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JEC 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 SEVE 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;Open 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 entireEVE 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 withByronStar SL Project - an IDE for Second Life
Nice Eclipse editor for LSLWhy 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 goWhere Real Money Meets Virtual Reality, The Jury Is Still Out
"As virtual worlds proliferate across the Web, software designers and lawyers are straining to define property rights in this emerging digital realm." MSM catches up with the SL/copybot storMieville's Cactacae Invade Second Life!
"A stampede of human cactus (cactii?) cuts across Goguen, likely spooked by the space dreadnoughts and giant robots that usually rule the desert..." Damn it, that place is weird.Raph Koster Launches New Virtual World Studio
"Raph Koster, revered designer of massively multiplayer online games like Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies (as well as being handy with a guitar and a line of verse) has announced his long-awThe Next Big Thing
"...the Web for many will become the cliched 3D virtual reality that has been so overused as a literary and cinematic device that most of us have forgotten how compelling that vision was when itInvesting time and money in virtual worlds: Caveat Emptor
"In the last decades, we have seen the content business have to adapt to a frightening new reality: The cost to create a minute of content has risen exponentially, but the fair market value of aPontiac Follows Scion Into SL
"The music acts are moving in with their labels. The clothing manufacturers are setting up shop. And it now appears that GM is going to follow Toyota into Second Life..."Second Life, Economic Evolution and the CopyBot
"As Sven Johnson suggests, the important story here isn't about Second Life per se, but about the clash between a scarcity-based economy and an abundance-based world." Jamais Cascio on the CA Virtual World but Real Money
"The Second Life online service is fast becoming a three-dimensional test bed for corporate marketers, including Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sun Microsystems, Nissan, Adidas/Reebok, Toyota andSecond Life Sketches from Warren Ellis
"...it fits in with the current understanding I’m coming to regarding SL: it needs to be treated both as experimental ground for communications, and as the biggest digital art installation in tTaking 'Second Life' to the next level
"Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale's avatar took the stage in CNET Networks' "Second Life" headquarters to talk about the metaverse's latest developments in front of an audience of severalAustralia says virtual income taxable
"The Australian government has determined that income earned in virtual economies like Second Life and World of Warcraft should be taxed..."Second Life Business: Nothing Virtual About It
"The idea that there is a community of Second Life residents that are somehow separate from people who live in the real world is one that will have to go out the window if the virtual world contiThe Mating Dance of 0×10201401&gridlouse
"...a virtual ecosystem which, while not yet as complex as Svarga’s, comes complete with an open API that other residents may use to add their own species to the mix."Second Life Sketches: Two Worlds - Fame and Infamy
"The other perception, of course, is that SL is a psychosexual nightmare given virtual form, where giant penises roam the land and disturbed people wear the forms of bears and then have repulsiveThings I want from Second Life:
"Someone to stand up and say that creating replicas of bland middle-class homes for people to stand awkwardly in and not actually do anything inside is just retarded and a stark and utter waste..Steampunk Snowball Fights For Second Life
"...one of Second Life’s most prominent Steampunk figures, is in the process of putting together “a triple-barrelled Snowball Cannon, as well as an attachment which makes one vulnerable to the exHelp the Electric Sheep Destroy Television
"She looks innocent enough ... but Destroy is an avatar of unique stripe; she’s controlled for the most part by users dialling over to the Destroy TV Web site, where they can make her chat or walJohn Edwards Second Life HQ vandalized.
"They plastered the area with Marxist/Lenninist posters and slogans, a feces spewing obsenity, [...] all the while harrassing visitors with right-wing nonsense and obsenity-laden abuse of Democra
