Second Life

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.

By gamepolitics The creator of Second Life in Education, a wiki designed to document the educational uses of the online world, has received notice from developer Linden Labs that the site infringes on their trademark. Massively notes that one of the infringements in question centered on Linden Lab’s SL...

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...

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

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

  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 ...

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 ...

By Ⓟ Ari Blackthorne™ In direct response to this diatribe beyond that it’s entirely uncalled-for, anyone running a business actually expecting to earn real life money from it have better damned well be conformable giving their real life info to Linden Lab. Anything else is fraud in a legal sense. An there are ma...

Second Life plans to clean up the streets of its virtual mainland by providing stricter control of adult content and sending racy material to a separate faux continent. The announcement comes as Second Life creator Linden Labs moves to enhance the ...

By Landsend Korobase X doesn’t really care about or read Second Life blogs, and doesn’t care about “who” I am or even what I do, he just likes talking to me for me. He doesn’t require my opinion on the future of Linden Labs or how to get work in-world, or where the cool places to hang are, he just enjoys his Second Life a...

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...

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

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...

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. ...

Virtual Worlds  India - May 13, 2008 The primary aspect that connects Sun and Second Life is open platforms. Linden Labs, the founder of Second Life just provided the infrastructure that would ...

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...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

By Jason Lee Miller The gods of these worlds are by no means collectively imagined, nor are they anthropomorphic or democratic. Lawyers don't deal in world-gods, so they label them differently: the virtual world providers. An example would be Linden Labs, which runs Second Life.

By Brian Ashcraft Avatars are important, but confining. One avatar in one game won't necessary be usable in another. IBM and Second Life developer Linden Labs have joined forces to figure out a way to make avatars interoperable. An open avatar would allow individuals to keep their same basic appearance and d...

By Michael McWhertor Granted, I've never actually "played" Second Life, as online social interaction is two spots higher than attending a Russian-American "bear" cuddle party on my list of enjoyable pastimes, and the closest I've come to partaking in Linden Labs' eyesore of an alternate reality was an abo...

By Jason Lee Miller Because, you know, nobody ever games the system in the real world… …but it does show one of the big questions that are going to face many more online worlds, as events within the virtual worlds end up in real world courts. Linden Labs Marc Bragg Virtual law social networks

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...

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...

By kotaku.com Linden Labs, the makers of Second Life, have scored another round of funding, to the tune of $11 million. The company's not profitable, and doesn't know when it's going to be profitable, but this cash should keep them in servers and admins while allowing them to create Japanese and German v...

By lsmith Only instead of a jail, it's a giant, empty cornfield that Linden Labs uses as a virtual "timeout" according to Clickable Culture (we grabbed the image from there, too). The cornfield is a place where temporarily suspended accounts are sent, folks the game has banned are just unable to log...