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ByronStar SL Project - an IDE for Second Life
Nice Eclipse editor for LSLJEC Warns IRS: Do Not Tax Virtual Economies
" ... issued a press release warning the IRS to not tax participants in on-line games." Odds on they will anyway - wars against abstract nouns have to be funded somehow, after all. Via the SWhy tech leaders think Second Life could be a gold mine
Some interesting comments on SL in relation to business. IBM's Ian Hughes is interviewed, along with some interesting comments from Rosedale on corporate metaverses / intraversesFROM 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 goEVE Insider
"The preparations for the attack on the Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate (IAC) began almost immediately after the Battle for 9UY." Description of a vast in-game operation by an EVE player;EVE Online Mega-Corporation Goes Public
"...something that’s rarely if ever been seen in EVE before: a mega-corporation that’s beholden to its shareholders, a company that will publish financial statements, and whose first order of busNice Work Retrieving That Magic Sword... But Now You Need To Pay Uncle Sam For It
"Note that the politicians aren't talking about virtual items in the game that have been converted to real dollars or other assets [...] Instead, they're looking at actually taxing the items withOpen 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 entireIBM's 'secret island'
"... IBM's latest research project - a "secret island" within the confines of Linden Labs' Second Life massively multi-player games environment ... " Everyone's getting on-board, sThe 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 ineightbar » Blog Archive » Complex system modelling in Second Life
"...he has built an modeller in Second Life that [...] produces a self organizing atomic looking structure showing how (as in this case) multiple software systems could be interconnected."U.S. Congress to Investigate Virtual Economies
" ... the U.S. Congress is in the preliminary stages of looking into virtual economies such as Second Life’s and World of Warcraft’s, and the public policy issues surrounding them." The fun'Sony/BMG Hits Second Life With Ben Folds
"The official launch is October 19, with a meet-and-greet and then Q&A with Epic Records artist Ben Folds." Ben Folds rocks! It'll be interesting to see how the content industry does inIs Metaverse Neutrality Dead at Linden Lab?
"Linden Lab is contemplating a solution that would create a privileged class of users [...] with everyone else limited as to the functions available or the locations in which their scripts and obScottish Girl Rockers to Gig in Second Life
"The Hedrons will do the real-world part of the gig from Scotland’s Radio Clyde, and will also provide a shoutcast stream. The band is promoting themselves as “the first UK artists to do a gig inDon’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.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...The Innovation of Insecurity
"Well, here’s the thought I’ve been recently incubating: Linden Lab is already planning another virtual platform." Hmmm. Could be interesting - SL going open source?PlayStation Home: William Gibson's Vision Realized
Pointed out by Captain Gibson himself, this article doesn't quite get the point - though the development is still interesting, IMHO. Virtual worlds are going to get real ubiquitous, real fast.Second Life Sketches: Things People Buy
"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.
