abortion clinic as a mall anchor tenant is a new marketing concept, Second Life may be the perfect place to seek feedback on this approach, and analysts suggest that if the concept takes off in the virtual realm, it could carry over to real life.

By Eric Reuters Scalability problems have plagued Second Life since its beginning. During the heyday of Second Life’s growth in early 2007, Linden frequently halted new user registrations when its servers were unable to meet the load of new signups.

By Eric Reuters What are American intelligence agencies up to in Second Life now? We’re not sure, but Tizzers Foxchase found this job listing for Linden Lab: Experience in Second Life and the ability to address technical issues around the Second Life Grid are a bonus.

By Elaine Polvinen This is a first of a series to present an overview of the different ways clothes are made in Second Life. Here is a link to a video I just created that will review for you how to organize your CLOTHING folder in SL. Organize Your Clothing Folder in Second Life.

By Eric Reuters Early comments by residents in the Second Life forums (registration required) were largely positive. “The ‘hands off’ policies of the past have led to a lawless anarchy in many areas of the grid, that have caused many residents to avoid much of the Mainland,” wrote Ceera Murakami.

By Caine Constantine They are massive, clocking in at 254 members as of the writing of this article. With four regions under their direct control – Badnarik, Salamis, Appledore and Amtor – they are the largest military force, in terms of both manpower and land ownership, on the grid today.

By Torley Linden This episode features a Viewer Cheatsheet, Avatar Databank, and YouTube-in-Second Life aid… more details after the jump! Second Life Viewer Cheatsheet I’ve also prepared a page on how to play movies & media in Second Life, should you need the help!

By SLHerald There was no word on what, if any, digital rights management tools might be made available by Google should it allow for user content creation, or if creators will be placed in a position of donating their work to attract ad viewers, something like Massively Staff writers are currently do...

By Eric Reuters SECOND LIFE, July 24 (Reuters) - OpenSim looks and feels very much like Linden Lab’s Second Life. But top OpenSim developers see a future in which their software is a generic platform for 3D software, hopefully interoperable with the Second Life Grid but not necessarily resembling it.

By Eric Reuters Be careful, that avatar on your sim could be a real-life private investigator, sent in to report on what you’re up to in your Second Life. But Second Life users should be aware, Rambam noted, that investigators are increasingly well-versed at using the virtual world.

By Wagner James Au Finally, I brought up the recent joint announcement made by Linden Lab and IBM that they'd managed to move several avatars from Second Life to Open Sim, the open source virtual world. This could eventually create a market for interconnected virtual worlds, but moving mere avatars was a ti...

By Evansmom Goodspeed … hasn’t been invented yet. However, I predict it will be a game that can do shoes better than Second Life, because if they can do shoes well, then everything else will have to be fabulous, too. You think I’m crazy? Well, maybe. But I also know the most undersung geniuses in SL are the [...]

By Enrico S. Not all is dreary in the MMO world this week though as Second Life has announced that its virtual world has expanded by 44 percent. Linden Lab, the developer of the game, pointed out that this massive growth spurt was due to a few of their new additions to the game such as the Openspace land prod...

By Eric Reuters In the wake of the recent first avatar teleport between Second Life and an OpenSim region, Linden VP Joe Miller, better known to Second Life residents as “Zero Linden,” spoke to Reuters about Linden Lab’s long-term strategy. LINDEN LAB’S NEW REVENUE MODEL

By Eric Reuters SECOND LIFE, July 7 (Reuters) - Second Life hit an all-time high in hours spent by avatars in-world but shed more premium accounts in June, according to new statistics released by Linden Lab on Tuesday. Total hours climbed to 33.9 million, Second Life’s highest to date.

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By Zee Linden User-to-User Transactions grew over 14%.  Total user-to-user transactions, a measure of the gross domestic product in Second Life, grew 14.3% during the quarter from an annualized rate of $300 million in Q1 to $338 million in Q2.  Resident spending remained a healthy $0.87 per user hour.

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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...

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 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 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 Jerry Weinstein With the recent announcement that Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale was stepping down, only a few months after the departure of CTO Cory Ondrejka, it's time to consider Second Life: The Next Generation. If ever there was a textbook example of the Gartner Hype Cycle look no further than this vi...

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 ...

Second Life serves up virtual Wimbledon  UK - IBM has recreated a 'virtual Wimbledon' in Second Life where users will be able to see matches being played by avatars using real match data from this ...

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.

Integrated campaigns with blogs, MySpace, YouTube and SecondLife - the most immersive in the social media spectrum. Unless you create value and commit to the long term to the residents of SL - a different culture than other communities - then get out of SL. Some companies do get, and the othe...