"Instead of tasking a massive team of developers to create their content, the developer behind SL, Linden Lab, simply built an infrastructure and the content creation tools necessary for other pe

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A couple of months back we saw Reuters plant a reporter in virtual world SecondLife, now German tabloid giant Bild are to launch an in-world virtual newspaper called the Avastar and will sell for 150

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"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 SL

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"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 orienteering

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"A new virtual wonder has sprouted from the digital landscape. A recreation of the Chichen-Itza, commissioned by the Mexico Tourism Board ..."

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"...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."

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"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."

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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.

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"...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."

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"Here is the ultimate Second Life paradox: while Residents as a whole love their freedom, for the most part they have never shown any collective love for democracy’s more strenuous duties."

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"Taking a step into the new frontier, NASA Ames Research Center, under the direction of Simon "Pete" Worden, has launched an island in Second Life..." Better late than never. Have

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"I’ll usually yank the map down, away from the mainland, until I start seeing islands. I’ll find an island name I like, and double-click a random point on the island to activate the teleport. And

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"...the new market would allow Second Life residents to invest their Linden dollars in Entropia, and vice versa. The new market will also include other virtual worlds such as IMVU." It's sta

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One of the best pieces of Second Life journalism I have read so far, and a fascinating story in its own right.

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"Governments should apply real-world laws and regulations to virtual currencies in online worlds like Second Life to prevent potential money laundering, fraud and tax evasion, a report from a Bri

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"The simple truth is that, at any given moment, there’s the population of a small village, at best, wandering around a place the size of eight Manhattans." Warren Ellis on the loneliness of

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"The Amazon islands aren’t quite done yet, Jeff says, but from what I could glean in my visit, they seem to have succeeded in being “very SL-friendly, not overly corporate,” as Jeff says they wer

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Nasdaq CEO [says] he could imagine opening up a stock exchange in Second Life. “We have actually contemplated it ... The first life is hard enough, but we’re fans of it and we pay attention to it and

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"JG Ballard always promised, or threatened, that the future would be boring. The proof of his miserable dictum is all over the grid." Warren Ellis reporting from beyond the membrane.

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"It amuses me, this week, to do a photojournal. I imagine it amuses the poor bugger who has to do the coding substantially less, but Second Life is hard." Warren Ellis - friend of editors ev

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"...IBM is launching a new mainframe platform specifically designed for next-generation virtual worlds and 3D virtual environments." Big Blue looking to get back into the game - literally?

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"Brazil’s main opposition party is taking the country’s often acrimonious politics into the virtual world even though there may still be few Brazilian Second Life residents."

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