Second Life

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

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

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

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

By 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...

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) Speaking of a while ago, many of you probably recall fondly the May 2007 Best Practices in Second Life Conference. Completely organized by volunteers, SLBPE was a 24 hour marathon of learning, and logged well over 1400 avatars participating.

By Angela Thomas Posted in cyberculture, Digital Media Researchers, Second Life Tagged: NMC, NMC Conversations NMC Conversation 10 Here is a podcast I did with the NMC Executive team as part of their conversation series. Its mainly about Virtual Macbeth, but also education is Second Life in general.  It...

By Alan Levine We invited Angela to talk about her recent work on Virtual Macbeth, a deeply immersive Second Life experience designed to create a feeling for the visitor of the influences on and psychology of being "inside" Macbeth's head. The NMC Virtual Worlds team built the entire project and brough...

By Katt Linden Hi, Katt Linden here to introduce the next installment of Linden Lab’s new podcast series, “Stories from Second Life.”  These are stories about individuals working in Second Life and their projects. Joni West of This Second Marketing Glenn Linden and Joni West This Second Marketing

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

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

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

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) This book focuses on the skills needed to build applications that connect real life and Second Life. This includes: controlling access to your virtual presence based on a real-world database updating external databases based on what happens in the virtual world

By Morris Vig Anyway, time away (less my hanging out at Mitch Kapor's ballyhooed "important announcement" at SL5B) gives one time to ponder things like my "OMG you gotta be kidding me" RL job and my "WTF happened to Morris?" grid existence.  I'll spare you the RL stuff, but let's talk about the Second Lif...

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

We see these virtual worlds go in different directions. Second Life, which is kind of a stand-alone thing with user content creating a whole world, there are kind of add-ons like Lively with Google which are basically attached to sites like Facebook. And then you have the games like World of...

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 pacificrimx It was a great day for a meeting today. Spring was in the air, and the 'IED Platform Ecosystem and Education Grid status and review' meeting was scheduled poolside at the Splenda Island on the Main Grid of Second Life. I got there early to get a good seat by the pool. The flowers were in bloom and a f...

And, if you were thinking that Philip Rosedale stepping down as CEO of Linden Lab was a sign that Philip was giving up a leadership role in the future of the open metaverse, think again. Philip’s continuing deep engagement with the technical and business challenges of the Open Metaverse wa...

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) more…) Tonight we hosted the opening recepetion for the NMC Symposium on Mashups, one of the NMC’s Online Symposia — this one itself a mashup of venues between web sessions in Adobe Connect and 3D sessions taking place at the NMC Conference Center in Second Life. Some 25 avatars showed up to...

Open Virtual World platforms are just beginning to get on the radar. But open software is clearly the path to the future and as Philip Rosedale (founder of Linden Lab) has said several times re the complete opening of Second Life software (the client is already open), “Only open will win!”

Eben Moglen - Open Source, IPPI panel in Second Life Life 2.0 Summit Spring ‘08 will kick off with the Open Source, IPPI (IP and Privacy/Identity) in Virtual Worlds On Sunday, March 16, at 1 PM PST, with special guest Eben Moglen (his avatar pictured above). The event will be held in the CMP [...]

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) Otis College of Art and Design associate professor Michael Wright took three Classes of Otis digital sophomore students into the virtual world of Second Life where they developed and created content based on a class-developed theme.

Virtual worlds existing in the realm of cyberspace are very much in the focus at the moment. They are now being put to all manners of serious uses and are also encountering various real-world teething problems. Whole companies have established their virtual branches in cyberspace. Follow...

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...

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) We had an excellent session this morning over at the Babbage Amphitheater on NMC Conference Center- MediaGridAaron Oh presented on how grid computing applies to virtual worlds, and the work the Immersive Education project is doing to provide connections and shared access to multiple...

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...

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...

By Caleb Booker There is a movement among Academics to define “Open Standards for Metrics Data” enabling us to share data between different systems. Mason has been working on this concept with Eric Hackathorn (of Maya Realities (http://www.mayarealities.com), known in Second Life as Hackhaven Heartf...

By catherinelinden Featuring CEO and founder Philip Rosedale, the podcast covers the growth of Second Life and how Linden Lab has dealt with the technical challenges of scaling the world, the encroachment of the real world into Second Life, Virtual World industry trends, and the growing competition.

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...

By Caleb Booker We were treated to a sample clip during the presentation that illustrated a bad customer experience, and how it might be improved, using machinima recorded in Second Life. The clip itself was created by hired Second Life residents, and was recorded at pre-existing locations. Using machi...

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) Those still hanging around then moved up to the Vint Cerf Pavilion for a live music jam by Johnny99 Gumshoe, who has a real life avatar who works at Capella University. In addition to his live music stream, Johnny added a new twist- he has an alt avatar cameraman, who’s live video becomes a dyn...

By Caleb Booker RIOT (click for screenshot) is a giant-robot combat system created in Second Life purely as part of a larger development cycle. While the game will be fully playable in the virtual world, it's being created here in order to test different game play concepts and get feedback from the existi...

By Caleb Booker The next Metanomics session will be on Monday, December 3rd. Robert Bloomfield will host, and he has arranged for two in-world business people to come and speak: Stroker Serpentine and Temporal Mitra. We'll explore the challenges of managing virtual businesses, managing virtual emplo...

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...

By Caleb Booker This has intellectual property rights implications as well. It's entirely normal for an email service to say that they don't own the emails you write, but neither do they make guarantees that your emails will never be lost. Backing up emails is a normal thing to do; you'd hate for the only cop...

Mr. Ludlow, who founded the The Second Life Herald (caution: adult content), an online newspaper, is perhaps best known for being kicked out of the virtual world, the Sims Online, after he criticized how its operators, Electronic Arts, ran the metaverse. —Andrea L. Foster

By Mark Wallace That’s Ludlow as in Peter Ludlow, who founded the Second Life Herald, and Wallace as in myself, who occasionally does some work over there. We’re interviewed on Episode #2 of the MIT Press podcast, which you can listen to via this link. (You have to listen through some advertisements for the...

By Caleb Booker The event was introduced by Robert Bloomfield, who as usual had some announcements for future Metanomics events: October 8th - Dan Miller, Senior Economist of the Joint Economic Council of the US Congress talks about the legislative outlook on virtual worlds, from taxation to the Depa...

By TDavid Last week the big story in the virtual world of Second Life was a ban on all forms of gambling for “anything of value.” Today I needed only to look across the virtual street in world to find a casino still operating. When does the gambling ban really begin? How long before they start actually enf...

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) At today’s Posters on the Green Session we took advantage of one group of presenters from University of Maryland University College (UMUC) who were ready with their audio equipped Second Life clients and recorded this audio interview with Julie Commons (RL Gilliam), Kathleen Maloney...

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...

By Akela Talamasca UPDATE: Experiencing technical issues; working on it!] Welcome to the fifth episode of On the Inside, Second Life Insider's Official Podcast! This episode features our interview with Adri Saarinen and Peter Newell, co-founders of Metaversatility, Texas's coolest MDC. Aimee Weber c...

By Namro Orman   “In this episode of Who’s On Second? I talk with Stacy Stone (Goodwillstacy Stindberg). Stacy lives with  Stacy’s transformation into a Second Life healthcare advocate  began when she was 12 and was bitten in the face by a dog. The jaw injury that resulted in facial pain and a series of o...

By Namro Orman   “In this episode of Who’s On Second? I talk with Stacy Stone (Goodwillstacy Stindberg). Stacy lives with  Stacy’s transformation into a Second Life healthcare advocate  began when she was 12 and was bitten in the face by a dog. The jaw injury that resulted in facial pain and a series of o...

The Electric Sheep Company is a consultancy that helps real-world businesses like Starwood Hotels develop online objects and architecture to test-market their goods and services within the virtual online world of Second Life. Giff Constable, who heads up business development for th...

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...

By johnny Jazz Hands Ming and the usual suspects discuss the new Second Life Terms of Service allowing Linden Lab to sell currency. The casters talk about currency, inflation, and the lawsuit disputing some underhanded virtual land sales is also covered.

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