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Ethical considerations of a robotic battlefield
The ethics of using robots on the battlefieldThe Human Cloning Debate and Embryo Splitting
Cloning in biology is the process of producing populations of genetically-identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce asexually. Cloning inTips and Tricks For Getting Started in Second Life
Tips and very useful information for newer users of the Second Life 3.D Platform. Includes definitions of most common slang, tip for using the client interface, general navigation and etiquette.My Metaverse Can Beat Up Your Metaverse… Can’t We All Just Multiverse Along?
For those keeping score, Google is gearing up to pwn the Virtual World market, while the Japanese are building their own private garden and China is getting ready to enter the third dimension...Content Creation: LSL Reference On-Demand
Presenting the LSL Reference On-Demand Gadget. For use while in the world of Second Life as a Heads Up Display (HUD) and standalone object.Don’t Forget to Advertise Your Virtual Location on That Old Web Thing
With the popularity of a large virtual world with a poor performing search engine built into the client you'd think more people would be using secondary SEs and directories.FROM THE WORLD TO WEB (Updated)
"What you're looking at above is a Second Life screenshot that changes everything. It's a new, open source[-based] version of the SL viewer ..." Which runs in a web browser. The wall just goOpen source web-browser based Second Life client
"Katharine, which should surprise no one, is a British teenager who built this partly out of "boredom, wanting to talk to people in" Teen Second Life. Nothing like disrupting the entireOne Of The Only Certainties In Life: South Korea To Tax Virtual Assets
"The Korean National Tax Service has announced they will be tacking on value added tax (VAT) to real-money transactions (RMT) in virtual worlds beginning 1 July." Yeah, good luck policing thInterview: HiPiHI, a 3D digital world from China
"We recently had the chance to talk to Cindy Jiang, head of marketing at HiPiHi, to understand a bit more what HiPiHi is about and how it aims to attract users."Metaverse Roadmap Report
"... it's the first attempt to synthesize current and emerging social, economic and technological trends around virtual worlds, immersive networks, and ubiquitous information."ByronStar SL Project - an IDE for Second Life
Nice Eclipse editor for LSLSecond Life Sketches: The Great Fissure
"The Great Fissure represents a slight change in style, and greater ambition, in that the area is designed around a geologic feature, a deep canyon cut through the middle of the sim." My SLIBM Thinking of Virtual Passports
"... the company is considering ways in which avatars might travel between virtual worlds while keeping their essential appearance and possessions intact."Jason Stoddard on creating a personal online brand
"Before the tactics, a word of advice: personality. Yes, personality. Don’t try to please everyone. Don’t try to be someone you aren’t. True personality comes through, and it’s the most likely waEve Online - politics in MMOs
"...the company that makes Eve ... says it will tackle the problem the way a democracy would. In what appears to be a first, the company plans to hold elections so that players can select memberSecond Life Geocaching
"Obviously, in Second Life, no GPS is required, but based on my experience, there is still plenty of time spent seeking caches, particularly the difficult-to-find ones." Yuppie orienteeringHoward Rheingold Interview: Cooperation in virtual worlds.
"...I asked him some questions about his perspective on cooperation theories and how they apply to a Second Life setting and on corporate utilization of the medium."Bringing free software down to earth
"Mark Shuttleworth, software entrepreneur and space tourist, believes that open-source software is not just for geeks." Well, duh. Via reBang.Opportunity Fading: Why The New Second Life Offers Less for Business
"If given a choice between clear guidelines with firm restrictions, and fuzzy guidelines with questionable but somewhat more lax restrictions, I know which one I’d choose."Terra Nova: The State of Second Life
the question has always been open, at least to some ‘resident’s, as to whether owning Second Life means that the residents are thus the only ones with any right to govern it.Code is law
"A short, loaded phrase with enough shades of layered meaning to engender pleasure, satisfaction, worry and disgust. The phrase itself means a whole lot of different things, depending on contextWhy Pornographers And Gamblers Are Good For Second Life
"...the underworlds of porn and gambling are likely to go down in history for making some of the greatest contributions to emerging virtual worlds, including Second Life."Multiverse Wins $4 Million in Funding
"Multiverse, the open virtual-world building platform complete with universal browser being developed by some early Netscape employees, has just won $4.175 million in funding..." Blimey.The Surface of the Metaverse
"The appeal of Surface (etc.) for computing tasks, however, will be limited in many commonplace arenas ... the real market for multi-touch is in the world of the Metaverse, especially in the Aug
