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Year 2009

 

Rate Video: Philip Linden on Business Uses for Second LifeVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Jun 1

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By rss@youtube.com (IcaruSProducts) Author: IcaruSProducts Keywords: PhilLinden2 Added: June 1, 2009

Rate Video: Valentines Day in Second Life - Chantal Harvey machinimaVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Fri, Mar 6

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By rss@youtube.com (ChantalHarvey) On valentines day I was invited to a special Valentines sim (creation... Author: ChantalHarvey Keywords: machinima Second Life SL Chantal Harvey M.Linden Mia Linden Lindens mamachinima Blue Glooped valentine kisses hugs hugging Added: March 6, 2009

Rate Video: "Like a stone" - Audioslave - Storyboard by Volenterose Sorelle InternettareVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Wed, Feb 18

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By rss@youtube.com (IracondaDemonia) Author: IracondaDemonia Keywords: VSI Audioslave LikeAStone IracondaDemonia Iraconda SecondLife SL Second Life Storyboard Snapshots ReleaseCandidate LindenLab Linden VirtualWorlds Volenterose Sorelle Internettare Demonia like+a+stone iraconda+demonia second+life

Rate Video: Interested In Gaining Money Online Where To Earn Those Free Linden Dollars, Make Money OnlineVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Oct 27    3 related articles

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By rss@youtube.com (Peace2455545) Best Home Based Business Opportunity we will shows you the resources for finding the best work at home based business opportunities, ideas and jobs Home Business News and Reviews of the top end home business opportunities Find your perfect home business opportunity, we have many home b...

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Rate Outrageous!

Original at Chey's Second Life external link    Fri, Nov 20

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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...

Rate Second Life Enterprise and the Second Life Work Marketplace

Original at Gwyn's Home external link    Fri, Nov 20

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By Gwyneth Llewelyn I’ve tried to dispel some myths and rumours around Linden Lab’s latest enterprise-class product offerings on my other blog. I hope it clarifies some questions and doubts Comments are welcome over there… Related posts:Some proposals for making the new permission system workReal Life F...

Rate New World Newsfeed: Linden Partners With Online Gambling Service To Handle Online/International Payments

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Wed, Nov 18

By SLHamlet The Lindens have partnered with 888 Holdings, an online gambling company, to handle payment services, especially for international Second Life users. As M. Linden puts it in the press release, "[W]e’re pleased to work with them to provide easy and...

Rate SLENZ Update, No 150, November 17, 2009Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at slenz (WordPress) external link    Mon, Nov 16

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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...

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Rate Pink Linden's Commerce Survey Scares Merchants

Original at Second Life Herald external link    Sat, Nov 14

By SLHerald Pink points out Apple takes 30% of iPhone App revenue - will LL follow suit? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Pink Linden It is hard to blame Second Life merchants for being concerned about the virtual goods' retail landscape...

Rate Linden Lab's "Behind the Firewall" Product

Original at allaroundthegrid (WordPress) external link    Fri, Nov 6

By ramenjedburgh It’s being pushed as a stand alone Second Life solution for enterprise.  I find this kind of odd on several levels and it raises some questions.  One, does it interact with the LL Asset database.  That is, can I take my virtual stuff to the stand alone server?

Rate Linden Labs Goes Corporate

Original at GamePolitics external link    Thu, Nov 5

By John Keefer Linden Labs has modified its popular Second Life virtual world to allow businesses to get into the act behind the safety of their own firewalls. Linden Labs said it has more business-related products in the works and plans a Second Life Work Marketplace for early next year.

Rate Linden Lab unveils Sadville: Enterprise Edition

Original at Register external link    Wed, Nov 4

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...

Rate Metanomics in the news – Enterprise 2.0 Conference

Original at NMC Campus Observer external link    Fri, Oct 30    3 related articles

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By Metanomics The presentation is slated for a mixed-reality event at the Moscone Center and in Second Life. Second Life and Linden Lab observers expect the demo to offer nuts-and-bolts into Nebraska specs, packages, and what ever Linden plans on calling the new stand-alone virtual world package.

Rate Second Life Welcomes Nebraska

Original at Your2ndPlace external link    Thu, Oct 29

By Ciaran Laval I'm not sure how much Amanda Linden enjoys posting on the blog. Amanda is a serious grown up Linden, she's there for corporations and education, I envisage her in a business suit, maybe a little bit of power dressing. I wouldn't imagine her as a furry inworld, more of a business executive with...

Rate Burning Life 2009 Stats

Original at danielvoyagerblog (WordPress) external link    Wed, Oct 28

By Daniel Voyager Second Life Burning Life 2009 stats released via Burning Life group in-world. Resident posted. I think Dusty Linden or another Linden may post 2009 BL09 follow up soon. I managed to find these stats for Burning Life 2008 posted by Dusty Linden on the Official Second Life Blog.

Rate My 2nd Rezz Day was Yesterday!

Original at harperganesvoort (WordPress) external link    Sun, Oct 25

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By Harper Technically, I’m not really an old stager yet.  There are folks around who have been on the grid since the days of Linden World, and who remember when Ruths covered the land — at least until they rezzed up fully.  I’m starting to feel like an old hand, though, as my knowledge of the Grid and what I...

October of 2009

 

Rate Burning Man Reflected Virtually in Burning Life – Community Forum

Original at NMC Campus Observer external link    Thu, Oct 22

By Metanomics An artist and curator of many Second Life art events, White Lebed, will join Dusty Linden to discuss Burning Life, the annual SL event connected to Burning Man. This year the event occupies 34 sims and provides a virtual reflection of the gathering in Nevada.

Rate Is Philip Linden really leaving?

Original at Gwyn's Home external link    Mon, Oct 19

By Gwyneth Llewelyn Philip Linden on Radio ShowRequired Reading — Philip “Linden” Rosedale’s Mission Statement for Linden LabPhilip Linden Announces New Open Source Model for the Second Life Client © Gwyneth Llewelyn for Gwyn's Home, 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us

Rate Philip Rosedale leaves Linden Lab and moves on

Original at danielvoyagerblog (WordPress) external link    Fri, Oct 16

By Daniel Voyager Philip Rosedale (Philip Linden) announced yesterday on the Official Second Life Blog his Next Chapter, that he will be starting a new company and that he will no longer be working full-time at Linden Lab anymore. Philip Rosedale will still be a chariman of Linden Lab and he will still do med...

Rate The Road Forks

Original at Gwyn's Home external link    Fri, Oct 9

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By Gwyneth Llewelyn You can’t have missed Linden Lab’s recent announcement regarding the Community Partnership Programme, which will bring to each and every community in Second Life® the kind of “special agreement” that Linden Lab signed with the United Sailing Sims nine months ago.

September of 2009

 

Rate VirWoX selects Neovia to convert Second Life virtual currency

Original at Finextra external link    Wed, Sep 23

VirWoX is using NEOVIA's NETELLER e-wallet to enable users of the Second Life virtual world to trade Linden dollars with real world currencies. ... Neovia moves into Second Lifeisleofman.com Neovia Financial wins contract from VirWoX for Second Life virtual ...The Paypers (abonnement)

Rate Metanomics Returns Today with Live: Virtual Goods and Linden Labs

Original at NMC Campus Observer external link    Tue, Sep 22

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By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) Join Second Life founder Philip Rosedale, Linden Lab Chief Product Officer Tom Hale, and Cornell University Economist Robert Bloomfield to discuss where virtual goods are headed, what makes Second Life’s virtual goods economy different, the challenges and opportunities of an econ...

Rate Second Life's virtual economy over $500M a year

Original at Bizjournals.com external link    Tue, Sep 22

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Second Life "residents" have done more than $1 billion in transactions with one another to date and spent one billion hours online, according to the virtual ... Linden Labs: Second Life users log over one billion hoursNeowin InformationWeek -Joystiq (blog) -Virtual Worlds News

Rate NSF-funded study by IU researchers targets 'presence' in virtual ...

Original at Indiana University external link    Mon, Sep 21

While often used for social or gaming purposes, virtual worlds (like Sun's Wonderland, Linden Lab's Second Life, and others) are being tailored for ... NCSU researchers to study how to measure impact of virtual world ...Local Tech Wire all 4 news articles »

Rate …but we agreed, we have a contract! waaaah

Original at Terra Nova external link    Fri, Sep 18

By Ren Reynolds Not if you contracted in Second Life you don't. Common practice in virtual worlds and in particular Second Life is the payment for services using the in-world currency.  In the case of Second Life the currency is Linden Dollars (L$), these are defined in the terms of service thus:

Rate Second Life Sued For Allowing Sale Of Impostor Virtual Goods

Original at Mediapost.com external link    Tue, Sep 15

Linden Research was sued on Tuesday for allegedly hosting a virtual Canal Street on Second Life. ... U. of Texas System Buys Land in Second LifeChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) all 2 news articles »

Rate Chestnut's Choices 9/10 - 9/16: Remember 9/11 With a Candlelight Walk, Readings & Live Music, Explore the History of SL Art, Celebrate St. Torley Day, And Much More

Original at nwn.blogs.com external link    Thu, Sep 10

By Chestnut Rau Chestnut Rau’s weekly round-up of upcoming SL events… Torley Linden, Second Life’s “Resident Enlightenment Manager" will be celebrated at the Second Annual “St. Torley’s Day” Sunday September 13th at noon with a watermelon-y party at the Four Kittens of the...

Rate A 'Second Life' for NATO Staffers

Original at Wired News external link    Fri, Sep 4

Linden Labs, the creators of Second Life. But gamers should hold off before flooding NATO offices with job applications: the virtual world solicitations are ...

August of 2009

 

Rate SL Changes Web Search, Screws Business Owners Over

Original at commonsensible.net external link    Thu, Aug 27

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By Ⓟ Ari Blackthorne™ Does it mean I agree with all or even any of it? The answer to that questions doesn’t matter, does it? I am a guest in Linden Lab’s house. Does it mean it all makes me happy? It doesn’t matter. I am a guest in Linden Lab’s house. Does any of it make me angry as hell? God, I hope not, I am not so conceited as...

Rate Second Life rings the changes with Avaline

Original at Kzero external link    Fri, Aug 21

By Juliana Triadafilopoulos Linden Lab announced mid-week that its AvaLine: Dial an Avatar service completed its beta program (launched in May) and is now available for subscriptions online. It claims that use of the AvaLine application “makes it easier than ever to connect with the real world.” For 1,200 Linden Do...

Rate Opinion: Tweets from M Linden and Philip Linden Keynotes Speech

Original at danielvoyagerblog (WordPress) external link    Sat, Aug 15

By Daniel Voyager Philip Linden Keynotes Philip and M: “Evolution, or Revolution M Linden Keynotes Philip did not create a virtual world. He created a platform so we could all create a virtual world server crash rate down 60%, viewer 40%) Bringing more of the web into SL, more SL to the web

Rate Spammers are disseminating a new illegal SL client under my name

Original at Gwyn's Home external link    Fri, Aug 7

By Gwyneth Llewelyn Second Life Client Becomes Open SourceWalking on a tight rope with the SL clientPhilip Linden Announces New Open Source Model for the Second Life Client © Gwyneth Llewelyn for Gwyn's Home, 2009. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: "neil life", gwyneth llewelyn

Rate Social Climbers: Companies' New Social Savvy

Original at CNBC external link    Tue, Aug 4

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Other companies are going online in a more virtual way. Linden Lab's Second Life is a virtual world known for its 3-D imagery and wacky avatars. ...

July of 2009

 

Rate Could virtual gaming contribute to medical research?

Original at Economic Times external link    Thu, Jul 23

If twitter is the tech-story turned mainstream media darling of 2009, then San Francisco-based Linden Lab's virtual reality world “Second Life” (SL) was ... and more »

Rate Beating Linden to the punch on multi-grid search

Original at Reuters external link    Thu, Jul 23

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...

Rate 200 days on the Main Grid Review

Original at danielvoyagerblog (WordPress) external link    Tue, Jul 7

By Daniel Voyager When I first arrived on the MG I was taken to the Teen Grid Transfer Station located in Baffin where Kate Linden spent time with me and invited me into many awesome SL groups and things I should know on the Main Grid. I remember saying OMG OMG OMG to myself when I looked at the Map, Events Tab and Sh...

June of 2009

 

Rate Second Life Gets New Open Source ViewerVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at WebProNews external link    Thu, Jun 25

By Chris Crum There is also a mini-map, which lets the user zoom in for extreme close-ups. "Handy for those large gatherings where all of the avatar dots just seem to pile on top of each other," says Linden. "It's also more fun than you ever knew you could have with your scrollwheel."

Rate Blog: Rosedale: Blame it on the Mac

Original at Reuters external link    Wed, Jun 17

By Eric Reuters Linden employee “Phoenix Linden” joined in, saying Apple doesn’t release information about their proprietary video card drivers in a timely fashion, making it hard for Linden to keep the Mac version of the viewer running smoothly.

Rate Live from the Maryland Biz Expo, Part 1

Original at Accountingweb.com external link    Tue, Jun 16

 OH In yesterday's session on Second Life, the creator of Second Life, Philip Linden, popped in to the virtual session. Linden stated that he believes Second Life will replace a portion of business travel in the coming years. He sees Second Life expansion ...

Rate Startup hopes to create new market for pre-IPO shares

Original at San Jose Mercury News external link    Tue, Jun 16

  USA The initial reports showed Linden Labs, known for creating the virtual world Second Life, valued from $450 million to $590 million; the business services firm SugarCRM at between $195 million and $252 million, and the molecular diagnostics startup XDx ...

Rate Gamers spend most time on Sony's PS2 - Video Business

Original at Video Business external link    Mon, Jun 15

subscription), CA As for game titles, Warcraft accounted for 44% of total minutes played by non-casual gamers in April, outpacing Linden Labs' Second Life by almost an 8-to-1 margin. Still, players of Midway Games' Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar spent the most ...

Rate Blog: Virtual currency not on the OpenSim agenda

Original at Reuters external link    Thu, Jun 4

By Eric Reuters Linden Lab and OpenSim developers shared the stage at an SLCC panel called "Open Software For Open Worlds," and said there was nothing in the works to support buying virtual goods and services with Linden dollars anywhere but on the Second Life Grid. Linden Lab and OpenSim developers shar...

Rate Camping Truth From the Plants Mouth

Original at commonsensible.net external link    Mon, Jun 1

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By Ⓟ Ari Blackthorne™ I see the MetaCard and all the European Linden Dollar Exchanges all over the place. From Further Clarification on Bots and Camping - Land and Sea - Second Life Blogs] The thread on the Second Life “Land” blog is growing daily. There’s enough there t

Year 2009

 

Rate The SLENZ Update – No 88, May 21, 2009Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at slenz (WordPress) external link    Wed, May 20

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By johnwaugh Update your viewer For Second Life residents Dessie Linden has announced:  “The third iteration of the 1.23 viewer, Release Candidate 2 (RC2), is now available for download as a mandatory upgrade. As always, this RC may be installed along side any official viewer, and remember… on Thursd...

Rate Podcast: Adult content brown bag meeting

Original at Your2ndPlace external link    Mon, May 11

By Ciaran Laval I'd love to give you the skinny on the lowdown on today's adult content brown bag meeting that I was invited to by Blondin Linden, the only problem is that Linden Lab decided not to invite me in the end without having the courtesy to tell me.

Rate How To: BASES : Comment acheter des $L dans Second LifeVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Apr 28    2 related articles

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By rss@youtube.com (GallySL) Author: GallySL Keywords: Torley buying acheter $L base second life tutorial video; Linden Added: April 28, 2009

Rate SL Quickstart - Pushed to New Residents?

Original at commonsensible.net external link    Mon, Apr 20

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By Ari Blackthorne™ Our favorite Linden, Torley has posted links to the SL Quick-Start Guide, available in PDF format for download. Hurray for Torley, still at it with helpful tips and tutorials and all thing edification-wise regarding the gris, viewer and Second Life in general.

Rate 'Inside the Lab' Podcast: Meet Long-Time Linden Andrew Meadows

Original at LindenLab (Feedburner) external link    Tue, Mar 24

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By communities@secondlife.com Andrew started working with Philip before Linden Lab or Second Life even existed, and in addition to describing what he’s currently focused on, he shares some interesting stories about the early days, including how he went from launching rockets to helping to build the virtual world. Ho...

Rate The SLENZ Update - No 58, March 13, 2009

Original at slenz (WordPress) external link    Thu, Mar 12

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By johnwaugh ” We do think this will make Second Life more attractive to all kinds of users, including those focusing on business and education,”  a Linden spokesperson told  Virtual World News. “Fundamentally this is about giving Residents more control over their Second Life experience. For those w...

Rate Opinion: Real World Meetings In A Virtual Office

Original at inxpo (WordPress) external link    Tue, Feb 17

By dshiao Amanda Van Nuys, Linden Labs’ Director of Enterprise Marketing (and known in-world as Amanda Linden) has an interesting blog posting titled “Working in the Virtual World.”  Amanda describes her use of Second Life for work-related meetings and collaboration.  A neat physical/virtual...

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Original at Official Second Life external link    Fri, Feb 13

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By t linden SEARCH FOR THE GOLDEN HEARTS..and other Happy Valentine’s from Linden Lab! It’s Valentine’s Day and Second Life is aflutter with love! This year, in addition to the Kiss a Linden, Kiss a Volunteer event and an unveiling of a newly revamped Cupid Linden avatar, we invite you all to explore yo...

Rate Philip Linden on Radio Show

Original at Gwyn's Home external link    Thu, Feb 12

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By Gwyneth Llewelyn Very likely the highlight of the show will be the interview to Philip “Linden” Rosedale. In spite of the usual answers to “why did you create Second Life?” a few of Philip’s insights are brand new. He also gives us an idea on his new daily routine as strategist and developer at Linden Lab.

Rate Kiss a Linden, Kiss a Volunteer, Cupid Linden and More Valentine’s Day Fun!

Original at Official Second Life external link    Wed, Feb 11

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By Jeska Linden This year we’re celebrating Valentine’s Day by continuing our annual tradition by awaking Isle of View, it’s sister island Isle of ViewToo and Hugsville for Teens (on Teen Second Life) back from their wintery sleep. We’ve also got lots of freebies and other Valentine’s Day goodies — incl...

Rate Opinion: Second Life Buys XstreetSl - Some Thoughts.

Original at slconceptual (WordPress) external link    Sun, Feb 8

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By slconceptual I got to page 5 before I gave up looking for any mention of XstreetSl, let alone Second Life. So I changed the search term to “Skybox Second Life” - without the quotes. It’s been a little while now since Linden Labs bought XstreelSl.com and OnRez.com, and mostly

Rate Second Life Grid Update from FJ Linden

Original at Official Second Life external link    Mon, Jan 12

By Frank Ambrose (FJ Linden) A quick update on a couple of our data access layer projects - HTTP Dataserver and Agent Inventory Services.  Both of these projects are close to completion, you may recall from my previous posts that we are trying to simplify messaging protocols between the Simulators and back end databa...

Rate Avatar of the Year 2008 - 2nd Place: Sidewinder Linden

Original at Second Life Herald external link    Sun, Jan 11

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By SLHerald The coveted 2008 Avatar of the Year award second place trophy is awarded - posthumously - to Sidewinder Linden, an avatar who unfortunately is no longer part of the metaverse after being removed from Second Life when his RL typist stopped working for Linden Lab in December 2008, and heade...

Rate Opinion: Virtual Worlds Explained

Original at irevolution (WordPress) external link    Thu, Jan 8

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By Patrick Philippe Meier Visitors in Second Life (SL) can exchange their real dollars for Linden Dollars and vice versa. The size of the SL economy has been estimated at $300 million or more, meaning its virtual economy is larger than the gross domestic product of some real nations. There is more trade in Linden Doll...

Rate Linden Prize Applications Due Jan. 15, 2009

Original at Official Second Life external link    Wed, Jan 7

By Everett Linden Linden Prize Application Translation Project        Happy New Year!  I hope that one of your New Year’s Resolutions was to finish and submit your Linden Prize applications, because time is running out to be one of the top ten finalists we’ll announce, able to show the world what hard work...

Rate PlayStation Home And Second Life: Worlds ApartVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Kotaku external link    Wed, Dec 31

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By Mike Fahey Second Life is a large virtual world where the majority of the content in the game is generated by the user. Linden Labs lays the groundwork, so to speak, but nearly everything you see while wandering about Second Life came from the mind of one of the game's residents, from clothes and hair to...

Rate Podcast: Stories from Second Life: Glenn Linden talks with Joni West of This Second Marketing

Original at Official Second Life external link    Wed, Dec 10

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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...

Rate Podcast: Stories from Second Life: Studio Wikitecture

Original at Official Second Life external link    Tue, Nov 25

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By Katt Linden Hello, this is Katt Linden. I’m here to welcome you to a Linden Lab podcast series, “Stories from Second Life.”  These are stories about individuals working in Second Life and the projects they are working on. Download the mp3: Stories from Second Life: Studio Wikitecture

Rate Merrick Thor on Philip Linden's awful hair

Original at rikomatic.com external link    Tue, Nov 11

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By rikomatic The deeper meaning of Philip Linden's hair:  if hair is such an important component of the user's experience of virtual worlds, what does it say that Philip Linden has awful hair?  Is he too visionary for prim hair? Is he missing something?  What kind of hair would you recommend?"So, my fi...

Rate Top Three Virtual Worlds for Election Day

Original at GigaOm external link    Tue, Nov 4

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By Wagner James Au Of course, there's only one virtual world where your avatar can actually look like Obama Girl or Sarah Palin. Linden Lab's metaverse is teeming with political activity and real world social advocacy groups, so it's no surprise that election day will be rocking in SL. An unofficial Obama gr...

Rate Patch: Policy and Prices Changes for OpenSpaces in Second Life

Original at Second Life Update external link    Tue, Oct 28

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. ...

Rate Foundation For Rich Content offering L$20,000 for projects that enrich Second Life experience

Original at rikomatic.com external link    Thu, Oct 23

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By rikomatic The FFRC has announced its call for proposals by makers of rich content in Second Life.  The grants foundation has awarded Linden to organizations and individuals who enrich the lives of SL residents with educational events, arts, virtual sports, cultural events and just fun things to d...

Rate Beating Linden to the punch on multi-grid search

Original at Reuters external link    Sat, Oct 18

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...

Rate How To: Second Life 1.21 Viewer is Available Today

Original at Second Life Grid Status Reports external link    Fri, Oct 17

By ReleaseTeam Announcing the Second Life 1.21 Viewer! As many scripters are aware, this 1.21 viewer brings you the ability to compile scripts using Mono. (Learn more about Mono in a video tutorial by Torley Linden.) It also includes new LSL functions ...

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Original at UgoTrade external link    Tue, Sep 9

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In the picture above Ryan McDougall now senior software developer with RealXtend, Tomi Kujanpää (LudoCraft/realXtend Art Director & Avatar Specialist), Hannu Hollström (ADMINO technologies) have a drink with Gene Yoon (Ginsu Linden), VP of Business Affairs, Linden Lab at The...

Rate Linden launches instant messaging client

Original at Reuters external link    Sat, Sep 6

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...

Rate Second Life’s user economy shows strong growth

Original at Reuters external link    Wed, Aug 27

By Eric Reuters SECOND LIFE, August 26 (Reuters) - The real-world economy may be slipping into recession, but the global slowdown isn’t impacting Second Life. According to recently released company statistics, Linden Lab’s in-world economy is larger than ever.

Rate How To: Linden scripting for… newbies!

Original at Second Life Pros external link    Thu, Jul 31

By sbrunozzi Wow, this is great: a tool from MIT to help developers learn how to create things and let them interact in Second Life, thank to numerous contributors. The tool, Scratch4SL, is very easy to use even without any programming skill, ...

Rate Opinion: MMO Gaming Strategy Guides

Original at tipsdr.com external link    Thu, Jul 24

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By Jimmy Daniels Linden Dollars Guide Top earners in Second Life make more US Dollars with their SL ventures than most players in the real world. Why aren’t you part of it yet? Still need in search of a great business concept? Haven’t found the right scripts yet? Got no idea what really pays off? The Second Lif...

Rate How To: Massively: Cinemassively: Making shirts for Second Life in ArtRage

Original at VirginWorlds MMO external link    Mon, Jul 14

While many residents, including this blogger, hung up their Wacoms, Torley Linden has an instructional video that just might help us out! Using ArtRage, a program that offers both free and paid versions, Torley shows us how to use the ...

Rate Patch: Teen Second Life 5th Birthday Celebrations - Update 4

Original at Daniel Voyager's Website external link    Tue, Jun 24

By Daniel Voyager New Updates for TSL5B: (updated 24th at 2:15pm SLT) Confirmed that M (Mark Linden) will be doing a Live TSL Talk on Thursday 3rd July, 2008 at 11am SLT at TG Mulimedia Stage, bookmark it on your calendars. As seen today, there are no ...

Rate Opinion: Guitar hero

Original at Reno News & Review external link    Thu, Jun 5

Reno News & Review, NV - One model for the sort of virtual environments often used as teaching tools is Linden Research, Inc.'s web-based program Second Life. Second Life is not a ...

Rate How To: Playing Movies in your Second Life parcel

Original at Hibernia on the Skids external link    Wed, Jun 4

By Hotspur O'Toole This is the basic, out of the box way Second Life displays movies in world. This is essentially the same method that Torley Linden gives in his tutorial video (not flash streaming, just displaying a regular movie file). ...

Rate How To: Configuration Reading TutorialVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at blip.tv external link    Sat, May 3

Learn how to read configuration files with Linden Scripting Language (LSL) in Second Life (SL). After viewing this tutorial, you will be able to:Create a scriptRead each line of a note cardSkip over commentsSkip blank linesNotify the owner of the lines with unknown settingsUnknown set...

Rate How To: links for 2008-04-17

Original at How Now Brownpau external link    Thu, Apr 17

By Paulo Glossary of SL lingo. Because when you say "dragged out of inventory into the sandbox" instead of "rezzed," avatars laugh at you. (tags: secondlife language). LSL Tutorial - Second Life Wiki. Guide to Second Life's Linden Scripting ...

Rate How To: Using the Second Life Wiki

Original at The Metaverse Journal external link    Fri, Apr 4

Torley Linden has released a lengthy video tutorial on using the Second Life Wiki: Related storiesMarch 20, 2008 -- 22 more Second Life tutorial videosMarch 5, 2008 -- Second Life release series of micro-video tutorialsFebruary 28, ...

Rate Second Life CEO Stepping Down

Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, Mar 17

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By Brian Ashcraft Linden Labs founder and CEO Philip Rosedale is stepping down. The Second Life developer will seek a CEO with more management and operational expertise. Rosedale will stay on as chairman of the company's board. Even though SL has been the victim of hype machine backlash, the company says tha...

Rate How To: A safari vehicle for Uthango / SL Africa

Original at Virtual Opportunities for Research and Teaching in CISM external link    Sat, Feb 23

By Atticus ‘A Speed Guide to Virtual Driving in Second Life: Find out how to use Linden Scripting Language to control virtual vehicles in Second Life.’ » http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/35357. animated in the following video: ...

Rate Opinion: “Exploring Reality in Virtual Worlds” with Piet HutVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at UgoTrade external link    Mon, Jan 14

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Piet has started a Qwaq Second Life Liason group with Kat Lemieux, a Director and Founder of The International Space Museum in Second Life. “Kat has been a wonderful mentor for me here in SL,” Piet told me. Henrik Bennetsen (formerly Henrik Linden), from Stanford, was instrumental in getti...

Rate Podcast: Robin Linden On The Issues

Original at metaversed.com external link    Tue, Jan 8

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By Caleb Booker This week's guest on Metanomics was Robin Harper, (known as Robin Linden in Second Life), the Vice President of Marketing and Community Development for Linden Lab. You can view the video or download the audio via the links above, as well as subscribe to the feed over at SLCN for all future ev...

Rate The Grid Live Year in Review for 2007

Original at The Grid Live external link    Tue, Jan 1

By Stone Culdesac Real Lawyers in a Virtual World Real lawyers making real money from Second Life. Second Life Drops the Hammer On Gambling Looks like the end is in sight for people earning a living using gambling and casinos in Second Life as Linden Labs has posted a new policy concerning gambling inside SL.

Year 2007

 

Rate Patch: QuickTime vulnerability in Second Life

Original at Second Life Update external link    Sat, Dec 22

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 ...

Rate Second Life News for December 16, 2007

Original at The Grid Live external link    Sun, Dec 16

By Stone Culdesac From: Second Life Herald Empty Position Leads to Linden PR Void Quote from the site - Earlier this week, residents learned of the departure of Cory Ondrejka aka Cory Linden aka SL’s own Flying Spaghetti Monster, from sources as varied as Massively, the recipient of leaked e-mails, to CBS...

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Original at metaversed.com external link    Wed, Dec 12

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By Caleb Booker Also known as "Hamlet Au" in Second Life, he was Linden Lab's official "embedded reporter". Currently he runs New World Notes and writes for GigaOM, as well authoring several books: "Second Life", "Second Life: The Official Guide ", and an upcoming book "The Making of Second Life: Notes f...

Rate Podcast: Virtual Retail And Pushing The Technology

Original at metaversed.com external link    Thu, Dec 6

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By Caleb Booker Stroker has 20 employees in real life. Some are paid in USD, some in Linden Dollars, but they are registered employees of the company earning regular paychecks. He also has 14 in world employees who are compensated in Linden Dollars or land.

Rate How To: Cool New Performance Feature - Video

Original at PacificRim Exchange external link    Thu, Nov 22

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By pacificrimx Also included is coverage of the new First Look Windlight viewer and how to use Avatar Imposters to boost performance in crowded areas. Worth checking out. The “Official” Second Life blog has a great tutorial video by Torley Linden on the Lag Meter feature: This video tutorial covers: Wher...

Rate Podcast: Virtual Finance And The Reality Of The Linden Dollar

Original at metaversed.com external link    Wed, Nov 14

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By Caleb Booker IntLibber Brautigan: "I don't see the Linden Dollar as a fiction or as a license. The Linden Dollar is 100% fake as the US dollar is," he stated, which caused quite a bit of feedback in the backchat. "This is my real-life job, this is my real-life living, and these are real dollars I'm pulling ou...

Rate Patch: Second Life News for November 6, 2007

Original at The Grid Live external link    Mon, Nov 5

By Stone Culdesac 6th Linden Labs will be upgrading the server systems making up Second Life on Tuesday, November 6th. This update has a number of bug fixes and some new functionality. Changes: llGiveMoney() will now be throttled to limit disruptive ...

Rate Patch: Today in Second Life - Thursday 11 October, 2007

Original at Second Life Insider external link    Thu, Oct 11

By Tateru Nino Median concurrency for the day was 37274. The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.37 (lower is better). Linden Lab introduces new liaison staff: Patch Linden, Kosmo Linden, Trinity Linden, and Kate Linden. ...

Rate How To: Second Life Tips and Tutorials

Original at The Grid Live external link    Fri, Oct 5    3 related articles

By Stone Culdesac Here are some video tips and tutorials for Second Life, this first one is another from Torley Linden, more inventory management help, Second Life Tutorial - More inventory management tips. Second Life Tutorial - More inventory ...

Rate How To: A Speed Guide to Virtual Driving in Second Life

Original at DevX external link    Wed, Sep 12

By Jeff Heaton Find out how to use Linden Scripting Language to control virtual vehicles in Second Life.

Rate How To: Second Life Tips and Tricks

Original at The Grid Live external link    Thu, Aug 23

By Jimmy Daniels Torley Linden started this off by posting a video of how to turn the typing animation and sound off, something I have been doing for awhile, it is so much better without it. Here is the video: SL TuTORial - How to turn off the typing animation and sound Posted to Technology Videos [...]

Rate Earn Free Lindens

Original at Make Money in Second Life with Chino Yray external link    Sat, Aug 11

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...

Rate Second Life witnesses first case of copyright action for virtual property

Original at MMORPG blog external link    Wed, Jul 4

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By Isaac C. Alderman was the virtual author of a bed (for Adults only, let's leave it at that,) that sold for US 45 in Second Life. For those who aren't familiar with Second Life, you should know that the virtual money they use in-game (called Linden Dollars) has a corresponding value in real life. This be...

Rate Tetsuya Mizuguchi planning Virtual Tokyo for Second Life

Original at MMORPG blog external link    Wed, Jul 4

By Karl B. Tetsuya Mizuguchi - Image 1 Lumines creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi has been tapped by Japanese ad firm Dentsu to create a Virtual Tokyo for Linden Lab's popular MMORPG Second Life. This according to the latest issue of Japanese gaming ...

Rate Court sides with Bragg in Second Life suit

Original at Qj.net external link    Fri, Jun 1

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By Glen D. Bragg responded by filing a lawsuit which cites Second Life's terms of service as unfair and "one-sided." To make matters worse for Second Life parent company Linden Labs, Chief Executive Officer Philip Rosedale was named the defendant. Linden Labs filed a motion to take Rosedale's name...

Rate Japan, Brace Yourself For Second Life!

Original at Kotaku external link    Tue, Mar 13

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By Brian Ashcraft Okay, I know SL. You know Second Life. But a good chunk of Japan has no friggin' clue. That's all about to change. The game's maker Linden Labs is rolling out a version for The Land of the Rising Sun. What do the pundits think? Real money at stake, an active virtual world — the scare factor is just kick...

Rate Linden Answers Forum closed

Original at qj/mmo (Feedburner) external link    Sat, Jan 20

By Ian C. They explain that Linden Answers was originally intended as a place where they could pay attention to issues of broad usefulness to the SL community. Unfortunately, the format hasn't kept pace, and Linden informs that Linden Answers has been flooded with questions that belong in other a...

Rate Linden Answers Forum closed

Original at Qj.net external link    Sat, Jan 20

By Ian C. They explain that Linden Answers was originally intended as a place where they could pay attention to issues of broad usefulness to the SL community. Unfortunately, the format hasn't kept pace, and Linden informs that Linden Answers has been flooded with questions that belong in other a...

Rate SL, Open Source and Franchising

Original at WebProNews external link    Tue, Jan 9

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I found 2 very interesting points when reading the Linden blog post about the client open sourcing."A lot of the Second Life development work currently in progress is focused on building the Second Life Grid - a vision of a globally interconnected grid with clients and servers published a...

Year 2006

 

Rate Media Enter Second Life But Its Potential Still Untapped

Original at Micro Persuasion external link    Wed, Nov 22

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...

Rate 'Second Life' develops education following

Original at eSchool News external link    Fri, Nov 10

 MD - Nov 10, 2006 video games such as "World of Warcraft" or "The Sims Online." Users download free software that opens a portal to Second Life, and Linden Lab's servers draft ...

Rate Podcast: Secondcast #25: “Send Pants”

Original at SecondCast external link    Thu, Jul 6

By johnny Johnny and the Secondcasters interview Philip Linden a.k.a. Philip Rosedale on the 3rd anniversary of Second Life and the 6 month anniversary of Secondcast. Topics range from the new open user registration to the changing culture on the grid and the “Get in Philips Pants” contest. Send your p...

Rate Podcast: Secondcast #10: “The Future in High Resolution”

Original at SecondCast external link    Sat, Apr 1

By johnny The CEO of Linden Lab, Philip Rosedale (Linden) answers questions asked by the Secondcasters. Questions were submitted by Second Life residents. The interview will be presented in two parts as episode 10 and 11. Download SecondCast Episode 10

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