Second Life

By kibrown Hmmmmm…sounds like I had the same difficulties two years ago when I was trying to access Second Life. This time my school MacBook wouldn’t allow a Second Life upgrade so I couldn’t access the site. It was back to my husband’s HP laptop. Did I mention that I had no idea where his audio controls wer...

By CheyennePal@yahoo.com (Cheyenne Palisades) Last week I received a notecard and a folder from Miyo Darcy thanking me for my work and asking me if I would be willing to take a look at her line of avatar party accessories. Here I am dancing with an assortment of Darcy Designs glowys: And here I am with her lip piercing:

By Daniel Voyager M Linden today announced on the official Second Life Blog that Avatars United is now part of Linden Lab. This is an interesting move by Linden Lab into connecting avatars together. What do you think? What does Avatars United do? Linden Lab Priorities 2010

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By Shawn The heritage sites of the Mississippi Delta are important cultural monuments. This project brings three key Arkansas heritage sites into Second Life, allowing direct access to those sites for students and the general public. This virtual learning platform will be designed to allow a di...

By sm45rt I think that one of the reasons that I struggled with Second Life, was because I am not a video game player at all.  As a matter of fact, I would never choose to play a video game.  I even have trouble managing  motion  in video games.  I had difficulty moving around, which would improve with pract...

By Samuel Axon Second Life: It’s Doing Better Than You’d Think Second Life: It’s Doing Better Than You’d Think The State of Virtual Worlds Top 10 Games You Can Play on Facebook Tags: games, gaming, metaplace, Second Life, social gaming, social media, video games, virtual worlds, world of warcraft

By Daniel Voyager SL News Alert Over 50% of new Residents who register and download the Second Life viewer log in once and never come back a second time. We’ve made it way too hard for a new user to absorb all the wonderfulness that is Second Life. Read More

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) This study took place in the online 3D virtual world Second Life®, a recreational environment designed for world-building and socializing, and intended for individuals 18 years old and older. It described learning from the perspective of Second Life® Residents and focused on their wo...

By Daniel Voyager Second Life Content Creators Sue Second Life Creator Linden Lab -  15th September 2009Orange Island closed down in SL – 29th September 2009 October 2009 < recap This is my last Second Life post of 2009. Wishing everybody a happy new year 2010 and the new 2010

UGO (blog) The Worst Heartbreaks in Videogames 2009: 25-21 UGO (blog) The Damage: Heralded as the best thing since Second Life, Sony's answer to the social networking/avatar/virtual life craze landed with a large thud earlier ... and more »

Sony also plans to continue pushing Playstation Home — the ps3's baked-in Second Life-like ungame where users can customize their avatars and wander around ... and more »

By rss@youtube.com (teresacrodriguez) Author: teresacrodriguez Keywords: Second Life avatar Added: December 13, 2009

By johnwaugh “For SLENZ to even be listed amongst these groups is absolutely wonderful, “  SLENZ Update editor/writer, John Waugh (SL: Johnnie Wendt) said. “While I would love for the SLENZ Group to win the award  I am very conscious of the calibre of the other finalists – they are the best in the world fr...

By rss@youtube.com (sltexturetutorials) Author: sltexturetutorials Keywords: gimp second life create texture photoshop tutorials secondlife sltexturetutorials SL clothing linden textures Added: December 6, 2009

The avatars we operate in the present, hidden deep in games like Second Life and the Sims, are brought to plastic and metal life and almost everyone owns ...

New articles on Wikipedia also report that fantasy site Second Life is so successful that avatars from the wildly-popular virtual world are now applying for ... and more »

By CheyennePal@yahoo.com (Cheyenne Palisades) Linden Lab, founded in 1999, was the brain child of Philip Rosedale, created to bring to reality his vision of a three-dimensional virtual world-- Linden World, later renamed Second Life. So what SHOULD Linden Lab (in my inestimable opinion) be doing?

By daleinnis And of course there are the enhanced avatar physics. But I was using Emerald before that feature was added. It’s always hard to tell what’s going on in the collective mind of Linden Lab. I hope that this new policy will be made sensibly and thoughtfully, and keep Second Life going strong. If only...

By communities@secondlife.com We recently made several changes to the Second Life servers to address a potential security issue. To take advantage of the recent server upgrades and ensure that Second Life functions as you expect, we have released a new version of the Second Life Viewer.

By neville@nevillehobson.com (Neville Hobson) Content summary: FIR Interview with Steve Rubel now happening later this month; Michael Netzley reports on social media tools in times of crisis in The Philippines, text messaging and Facebook in China, and FTC-like guidelines on social media disclosure coming to Singapore; the Medi...

Content summary: FIR Interview with Steve Rubel now happening later this month; Michael Netzley reports on social media tools in times of crisis in The Philippines, text messaging and Facebook in China, and FTC-like guidelines on social media disclosure coming to Singapore; the Medi...

By Hypatia Callisto I don’t work for Linden Lab, and I am done doing things for Linden Lab for free, right now. Since when was I supposed to work for free in Second Life, when I am certain to have little to show for it but heartache and abuse? I’ve been down this road already: No thanks, LL.

By Erica Hendry While no studies have emerged about the benefits of using Second Life to train medical students, it offers a richer set of resources, with lower costs, than training in a physical, simulated operating room, said John Lester, an education and health-care market developer at Linden Lab,...

By Ⓟ Ari Blackthorne™ Linden Lab releases it’s own ‘after-market’ viewer, which I find funny, especially since I had just run the gambit on after-market viewers for Second Life Grid in my most previous post. Now in addition to the “official” Second Life viewer from Linden Lab (LL), said company releases anoth...

By Ⓟ Ari Blackthorne™ Isn’t choice a wonderful thing? Where “Emerald” relates to Second Life, it also is a Grid Viewer and a damned good one. Alternate Viewers page by Linden Lab (this list does not include all alternate viewers one can find on the Internet.)

By JohnnyRS I still think SL has some promises but there are some major competition coming up this and next year. I think Second Life will still be the best virtual world for user created content. Some of the upcoming virtual worlds may get more advertisers from big companies, though. That could get more u...

By daviding Second Life is not a game – it is a social, interactive, 3D version of the Internet. It has so far been developed and hosted by Linden Lab, but the vision for the future of Second Life requires more resources to realize than any one company can provide. In this talk from the O’Reilly Open Source C...

By rss@youtube.com (LuxeLemon) Author: LuxeLemon Keywords: SL Second Life Shirt t-shirt tshirt photoshop tutorial clothes avatar Added: April 28, 2009

By communities@secondlife.com Today, we've published a working draft of the definitions for PG, Mature and Adult here. We want to continue the discussion about our definitions and then finalize them by the end of April. The forums will stay up through the end of this process so we can continue to hear your feedback.  Next we...

By rss@youtube.com (leighzeitz) Author: leighzeitz Keywords: Second Life notecards landmarks howto machinima tutorial SL Added: April 16, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (tonyhursh) Part 1 of 2. Shows how to use PloppSL to create sculpted prims. Author: tonyhursh Keywords: Plopp Second Life OpenSim Added: February 28, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (SecondLogan) This is a very basic, quick (unedited even) beginner tutorial explaining how to use Maya's NCloth for SL Sculpted Prims. Author: SecondLogan Keywords: maya second life sculpted prim tutorial ncloth Added: February 22, 2009

http://www.itcnetwork.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=214 Session notes for a featured session at the ITC eLearning conference, a debate on: are "Virtual Worlds are the Second Life for Online Learning"? This post is a live blog of discussion.

By rss@youtube.com (ZombieZephyr) An addition to tutorial number 2. Just a quick modification to have "outer" eyes, as I call them, and the benefits/problems with these vs. normal eyes. Author: ZombieZephyr Keywords: second life furry avatar tutorial photoshop Added: January 25, 2009

By keystonesl As I roam the virtual frontier, I’m occasionally asked for advice about establishing a presence in Second Life, and I share the same bits of advice time and again. I thought I would share a summary of these points here for any readers considering the same, and invite comments, corrections o...

3 New Levels in Second Life Educational Openspaces Educational Islands. 3 New Levels in Second Life Educational Openspaces Educational Islands In my ... Second Life Gambling Update. Linden Labs has released and updated gambling policy. ...

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...

« Poets: A Wealth of Open Mics Await You in Second Life (1st in a series) Oct 05 2008 Help! I’m an Introverted Writer in an Extraverts’ World! Posted by: Joan Kremer in First Life, writers in virtual worlds, writers resources, writing contest Methinks it used to be far easier to be an introv...

By Tateru Nino A new Second Life viewer is available. Not a release candidate, but an update to the 1.20 series -- what's generally referred to as an 'official' or production viewer. The version number for this release is 1.20.16 (97603), ...

Metanomics host Robert Bloomfield interviewed Second Life founder and Chairman of the Board, Philip Rosedale, at the Second Life Community Convention in Tampa, Florida.  The Rosedale interview is available here (pictures above are Philip Rosedale and his avatar).

By Mike DeBenedittis (Brewguy Beck) I’m pleased to announce an update to the OnRez Viewer for Second Life. This release includes the most recent Linden Lab Viewer updates combined with the OnRez user interface and enhancement features. An update will be automatically offered when you start the OnRez Viewer. You can also down...

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) He did laugh when I asked, “So what do accountants do in Second Life?” but quickly responded, “We count things!” Actually, as he shared, accountants are pretty active, with CPA Island and recent events like “XBRL and the International Future of Financial Reporting”. There is also an Seco...

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) A stunning new Second Life art show will be opening this Saturday on NMC Campus. “Kiss the Sky” is the definitive exhibition of Hyperformalism in the world of Second Life®, and is a brand new collection of Second Life art curated by DC Spensley (aka DanCoyote Antonelli). Virtual worlds are a...

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 Tateru Nino The latest Leopard release for Macs (10.5.2) fixes many issues with Second Life on the MacBookPro (though you may have to run the update twice). A new Windlight First Look viewer was released - 1.19.0(79674). Linden Lab updated the ...

By Charles D. Second Life virtual life MMO game - Image 1 With the release of the new version of Second Life, a lot of changes were implemented since the last build with version 1.18.5.3. The virtual life MMO game has recently released the new 1.19.0 ...

There's a new, free tool for creating sculpted prims for Second Life called PloppSL. This is not your normal 3D editor - more like a coloring book that expands your drawings into the third dimension. Some people are having a bit of trouble using PloppSL, so I created this casual walk-through...

By Tateru Nino 29,192 new signups bringing us to 2,910,587 signups total.A peak concurrency of 26,492 at 1:50PM, and a minimum concurrency of 13,065 at 2:13AM. Average concurrency for the day was 19,280.A patch to allow PNG file format images to be uploaded as textures was submitted to Linden Lab for asse...

 - Second Life developer Linden Lab announced the delayed release of its v1.13.2 update originally scheduled for today. According to the company, ...

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.