Second Life

This is my avatar Serena in my (her) studio in SL, watching an avatar (Paisley Beebe) interview another avatar (Dusan Writer) about the future of marketing in Second Life and in social networking in general. Paisley Beebe is actually an Austrailian singer/musician named Leonie Smith. In...

My name is Helen Fermate, aka Starshine Halasy. I'm an Amsterdam based multi media designer.�My specialities are: web- graphic- and game design, interaction, animation and illustration.In Second Life I run the virtual "Gallery Fermate", where I represent RL & SL artists and organi...

By rss@youtube.com (NFargisNOTHINGsOwner) Author: NFargisNOTHINGsOwner Keywords: Depeche Mode Second Life DM SL Tour Of The Virtual Universe NOTHING Club In Chains Gahan Gore Fletcher Machinima Animation Added: May 28, 2009

Artist Josh Ellingson's first SL exhibit.

Portuguese Wedding filmed LIVE in Second Life by Cecil Hirvi for Kiss and Nux.

By rss@youtube.com (Adibeaman) Author: Adibeaman Keywords: Second Life Batmaan Roleplay in second life superheroes Added: April 23, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (Ecophia) Author: Ecophia Keywords: Second Life Earth Week Machinima SL Day NOAA The Gathering of Nations Greenpeace Amnesty International Imagine Network Humlab University Innsbruck Added: March 28, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (NoWittyNamesLeft) Author: NoWittyNamesLeft Keywords: The Space Pope Second Life SL Griefing Annoying Annoyance LOTSA SPAGHETTI Youtube Fraps Footage Added: March 25, 2009

This is an audio visual immersive build within the world of Second Life (SL) for the Burning Life festival which attempts to mirror some of the ... video.aol.com

By rss@youtube.com (abNorthVideos) Author: abNorthVideos Keywords: ab North SL intro Added: March 11, 2009

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

By rss@youtube.com (Anekretia) a brief improvisational cover of For the Love of God originally by Steve Vai Author: Anekretia Keywords: Anek Fuchs Steve Vai Ftlog for the love of god shred guitar solo SL Second Life secondlife lindens live concert Added: March 2, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (Psyco565) Here's a video I took to introduce folks to this avatar and it's features. Enjoy! Author: Psyco565 Keywords: Beetlon SL Second Life Grendel's Children avatar grendel Added: March 1, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (FlorineWriter) I enjoyed it by the dance of Abby in Element the 6th of club of SL ELEMENT the 6th @ Gol8/SL Second Life. This world is 3Dvirtualreality game of Online.Florine is my Avatar name.I am doing the game play while listening to a favorite tune. I am taking a picture ofonline play by using videocapture. I a...

By rss@youtube.com (tweetyiscool29) One of the very first "videos" I made way back in June. Put this together as a tribute to DJ Danton - one of my alltime fav DJs in SL :D - for his 2nd rez day. Danton, I'm sure I speak for your entire fanclub when I say WE LOVE YOU! :D :D :D Keywords: SL Second Life DJ Danton tribute Rez Day

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

By rss@youtube.com (dolfinmagikpro) A video capture of my iTunes Visualizer. This will be used as my SL Media file. Author: dolfinmagikpro Keywords: SL Second Life iTunes Visualizer Added: February 17, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (lordgreggreg) Plugins for Second Life, free and open source here http://code.google.com/p/par/ get the notecard from me in world --RadarChat.dll [Included in PubComb, no need to load] Adds api support to MEGA boost your radar to be the best in SL!!. No probes, no lag, instant response and updates. Your rad...

By rss@youtube.com (FlorineWriter) I love Moon.I was dancing with moon,nice tune.Be happy Christmas and new Year! music: Last time by moonlight by Enya Location:Heart Reef Resort 白の楽園 used particle:ROYAL SENSE in Second Life. This world is 3Dvirtualreality game of Online.Florine is my Avatar name.I am doing the game play whi...

By rss@youtube.com (FlorineWriter) Music: Eat You Up by BoA DJ/SL:Feshe Market Dancer:Nao Klees, Florine Writer/SL We love BoA, COOL song!This film doesn't have the music video. Synchronous recording.It is online game 3D virtual world Second Life.. daily life.Tone quality and the image of this film are bad for the spec and ins...

By rss@youtube.com (RennYifu) Sweet Privet Glubsch jumps around in Parcour Style.This is only a fun video from TRAUM in Second Life. wish a lot fun with it:) Keywords: Privet Glubsch Second Life SL Parcour Rambo david garrett smooth criminal Traum Secondlife jump fun camo camoflage army Pulp Fiction Soundtrack

By rss@youtube.com (dlh242) Author: dlh242 Keywords: SecondLife SL Battletech Mech Mecha Armored Core Xxander Snook Double Games Simulation. Added: November 9, 2008

By rss@youtube.com (RMBCityHall) Cao Fei (SL: China Tracy) + MAP OFFICE (Gutierrez + Portefaix) At Prospect.1 New Orleans November 1, 2008-January 9, 2009 (Preview days: October 30 & 31) Part of the new Prospect.1 New Orleans art biennale, "NO LAB in RMB City" is a stark, surreal vision of New Orleans in Second Life. A spe...

By rss@youtube.com (Nagachief) This is a demostration of SL:SD2, a SL client that supports dynamic shadows by moon and sun. It is very experimental and unstable. It has unbearable fps issues, too. Author: Nagachief Keywords: second life dynamic shadows crux nagachief Added: October 26, 2008

By rss@youtube.com (netunolesado) Video usado na loja Football Planet na Vila SL Brasil no Second Life. Author: netunolesado Keywords: Football Planet Second Life Added: March 4, 2007

By rss@youtube.com (StudioDell) Learn how to register and create your Second Life avatar. Author: StudioDell Keywords: StudioDell Home tech tip Second Life SL alternate reality Added: February 20, 2007

By rss@youtube.com (TalpaDropzone) On February 9th Talpa's DropZone officially opened with a cross-reality concert by Dutch rockband 16Down. An audience in Paradiso Amsterdam could share the experience with an audience on DropZone in Second Life. Afterwards the band joined the SL crowd for a meet & greet.

By uganda Second Life (SL) is a virtual world developed by Linden Lab. Second Life enables its users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virt...

By SLHamlet Want an economical way to shoot Second Life machinima? There's an app for that. As demonstrated by Botgirl Questi, who captures SL video with her iPhone: I actually like how the iPhone gives the footage a glassy, abstracted appearance. (This...

By Disbelief LL do claim they have a new viewer in the pipeline. Apparently it’s completely different to the current viewer.  Whether that is good or bad is yet to be determined but early reports indicate that those who are already familiar with the current viewer will struggle to quickly adapt to the new...

By johnwaugh Stewart said nurse educators contemplating using Second Life should:  find a Second Life mentor and learn as much as you can about how Second Life works; network with other nurse and health professionals using SL using online communication tools such as blogs, YouTube, Slideshare and...

By SLHamlet SL fashion designer Sasy Scarborough has a long and tormented post on the heartbreak of content theft, sent to me by my style columnist Iris Ophelia. Here is Sasy talking about one of her regular routines, tracking down stolen content,...

By Katherine Comet I have modeled now since June 09, and I can honestly say I love what I have added to my SL talents.  I have met more people than I thought possible in an online venue; many of whom I consider wonderful friends and would enjoy meeting in person some day.

By SLHerald Metaplace a mostly harmless substitute The Herald has joined http://theartistsvoice.org/ in an almost entirely symbolic SL content creator sympathy strike November 4th and 5th and 6th. While taking a break in tracking the transition of Second Life into Suit Life,...

By Iris Ophelia Exclusive to NWN, Iris Ophelia's ongoing showcase of all things stylish in SL I've decided to give you a pretty pic up top because it's going to get real ugly after the jump, believe me. There's been a lot of...

By Kitty O'Toole A lot of people dismiss SL relationships as pure twaddle, and I’m sure for some people they are nothing more than a passing fancy..but for a minority the love blossoms into something that is all too real, even if it is just limited to the metaverse. I also know of relationships and real-life wed...

By SLHamlet Bettina Tizzy has just announced she's suspending her NPIRL blog, the leading voice for art created in Second Life and other immersive virtual worlds. She is not departing from SL or her role as metaverse art maven, however, just reportedly...

By insidetimshead 3) I may have given up on Second Life too quickly. Maybe it took viewing several avatars hearing my presentation virtually, but I finally see that Second Life does have untapped collaborative and communication potential. Maybe I’m just flattered someone from NASA would show up in SL to hea...

By SLHamlet My challenge to other SL bloggers: If content theft is pervasive, why does in-world spending continue to rise (fascinating conversation in the Comments)? IBM and Nokia Developing Augmented Reality Conferencing System in Second Life Second Life Tells Twitter: Enjoy the...

By Maya Firehawk This is a dress, but not like as ” AMERICAN DYNASTY ” style… It might be more useful as a Real clothing for your daily Second Life. It has just Released on XStreet SL. sculpted* This is a dress, but not like as ” AMERICAN DYNASTY ” style… It might be more usef

By daleinnis Art opening tomorrow! You should go! Everyone will be there! an exhibit of the SL photography of Prandi Capalini at The Small Gallery, Shengri La Art opening tomorrow! You should go! Everyone will be there! The Photography of Prandi Capalini an e

By Daniel Voyager Today (31/10/09) marks my 3rd year Rez Day in Second Life. 3 years have passed by and I have loved every moment of it. In days that’s 1095 days old in SL since I first registered for (TSL) = SL back on 31st October 2006. I transferred to the Main Grid last December and since then it’s been awesome.  I...

By SLHamlet Recently virtual community visionary Howard Rheingold described Second Life users as "a tiny cult following", which he clearly didn't mean pejoratively (Howard's an early supporter of SL), but in the sense that it's still relatively small, and the platform awaits...

By SLHamlet Philippe Pascal, partner of the metaverse company SnowCrash Digital (he's ppmediadev Blinker in SL), suggests Second Life entrepreneurs have a beta release of their products: Based on their feedback you can decide if the product is ready to go, or...

By SLHamlet PESD Island" is a blog devoted to an island in Teen Second Life, where the teacher Norma Underwood (Noreen Strehlow IRL) blogs her experiences educating a group of kids in SL. "I work with inner city youth who do not...

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) This will take place Tuesday, November 3rd at 10am Pacific (check local time) in the NMC Adobe Connect seminar room http://go.nmc.org/connect-nmc. Tell all your avatar friends to join us for this free event where we will have a conversation with Leslie about the project and what it might me...

By SLHamlet Here's a simple challenge for fellow Second Life bloggers. Here are the most recent economic numbers for in-world spending, as compared to previous quarters, going back to 2006: In this chart, where is the evidence that in-world content theft is...

By Kittenanne Mousehold Still you won’t find a game play excerpt in there. (Combat games in SL are rather clunky. It’s more for the socializing and role-play than game play.) This is probably the best machinima I’ve seen from SL! It’s a great promo for SL! I disa

By Daniel Voyager Oliver Szondi in Second Life has been working on his project called MyPrimOnlineMe over recent months.  MyPrimOnlineMe is where you can share your pictures from SL and RL. Register today and receive 100L$ for your uploads. Oliver Szondi in Second Life has been working on his project called...

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.

By Daniel Voyager Check out the Second Life Work microsite, CLICK HERE. Second Life in the News is another page worth looking at with loads of news media links. Find out where Lindens are speaking on the new events page on SL Work microsite. There is a great up

By camrynfouroux 1) No, I am not a trekkie nor do I love Star Wars 2) No, I do not own a pocket protector 4) I am not a member or player of World of Warcraft 5) I like hip hop, pop, country, all genres of music and I enjoy fashion and designer handbags. So don’t judge! There are all types in SL! <3

By Daniel Voyager I do have a few Second Life stats widgets that displays data on how many total Second Life residents there are at any given time of the day on my SL Feeds Portal, LINK. Currently the data says there are more than 16,969,776+ registered signups for Second Life and that is expected to reach 17 mil...

By SLHamlet My RSS feed reader is overflowing with Second Life blogs, literally displaying thousands of posts I haven't had a chance to read yet. Which have you come across lately that definitely deserve a look, and why? (Yes, self-promotion is fine.)

By Daniel Voyager SL Feeds was created in March 2009 and came out of beta on 20th July 2009SL Feeds is a large compliation of Second Life community RSS/Atom and SL widgetsYou can subscribe to over 1, 000 SL RSS feeds and lot’s moreSL Feeds has organized SL tabs making it easier to find what your looking forSL Fe...

By nazzlane Nazz: A RL or SL class? Nazz: By the way … that’s a cool looking avatar. Xenophile: Oh, just excited to be in SL it’s the right time and place to be for me, look forward to what the future holds. Glad to have gotten into Second Life when I did four years ago.

By chigadee To kick off the celebrations:   Best of Second Life Performer, Edward Kyomoon will be performing on the Plaza at 1 PM SL for half an hour.. SO DON’T MISS IT. a Halloween Hunt which will run until midnight SLT Oct 31. Look for 10 witch hats filled with amazing stuff for everyone!

By Daniel Voyager The Showcase tab in SEARCH displays popular best inworld locations of interest to exisitng and new residents of Second Life. You will see a list of interesting and cool places to visit in Second Life. This is AWESOME! Recently I’ve discovered there used to be 6 tabs (March 2009) for Showcase...

By johnwaugh After the conference, co-leader, Terry Neal (SL: Tere Tinkel), of Blended Solutions, said  that the Project would consider setting up a virtual world roadshow  for those Polytechnic educators and administrators who had expressed  interest in learning more about education in Secon...

By SLHamlet Due to the popularity of last week's "Top Three Things I Look For In a Second Life Blogger's Post", I'm going to try an experiment inspired by one of my favorite TV shows, Kitchen Nightmares. Here's how it works: If...

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 Harper It comes down to the whole reason DRM (Digital Right Management) is a useless farce. Because if you can see it or hear it – you can copy it. The same is true with anything and everything on the Internet – including inside any virtual world (Second Life, too).

By Daniel Voyager SL Login outrage lasted for about 1 hour on 1st September 2009Garth FairChang passed away in early September 20099/11 remembrance in Second Life for 8th anniversary on 11th September 2009New Citizens Inc Blog comes back online around mid September 2009Second Life Content Creators Su...

By Harper Saffia Widdershins, the publisher of the blog and virtual magazine PrimPerfect, has started a new blog she calls Step UP.  The goal appears to be to create grassroots support for action by Linden Lab on the content theft problem.  Other attempts have been made before, such as the “public se...

By Daniel Voyager SL Breaking News Orange Island entered Second Life in October 2007Orange Island was a very successful “experimental” SL project.Orange Island is sheduled to close down on Tuesday 29th September at 11am SLT/PDT. Official Statement from the Orange Team, CLICK HERE

By Gwyneth Llewelyn The untiring Gwen Carillon, one of the best jewelry creators in Second Life, and the long-time president of the Content Creators Association, a SL organisation “to support, inform and assist creators in protection of original content and other content related issues”, has launched a...

By SLHamlet SL Fashionista Hybrid Ansar recently challenged her fellow style bloggers thus: [F]ind or make a big girl/big guy shape... and style it so it's super cute! Now this is quite a challenge, for the avatar women of Second Life are...

By SLHamlet Strange Pixels is an SL fashion blog devoted to styles with a fantastic edge, and answers the burning question, "Where can vampires, cyberpunks, space commandos, elves, and succubi getting ready for a night on the town go to get the...

By SLHamlet It's SL Blogger Friday on New World Notes, and to start, let's talk about new Second Life fashion blogs. What are your favorites? (And yes, you can mention your own.) I'm particularly interested in blogs which cover virtual fashion with...

By noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) I won’t call myself an artist, but since I have registered myself at SL, I have been using the opportunities in the virtual world to enhance my skills in Photoshop. I wasn’t familiar with the program at all at the beginning, and, although I am not posting as much images as in the beginning, I st...

By Harper “Looking for counterculture? Second Life is also full of furries, ninjas, steampunk balls and an enormous virtual recreation of Burning Man. Thousands of vampires seek victims alongside wandering elves, marauding cyberpunks and club-going Goths. Come join the party.“

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...

By Gwyneth Llewelyn Linden Lab released an awesome new way of creating plugins to display media — any media — inside Second Life. While everybody was thinking, “cool, we can finally stream Flash Video into SL!” (which is certainly one of the very first plugins released so far), this video (thanks to Mal Burns f...

By Daniel Voyager I’ve been exploring Space (NASA) landmarks in Second Life recently and found many great places on my adventures around Second Life. Check out my Space in SL Flickr set. from space rockets to space launches and more. I believe there are Space Google Videos filmed in Second Life, go and check th...

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

By Greg L Branded items may be listed or sold only by the brand or intellectual property owner or its authorized agents. A "branded item" is an item that: Alas, because I have way too much to get done, this has to be just a short post. But this recent post from New World Notes caught my eye -- Xstreet, which...

Many companies have a presence in the virtual 3D world Second Life (SL), but one of the most surpising industries to spring up in SL in the past several ...

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

You can also see a slideshow below of pictures from the Frank Lloyd Wright Museum of SL. For additional news stories about Second Life and virtual worlds in ... and more »

By nazzlane SL Artist Gracie Kendal “I think this was in one of your note cards, ‘Like many art communities of the past Second Life influences how I create art as well as how I exhibit.’ What has the second life community meant to you as an artist?” I asked.

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 »

By Daniel Voyager 26th October 2008 2nd February 2009 1, 733 Members July 2008 Thanks for your interest! We are currently not accepting new applications for the Second Life Mentor group. Please watch the Second Life blog for updates and more information. The Second Life Volunteer Team

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...

By nazzlane “How many artists are exhibiting?” “That would be wonderful, thank you.” “On the top floor we have an SL artist celebrity … do you know Feathers Boa?” Katerina asked. I waited for the two ladies to sit before settling my virtual self onto a cushion. “This is a very nice set up.”

By Gwyneth Llewelyn But at least I have to share with you something. Great changes are ahead for the SL client (and hopefully for the simulator software too). We’re not going to see much yet about those, because 2009 is still a “stability” year for Linden Lab, which means that most of their teams are focusing on ma...

By PacificBlue Hanly As promised, the fair provides everything for the neko, fairy, fantasist, drow, goth, vampire or – Well, I was about to say the more ‘normal’ person too, but in Second Life nobody is normal, are they? But for those of us sporting more human-looking avatars, there is plenty of nice clothing...

By Harper I think that would be a day with no crashes or slowdowns due to lag, where I could find a new sim and build that I could explore and maybe be the first to report on.  With luck, it would have locations that I could use for fashion shoots as well as just plain interesting views to share with everyone....

By Chip Poutine(noreply@blogger.com) As well, if you're interested, have a look at www.simvineyard.com, which documents the development of a Second Life island completed for a startup California winery. The island has since been taken offline, however you might find the blog to be an interesting read. Some of the "SL blog round...

By Daniel Voyager SLim – The SLim client lets you chat with anyone on your SL friends list  SL Friends Monitor – Monitor the online status of your friends IGoogle: Online Second Life friends - Add this gadget to your IGoogle Homepage My Account: Login @35 – Visit my Tutorials page for more! Quick tutorial for...

By nazzlane Bakersfield Kidd: Well, that’s a funny story. Actually I’m not, wasn’t a big gamer at all, specially online games, never played SIMs, WoW, CS or any of that … the only online community I had ever really been active in was Myspace before I got to SL, but I’ve always been a BIGTIME YouTube user, l...

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 Gwyneth Llewelyn A few of us who are in Second Life® mostly for business have long ago complained to Linden Lab, in the years of 2005 and 2006 mostly, how little they cared about businesses in SL, and how little effort they put in expanding and opening the virtual world to healthy business from the real world.

By Ari Blackthorne™ Then there are all those “Second Life is Dead or Dying” news reports and blog entries. But SL has always been dying because commercial endeavors into Second Life are utter ‘failures‘ according to the ‘authoritative’ media ‘in the know’.

By Ari Blackthorne™ So reading through this highly negative diatribe about how bad Second Life is and what losers all the residents are, I still couldn’t help but smile wide, feeling seriously nostalgic. And it brings back what are now fond memories, but brutally disappointing experiences at the time.

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

By Prad Prathivi Real Life: A combination of a First Life and a Second Life. And possibly a third one if you’re in WoW too, in which case you have *way* too much time on your hands. Release Candidate: A viewer which a lot of residents use as it’s more stable than the standard viewer, but resolves Linden Lab of havi...

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.

By Prad Prathivi Vickie rezzed into Second Life in August 2007 and has been building since Day One. She’s from an MMO and games development background, having been a part of Ultima Online, before entering Second Life. She left Ultima after becoming disillusioned with the industry, and joined SL after hear...

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

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) So now comes along Sparkle in the game, an iPod Touch/iPhone app for communication in world via your mobile. The interesting angle on Sparkle is you can also connect to the SL beta grid as well as OpenSim. Plus, you can create different account connections for multiple avatars.

By johnwaugh The news conference, which took place in February in Second Life, gave eight Egyptian political bloggers a chance to directly question James K. Glassman, the head of public-diplomacy  under former President George W. Bush. Is this the SL future of ‘real’ reporting? Those who attended the...

By brthauer Please note: PWP is run almost like a real life Media company, and is in it for the long haul, don’t read any further if you think Second Life is “just a Game”. Please submit a resume with both RL and SL experience. And please write a short letter about why you want to work for PWP

Futurismo Manifesto 100x100: dal Macro Future di Roma a Second Life . it.truveo.com

By Morris Vig I think it’s best to de-link the increasingly personal nature of my blogging with the Second Arts blog, so I’m starting a second blog - The Morris Vig Experience - to focus on my random musings over things SL (and RL).  Second Arts will focus more more tightly on things related to the Second Li...

By johnwaugh EVENT “Virtual Worlds - Best Practices in Education” Conference March 27-29, 2009 in Second Life. Following considerable  SLED list debate on the “future” of  the SL education conference  - especially, apparently, from those MUVE “believers” who who want a  “real life” gabfest exper...

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) Sessions were held at the NMC Conference Center on February 17 and March 1, and as people got more comfortable in Second Life, the amount of good backchannel (and frontchannel) discussion grew, with several people volunteering as “Google Jockeys” (looking up URLs related to topics bei...

By SLHerald A personal account of a Second Life FemDom community A personal account of a Second Life FemDom communityby Barbie Starr, SL and RL Dominatrix[This story is a collaboration of those who worked hard at OWK in SL and kept at it through thick and thin. FemDom in Second Life...

By Gwyneth Llewelyn Hiro Pendragon pointed me to the latest bit of Valleywag nonsense, where you can see that once more the End of Second Life® is predicted, falsely claiming that everybody has lost interest in SL except educators. Anyway… In memoriam Valleywag, R. I. P., my last comment there:

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

By rss@youtube.com (mysteryn11) DCS2 (http://www.dcs2.org) is a combat system used in role-play and combat environments in Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com). We use it in Sunnydale SL (http://www.sunnydale-sl.com), the role-playing sim based on the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. In this video we intro...

By rss@youtube.com (draggsoft) Tutorial dla Second Life przedstawiający stworzenie avatara, zalogowanie się do świata oraz znalezienie wyspy Second MCSU link do spolszczonej wersji Second Life: http://rapidshare.com/files/199180594/SecondLife.zip.html

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 Blue The Second Life Blog was once a place where the Lindens talked casually with you about policy, their projects, recent news, the future of SL, etc.  Residents regularly told us that they loved having access to such broad insight into the company and frequent communication with the full ran...

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 Prad Prathivi C Camping - A way for poor avatars to leech money of rich avatars while artificially boosting traffic on a parcel of land. Camping is often frowned upon as cheating, and residents with pitchforks chase down sim owners condoning such activities. D Drama - The official currency of Second Life.

By rss@youtube.com (Gozenko) Hey all here is another video of SL Hope you all enjoy it. Author: Gozenko Keywords: SL SecondLife Second Life Tutorial Trailer food ZiggyZ Beam Gozenko Misty Gladius Jayda Added: February 1, 2009

« ‘Ketchup’: Updates on SL Writing Events, Resources, Contests Jan 19 2009 Written Word: This Virtual Group Offers Tremendous Support for Real Writers Posted by Joan Kremer in Second Life, virtual writing community, writers in virtual worlds, writers' virtual resources I was lucky...

By Philip Linden We’re not done with this project!  We also intend to update the SL viewer to read its map tiles in the same way as the web map, meaning that you will be able to zoom and move around on the in-world map in a manner similar to the webmap, with much better performance than before.   Look for a viewer re...

By t linden Bringing these marketplaces together under the Linden Lab banner will unlock new and exciting opportunities for merchants. We can make it easier for new Residents to discover the wealth of products that can enrich their Second Life experience, and this in turn offers the opportunity fo...

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...

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 rss@youtube.com (StratusBravin) A very simple and basic tutorial on how to take off solid backgrounds in PS and color replacing parts of the body using black and white Author: StratusBravin Keywords: Second Life SecondLife Tutorial photoshop color replace background SL stratus bravin Added: December 9, 2008

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) Agaqin, we provide the survey results for free under creative commons licensing, along with a summary of comparison between the 2007 and 2008 surveys: 2008 NMC Educators in Second Life Survey Summary2008 NMC Educators in Second Life Survey Results

By rikomatic Tomorrow at 1pm, avatars at the opening of the sim will be entertained by the featured performers are the "SL Travelling Wilburys."  Visitors can also check out an evocative art exhibit called "The Last Fir Tree" by Poid Mahovlich (see image above), virtual replicas of sustainable struc...

By Phil Many people started protesting, and many others started talking about leaving SL. And this time, several did. Most of the Second Life users leaving SL ran off to Open Life, an open source virtual reality environment that is quite comparible with Second Life.

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...

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...

By Morris Vig My feeling is that it is not.  I also have a feeling that a lot of other people agree with me, which is why Second Life’s recurring user count has leveled off.  And I’ll stick to my guns in stating that that number won’t go up until Linden Lab makes Second Life as stable as, say, your run-of-the-mi...

By Morris Vig Problem is, the Second Life culture celebrates the exact experience which places the greatest strain on the Second Life system - the shared user experience, of which I will offer examples after the fold.   Thoughts, anyone? I’ve been pleasantly surprised at the interest in Vig’s Unified...

By abbyyv Second Life Introductory Tutorials These are series of screencast of how to get started in Second Life and will introduce you to the Orientation Island is which a very important first step in learning the basic Second Life skills. SL ...

By rikomatic Given the fact that Obama and McCain have been in a virtual deadheat in the real world polls, what is the deal with Second Life?  Are there more progressive, liberal folks flocking to the virtual world?  Is it the age group that tends to dominate SL, the late-20s / mid-30s demographic? 

By rikomatic Meanwhile, many of the most prominent Second Life commercial developers and companies were absent, such as the Electric Sheep Company, Anshe Chung Studios, Rivers Run Red, and Millions of Us.  With the exception of SLCN and SL NEXT, Second Life media were no where to be seen, from New Worl...

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 Elaine Polvinen You can enhance your SL garments by adding your own custom TEXTURES to make the APPEARANCE garments more unique. You can add custom tattoos and unique avatar clothing by getting a set of UV MAP files and using a program like Photoshop ...

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...

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) This was not only taking place in a gorgeuos real world facility, Princeton’s Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, but was also live streamed to a remote audience gathered in the Second Life version of the same room. Jenkins closed with some strong words on copyright, parents using m...

By Morris Vig Which brings me to the present state of affairs at Linden Lab and Second Life. The laundry list of doom-sayers has been ongoing, but I've noticed a few that speak to a more profound problem with the grid: Terra Nova's suggestion that the sluggish SL economy forecasts a "Virtual World Winter...

By rikomatic The rest of the show is really interesting as well, touching in intellectual property issues in virtual worlds, hacker and gamer culture, and a review of the new Age of Conan MMORPG.  Check out the entire show here. For those interested in seeing me speak on the USC Public Good in SL Community...

By SLHerald Novus Ordo Imperialis photo via Second Life Times] by Vegna Fouroux The last time the Second Life Herald covered The Ordo Imperialis was when Novus Ordo Imperialis disbanded. That's all ancient history now. The Ordo Imperialis are now one of the Big Three in SL combat alongside their...

By Morris Vig But you know, I don't regret a purchase...or a minute spent watching live music in Second Life. What a great way to expose yourself to new influences! So go attend a show (SL viewer: Search>>Events>>Live Music) or check out any of the links that I put together for this post. The aven...

Online alter ego  OR - May 5, 2008 The avatar (and the software) did the rest. Second Life (known by users as SL) may be one of the most talked about, least understood new technologies. ...

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...

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Education%20UK/18/36/22 Fathers Johann Barak and Joshua Tuchs (these are SL avatar names), who in RL are two Eastern Orthodox priests in USA, together with Presbytera Anna Hirschel (again, SL name–she is also in RL Eastern Orthodox and based in USA) wil...

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 ...

By Shawn Here's a short video clip I made mostly to figure out how to do it. It shows a one-on-one tutorial going on inside Second Life, at RWU's virtual campus. Here’s a short video clip I made mostly to figure out how to do it. It shows a one-on-one tutorial

By editor Wanna know how to send a postcard from SL to Koinup? Well, look here for a tutorial! Anyway, It is a one clic procedure! Go in your account , set up and copy your Koinup Email Adress and Send SL PostCards to that Email Recipients ...

how to oversize the regular second-life avatar mesh in 13 steps A lot of people in "↑Second Life" (SL) are craving for larger-than-life avatars, but the sliders of the appearance menu only do allow body sizes within 'human limits'. ...

By pacificrimx And since I am writing about the Second Life client, when will there be a network friendly client?!?!? Anyone listening on this one? I made strong suggestions on getting this worked out at the Second Life Views 4 that I attended last March (yes, over one year ago). I would think that this woul...

Juha Hulkko’s Second Life avatar, Jussi Hudson relaxing in his “mirror house” in Second Life - photo by Noelani Lightfoot. Juha and Jussi outside their homes in RL and SL. Second Life picture by Noelani Lightfoot. Radio Arkala in Second Life and Real Life

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 Daniel Voyager Its structure is based on Java and C. A script in Second Life is a set of instructions that can be placed inside any primitive object in the world, but not inside an avatar. Avatars, however, can wear scripted objects. ...

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: ...

By Tateru Nino Filed under: Betas, Video, Tips and tricks, News items, Second Life, Virtual worlds. Notable Second Life blogger and photographer Vint Falken has highlighted Mike Sutton's tutorial videos on moving Second Life content from Second Life ...

Book review: 'The making of Second Life' And so a book like Au's--which goes in depth into some of the history behind SL and uses story after story to paint a picture of why the virtual world ... The Job Interview, Starring Your Avatar New York Times

By chrisguitarte I'll start by talking about Second Life first, which has pretty much consumed all of my time this past week (both in exploring and waiting for textures to stream into my SL viewer). I've always heard some sort of news about Second Life since it first started, and I was always curious, but I nev...

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) The SaLamander Project is an open Second Life education community with a mission to develop a searchable peer-reviewed database of educational builds and tools in Second Life. Using inworld tools - such as the Salamander HUD and on-location surveys - the project hopes to assist SL Educa...

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...

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) We had a great turnout (30+) at the Muriel Cooper Coliseum for the first of a 2-part discussion on Challenges & Solutions for Teaching in SL. Our panel in the middle of the “ring” were students this past semester to from Mali Young (aka Lisa Dawley)’s EDTECH 597: Teaching & Learning...

There are so many but I haven't visited all of them...again Avatrait has a very nice representation....Code Red , September McKinney's, The Cannery is brilliant. Would you like to know more about this artist, read the article in the Sl Herald, and follow her moves on flickr, she is really an except...

By SLHamlet As a perusing of the ongoing New World Tableau series will show, a lot of Resident artists who use SL screenshots as their medium often process their images through Photoshop. The challenge is often figuring out how to use it...

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.

This is a short tutorial on how to use the video featurs of Second Life. I explain the basics of how video works in SL then show you how to create a very simple object that you can use to watch videos in-world.

By Ley Wrangler However the four – with their RL-classmates hangin’ over their shoulders watching – had some fun and got to talk to one of the most dedicated music-community leaders in SL. Questions were asked and lots of inspiration where purchased, I’m sure.

By Juliet Ceres I've made my first video tutorial because I wanted to share how to stream music from iTunes or Winamp or any application to Second Life with nothing more than SL and the push of a button in your Windows volume settings. ...

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 [...]

By Dolmere Talamasca The content is about how to record Second Life voice using a Mac. It involves SoundFlower, Audio Hijack and GarageBand together to record the SL audio. It's really a great tutorial for those interested in SL voice and capturing it, ...

By Akela Talamasca Welcome to the seventh episode of On the Inside, Second Life Insider's Official Podcast! This episode features our interview with Brooke Barmy and Mercury Metropolitan of the Teen Grid! Saeya Nyanda co-hosts with me, and we talk about what it's like on the TG, age verification, SL Views...

Scott Swigart introduces some basic Second Life scripting techniques. He shows how to use a free public sandbox area in Second Life to create primitive objects and script them for interactivity.

By Akela Talamasca I just installed Vista and now getting error message that my video card is not right. It was fine before on Windows XP and there is not an update for this. It is an Nvidia Geforce 7400 which is compatible for Second Life. I am told now that I have a generic card and Second Life cannot load. Do I have to u...

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...

By Wagner James Au How the Virtual World Works To understand how the Graefs can make the claim, you have to understand both the revenue model of Linden Lab, the company that owns SL, and the revenue model of Anshe Chung, virtual real estate developer. Briefly:

Like the computer game The Sims, Second Life is software that enables you to guide your avatar through a 3-D landscape, chat with other avatars, and build objects with tools. But SL, as it’s known to its 300,000 members, or “residents,” isn’t a game. It’s more like an animated version of real...

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...