Second Life

By Morris Vig Gwen Carillon, a real life sculpture and jeweler, is known for her shimmering glass textures and signature prim torture and emotional sculptures.  Her vita in real life and Second Life are filled with accolades for her art and her creativity. “Rebirth”, an interactive meditation sphere...

 MA - One such adopter is Linden Labs, the company behind the Second Life virtual reality system. Integrating Mono into the Second Life platform as its primary ...

By primalot Before the big-big-release entry for the Second Life Jewelry Expo will overwhelm you, here a little addendum from the time BEFORE. Ante Expositionem, so to speak. Okay, the ad is eye burning green. I KNOW. Before the big-big-release entry for the Second Life Jewelry Expo will overwhelm you,...

is an all-inclusive art group in Second Life, founded on 2 December 2006, whose purpose is "to promote, discuss, argue about and generally celebrate virtual and digital art forms." posted by maestross John on Burning Life using a blogHUD blogHUD map and teleport permalink

By Tan Tantalus All of this is of course an ideal world scenario and I doubt if anything I have listed will ever see the light of day. I am however still able to dream that the bits of Second Life which I personally find questionable can, in time be eliminated.

By noreply@blogger.com (glyn moody) The Social Research Foundation (SRF) has created a panel of about 11,000 Second Life residents, and has just released their first public survey on why the panel members are in Second Life, what they are doing there, and how their activities are changing.

By Joan Kremer Sep 29 2008 Poets: A Wealth of Open Mics Await You in Second Life (1st in a series) Posted by: Joan Kremer in First Life, Second Life, open mic, writers resources, writing community Roughly eight months ago, I tiptoed around a hedge and peaked at my first poetry reading in Second Life.  I was s...

 - Consumers can now visit Boulanger Island in Second Life to view and interact with Boulanger products in a familiar context, such as in a house, ...

 Australia - A coming title to be released by Sony called Home will be the PlayStation's answer to the online virtual world of Second Life and is another demonstration ...

By nobody@flickr.com (Lactose the Intollerent) Caledon the Musical, in aid of Relay for Life '08, from the Independent State of Caledon and Caledon Studios, Second Life. In total, in '08, the fine folks of Caledon raised L$3,000,000 for Relay for Life. This is a duplication of several versions around the grid, but arguably the best compr...

By timbok28@gmail.com (Aleister Kronos) Do you remember the Electric Sheep Company? Since you are one the small band of blogonauts who have washed up on the shores of Slambling, it is quite likely that you do. But if not, let me fill you in. In their own words: "The Electric Sheep Company creates Web-enabled social and virtual world e...

By Bob Sutor Permalink | One comment Tutorial: How to Replicate a Real Life Building in Second Life « The ARCH “One of the most frequently requested services I receive as a freelance builder and consultant in Second Life is to replicate real-life buildings. While I’ve written a lot (here, and here) abo...

A&E: Altered ‘State’ in Muncie and cyberspace  IN - In Second Life. For those unfamiliar, Second Life is a 3-D virtual world where what you see is created by you and the rest of the people who hang out there ...

 NY - Virtual worlds like Second Life inspire other fixations. "A lot of Second Life's appeal is to older people who are playing out fantasies," says Young. ...

By Darcy And from what I read, you can even grab an ALA T-shirt or Read poster for you avatar or apartment! What's Left: Several volunteers needed to debate the two main opposing sides — please contact Bryan Campbell of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom about participation. Or send an IM (Instant Message) to Second Life avatar Bryan Anderton. Courtesy of the Internet Archive of The Open Mind episodes 12:30 Second Life Time/Pacific Time - 2:30 Central Time Banned Books Week Town Square on ALA Island (203, 55, 61) — New location! ALA Island Banned Books Week Read-Out & Fireworks 5:00 Second Life Time/Pacific Time - 7:00 Central Time Main Stage on ALA Island (127, 103, 29) In-world appearance by author Chris Crutcher   [read the full post]

By Daniel Livingstone Thursday 6th November at 8am SL time (4pm UK time).  Children in a virtual world: Professor Jackie Marsh (Department of Education, University of Sheffield, UK in RL, Jackie Darkstone in SL) will talk about her research into schoolchildren's use of the virtual world Club Penguin.

Second Life, a virtual world created in 2003, currently boasts more than 12 million users worldwide who go there for everything from college recruiting to shopping. Now, Penn State researchers are investigating how virtual teams can better solve real world problems by collaborating i...

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By M Linden Experience Localization: When I joined in May, I attended new hire orientation at Linden Lab. One of my classmates was the new Linden hired to lead the localization of our product (websites, viewer, support tools). She has made great progress. By the end of the year, the viewer will be fully l...

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A new Second Life book club is launching at Story Mountain Center on Athena Isle with the first selection a literary thriller and page-turner, BONEYARD by Michelle Gagnon. Read the book this month (October) and join other readers and the author on October 23 to discuss it! Michelle Gagnon...

 - Microsoft's Craig Mundie has dismissed the potential of "synthetic virtual worlds" like Second Life, saying that the potential for immersive environments ...

By dskmag He also talked about how Montana is isolated, and how he now feels connected like never before in a personal learning network. Its amazing to think how a passing conversation in a virtual world can lead people to make such powerful and ever changing connections with their learning.

By Wagner James Au So last year, most people decided that marketing real products in virtual worlds like Second Life doesn't work. Since then, however, I've come across some avatar-driven advertising campaigns with very impressive numbers. In Gaia Online, for example, users grabbed over a million virtu...

By SLHerald He walked me into a zen-like workspace and asked me to take a seat, and that’s when I saw her, a sweet angel face with eyes I had never seen before on Second Life, pitch black and darker than night. I squirmed in my chair as she stood there for 5 minutes, the longest 5 minutes of my life, in dead sile...

By Mbauwens The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse chronicles Sklar's "murder" and then proceeds to backtrack, providing a step-by-step account of how Ludlow/Sklar's muckracking efforts caused such a stir within Second Life.

By Eric Reuters SECOND LIFE, Sept 7 (Reuters) - As they have every year for four years, the Second Life faithful tore themselves away from their computers for a weekend of real-life travel to celebrate Linden Lab’s virtual world at SLCC, the Second Life Community Convention.

By Eric Reuters Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life. “More use of Second Life to support education and business collaboration.” Chadrick Baker, virtual worlds consultant, former Linden Lab employee “Phoenix Linden” (declined to give real-life name), Linden Lab employee

By Eric Reuters SECOND LIFE, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Second Life users who frequently access the Internet from consumer-grade computers and laptops are about to find keeping touch with other avatars a lot easier. Yesterday Linden Lab announced the launch of “SLim,” pronounced “slim,” an instant-messagin...

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 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 SLHerald The question now is if enough players will agree with Mr. Verbeck, and how much of Google's cash mountain will be spent on developing a ad-word driven 3D spaces inside web pages. RiversRunRed CEO warns against allowing residents to create 3D content by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs d...

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 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 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 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 cindykesey Sound familiar? So if you find your partners engaged in online relationships that you don't understand, don't simply slam down your gavel and thrust your verdict upon them just yet. Talk openly and honestly with him or her about why they are in Second Life.

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 What do people do in Second Life? Interestingly, it’s not really until you visit a site like SL Exchange, or the Electric Sheep Company version called Onrez, that you begin to get a sense of the scale of virtual creation - it’s bigger than you think.

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 ...

By Nicolo S. Second Life a 3-D virtual world that s imagined, created, and owned by its online residents was launched in 2003 and now boasts nearly five million inhabitants around the globe. Never taken part in the nerdfest? Isn t she reason enough?

By Eloise Pasteur Filed under: News, Business, Making MoneyRandolph Harrison has blogged a long article asserting just this. It's not his first such article, although his first was dismissed (much to his chagrin) by many readers, including those who are experts in modeling virtual world economies.

Second Life presents its residents with many unique opportunities for social interaction, commerce, and entertainment. Could virtual gambling be the next "feature" to be offered in Linden's online world? If so, what would the offline legal ramifications look like?

By noemail@noemail.org (Steve Rubel) Commerce, or at least the potential for it, is also a key motivator. According to Second Life creator Linden Labs, residents spent $9 million this year - much of it with each other. Business is growing in the 3D community at a 12% monthly clip and is up 287% year-over-year. Small as it is, it show...

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...