On behalf of the Teams, Team Captains, Mentors, and Planning Committee, of Relay For Life of Second Life 2008, I extend a heartfelt and soul shaking thank you to the residents of Second Life for your support and participation.
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Relay For Life of Second Life 2008
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Streaming Diplomats: the challenges of working with real and virtual teens and adults
Written by rikomatic
Today I helped organize a pretty successful mixed-reality Global Kids event, featuring Dr. Francis Deng, the UN Special Representative on Genocide, speaking about Darfur and the UN's response to situations like these. The Online Leadership Program of Global Kids, which I'm a part of, i...
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Second Life Building Example - Animated Water PumpJohn previews an animated 17th century water pump in this Second Life building example. The episode opens with a shot of a soon-to-be completed 3-masted pirate ship. TexasKat is putting the finishing touches on the ship prior to O2 Digital Media's move to a new Second Life region (sim). The a...
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Cybersex in Virtual Worlds Affecting Real Life
Written by arcticpenguin
Anyone can create an avatar and roam around Second Life for free, but real money can be used to enjoy the perks. Linden dollars can customize one’s avatar in greater detail through clothes, poses, skins, and other accessories that can be bought at Second Life stores. A monthly fee of $9.95 ena...
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Second Life to Run Network Operations & Data Centers ??????
Written by Laura
Like today's webpages, virtual worlds can also include windows to the real world. "The Second Life platform provides a generic way to bring live content into the 3-D virtual world, where you can drive interaction of objects," notes Joe Miller, vice president of platform and technology d...
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Relay for Life in Second Life raises US$200K in 24 hour event
Written by rikomatic
Beyond the funds, everywhere I went throughout the sims, I ran into pockets of people sharing stories about people they had lost to cancer, or their own struggle with the disease, and their commitment to help find a cure. And the sharing went beyond the metaverse, with SLCN.tv doing a live v...
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Second Life news and blogs - July 23, 2008Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Second Life news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.
• Black Swan Couture: Fashion Inspired By Metaverse Locale -- by SLHamlet from New World Notes
Written by Wagner James Au
Finally, I brought up the recent joint announcement made by Linden Lab and IBM that they'd managed to move several avatars from Second Life to Open Sim, the open source virtual world. This could eventually create a market for interconnected virtual worlds, but moving mere avatars was a ti...
Original story at GigaOm .
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Copyright issues
Written by Ciaran Laval
There was also a furniture maker whose name escapes me, RL furniture maker whose products were being sold in Second Life, but I can't recall whether that was a copyright issue over the designs or a trademark issue over people using their name.
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It?s Official, we cannot be Supporting Second Life after Today
Written by SLHerald
What if you plan to keep using Second Life? We will continue to give reasonable notice, to be clear, and stick with new Second Life versions, as new versions will continue to be released and improved or not supported. Whoresday, July 17th, 2008 at 5:43 PM by: Phatt Linden Back in early May 200...
Original story at Second Life Herald . Related stories include: It’s Official, we will Not be Supporting OS 10.3 “Panther” after Today - Official Second Life
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The Real Second-Life Killer ?
Written by Evansmom Goodspeed
… hasn’t been invented yet. However, I predict it will be a game that can do shoes better than Second Life, because if they can do shoes well, then everything else will have to be fabulous, too. You think I’m crazy? Well, maybe. But I also know the most undersung geniuses in SL are the [...]
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The Utility of Serious Games for Marketing
Written by Maggie Greene
Serious games" refers to the use of games and game technologies for non-entertainment purposes. Traditionally, the education, health, and military sectors were the primary actors in this domain, but in the past few years, marketing has arisen as a major sub-domain of this area. Example...
Original story at Kotaku .
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MMORPG Weekend Warrior: Warhammer's removed features, Second Life grows, more
Written by Enrico S.
Not all is dreary in the MMO world this week though as Second Life has announced that its virtual world has expanded by 44 percent. Linden Lab, the developer of the game, pointed out that this massive growth spurt was due to a few of their new additions to the game such as the Openspace land prod...
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Interview: Linden prepares for an OpenSim future
Written by Eric Reuters
In the wake of the recent first avatar teleport between Second Life and an OpenSim region, Linden VP Joe Miller, better known to Second Life residents as “Zero Linden,” spoke to Reuters about Linden Lab’s long-term strategy.
LINDEN LAB’S NEW REVENUE MODEL
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Second Life Virtual World Expands 44% in Q2
Written by Zee Linden
User-to-User Transactions grew over 14%. Total user-to-user transactions, a measure of the gross domestic product in Second Life, grew 14.3% during the quarter from an annualized rate of $300 million in Q1 to $338 million in Q2. Resident spending remained a healthy $0.87 per user hour.
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Second Life premium growth flat over past 12 months
Written by Eric Reuters
Even as Linden Lab’s base of paying customers shrinks over the past year, the total hours spent by avatars inside Second Life has increased dramatically. In May of 2007 total usage of Linden Lab’s virtual world was about 20.8 million hours. A year later the number spiked to almost 32 million h...
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The Pandora?s Box of Second Life!!!
Written by SLHerald
“Griefing can take many forms in Second Life, from shooting, bombing and pushing to more subtle forms such as intimidation, spamming and harassment. Griefers may be classified as follow:
And the following blog with real-life cases is chilling enough to scare a hard core Second Lifer – ma...
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Opinion: Second Life?s sad birthday desaster
Written by tao.takashi@gmail.com (Tao Takashi)
But the hope is in competition. And this comes from… Second Life itself because there are already efforts underway to create a world based on Second Life ideas independant of Linden Lab. One is OpenSim, an open source implementation of the Second Life server which makes big steps forward an...
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For substance abusers, help in a virtual world
Written by Eric Reuters
SECOND LIFE, June 5 (Reuters) - “Hi, my name is Gracie, and I’m an alcoholic.”
“I suggest, particularly to the newcomer, to get to RL AA,” Crighton J. said. But as a veteran of real world Alcoholics Anonymous, he’s found a community, friends, and support inside the virtual world.
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Opinion: Microsoft Dev Community in OpenSim/realXtend
Tish: Are you hosting sims for the community for free?
Zain: No I am still a Developer Evangelist but I am the guy for Virtual World Evangelism which is what we call it internally at Microsoft and I guess externally as well. It is known as Virtual World Evangelism.
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Second Life new CEO is a REAL Newbie - itsReal
Written by aplink
– M Linden - Second Life Blog I doubt his jump into fantasy by being a tray of donuts will last very long, for real commerce to be achieved lifelike avatars are highly desirable - check out the upcoming more real world twinity. New CEO’s First Week Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 4:50 PM by: M Linden...
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Metabirds: Interview with Naoyoshi Shimaya,CEO
And, most companies will come into virtual worlds after people/users come into virtual worlds.
Nao: I think…
“3D chat rooms and lite weight 3D and “walled garden virtual worlds” are just services.
Second Life and other CREATIVE virtual worlds are next infrastructure for the internet.
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Opinion: My music journey, courtesy of Second Life
Written 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...
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Opinion: Random musings about things griddish
Written by Morris Vig
It was another crazy day in RL today, so please bear with me while I vent as I review my NetVibes collection of Second Life-related blogs: The Second Life blog is old news. If you really want to know what's going on in Second Life, you need to pay close attention to the Second Life Grid Status Rep...
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Nesquik. Right time, Wrong place?
Written by Nic Mitham
A few days ago Nesquik launched into Second Life onto the Activ8 island. For anyone who didn’t know, Nesquik is a milk flavouring product owned by Nestle and promoted primarily using the Nesquik bunny. At the venue, QuikSk8 Park, the focus is clearly about having fun, with free skateboards...
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Earn Free Lindens
Written 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...
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