Second Life

By CheyennePal@yahoo.com (Cheyenne Palisades) In a move that continues to shake the Second Life community of content creators, merchants, and consumers, Linden Labs has declared that free virtual content will no longer be searchable without listing payments on their website portal; and additional fees will be added with the inten...

By vyktormaertens Yes, Second Life just like the real one is the place where all aggressions are possible! I won’t talk here about the way our fashionable eyes can be hurt seeing an avatar who wears the proof of its terrible bad taste on its shoulders. I won’t explain how some fashion faux-pas can wound a sensit...

By nicmitham For businesses and trade-based users of virtual worlds, being able to assess the reputation of an avatar, prior to interacting with them is important – think of it as an Ebay rating for virtual worlds, a score based on other user/avatar feedback. Marketing/Media

By johnwaugh One has to  agree now that Blackall was right, even though  there is obviously a place for fair payment to commercial (virtual world creators, builders, developers etc) interests, something Linden Labs has recognised  with its protection of its own virtual world product lines (and  u...

A private Second Life in a $55,000 box Some companies like IBM have an uncanny attraction to Linden Lab's virtual world, Second Life. They claim the software provides a 3-D collaboration space that's viscerally superior to what traditional mediums such as teleconferencing, instant me...

By Mitch Wagner Second Life Enterprise allows companies to run their own, private version of the virtual world in their data centers, for added security and control.

By Metanomics Discussions of the pros and cons are filling the various channels of Second Life chat today, after the launch on yesterday’s Metanomics program of the new Second Life Enterprise™ product. But adoption of this environment and how to drive it is clearly on everyone’s mind.

By mittfox My story doesn’t end there, you’ll be pleased to know. I could quite easily pen an entire novel on the subject of Second Life were I so inclined (it’s still a possibility). Rather than subject you to a painful wall of text, I think I’ll serialise this epic saga for easy digestion. Keep an eye out f...

By daleinnis 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 ’cause I have a lot of tank tops. So the recent Second Life weblog posting on third-party viewer policies h...

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 Ⓟ Ari Blackthorne™ The simple matter of fact is: if you can hear it, you can copy it and steal it. If you can see it, you can copy it and steal it. As for copybot: it works the exact same way. If you can see it, you can steal it. it always has been this way on the internet. I mean, what would you have Linden Lab do specifically? Surely Linden Lab can placate we creators by adding more permissions restrictions or whatever else, but then we will chastise Linden Lab for not going far enough. They really don’t care if you are here tomorrow or not. That, dear friend is the majority attitude on the grid. Copybot and entitlement attitudes were given their birth at the onset of the open-sourcing of the Linden Lab grid viewer. The cat already is out of the bag and there’s no setting him back in.   [read the full post]

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.

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By Daniel Voyager Baffin – Teen Grid Transfer Station – Jade Lily This is where our youngest Residents come to celebrate their transition to the Main Grid. Celebrate the spirit of Second Life! 􀀊 This is a quick easy guide for TG residents transferring very soon to the Main Grid or Teens that ha

By Gwyneth Llewelyn Jumping into Blue Mars earlier today — while my roomie was asleep and I could use her PC, the only machine at our place that is powerful enough (and has the correct operating system!) to log in to Blue Mars and get some 8 FPS out of it — was a bit like evaluating many other virtual world platforms...

By olafquintessa Deep house music at the Southern Cross in Second Life Lineup: 3am-5am SLT: GW Raymaker 5am-7am SLT: Olaf Quintessa Direct link to the Southern Cross in Second Life, click here Deep house music at the Southern Cross in Second Life Lineup: 3am-5am SLT: GW Raymaker 5am-7am SLT:

By Eric Reuters Enter Metaverse Ink, which its creators say is the first search engine to find objects on both the Second Life Grid and in OpenSim worlds. “Linden Lab’s search is bad, it’s like AltaVista in the old days,” said Metaverse Ink co-founder William Cook (Second Life: Felix Wakmann), a computer...

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. Viewer links: Alternate Viewers page by Linden Lab (this list does not include all alternate viewers one can find on the Internet.)

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 rss@youtube.com (BlenderSL) Tutorial 3 of 4 in this beginner's series, explaining the basic use of Blender 3d to created 'Sculpted Prims' for Second Life. This tutorial walks you through some simple Edit Mode commands, as well as the basics of Blender's Modifiers, and continues with some simple Edit Mode mesh manipu...

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

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 (SmokeyMcPiEcE) Learn how to create a transparent (Alpha) Image in photoshop with two methods, Easy and Advanced. Visit http://Level2Online.info for Guides, Reviews, and more. Author: SmokeyMcPiEcE Keywords: SL Second Life Textures targa 32bit png transparent level 2 Online Added: February 15, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (SmokeyMcPiEcE) Volume one of the Level 2 Online SL Guides: Using the Grid Author: SmokeyMcPiEcE Keywords: Second Life Secondlife Build Builders guide guide tips and tricks Level 2 Online Level 2 Added: February 12, 2009

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 rss@youtube.com (bwhit30) Author: bwhit30 Keywords: IMteleport Added: January 20, 2009

By Mike Fahey Furries in Second Life are actually anthropomorphic animals - animals given human shape, walking on two legs. There are several popular places in Second Life to purchase furry avatars - Luskwod, Lost Furrest, and Curious Inc., where Uchi Desmoulins has been teasing fans with a house cat f...

By rss@youtube.com (Gozenko) Down River Killers DRK member was on SL and its damn cool to meat him. Author: Gozenko Keywords: SL Second life DRK ZiggyZ Beam Zee tutorial xxx Added: December 25, 2008

By Katt Linden If you have story ideas for the “Stories from Second Life” series, please email them to presscontact@secondlife.com with “Stories from Second Life” in the subject line. Special thanks to Torley Linden.        Hi, Katt Linden here to introduce the next installment of Linden Lab’s new podc...

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. ...

SECOND LIFE, Sept 11 (Reuters) - OpenSim [1] remains in pre-release and the interoperability standards [2] to allow avatars to travel between virtual worlds are still being drafted. But that's not stopping entrepreneurs from creating a fledgling industry around what's to come. Enter M...

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 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 ...

By magnusgrafex Linden Labs has announced that although they did nothing to combat the QuickTime vulnerability in Second Life, Apple Inc has finally released a patch for the flaw. Linden Labs is strongly urging that you patch Apple QuickTime because ...

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 ...

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.