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Peer-to-Peer Market for RMT Trading Debuts
"Sparter is a new entry in the real money trading industry that uses an eBay-like “peer-to-peer” approach for the buying and selling of game gold for World of Warcraft and other MMORPG online gamPOLITICAL CAMPAIGNING IN THE METAVERSE
"With the next US Presidential elections just a year and a half away, primary campaigning has already begun in earnest-- in the Caucus and main primary states, and in Second Life."Second Life Sketches: Worlds Within Worlds
"...since I’m not about to spend Real Life or Second Life dressed only in yellow leather thighboots and a length of rope knotted around my junk, you can be damn sure I stay on the boat." WarW-Hat is Emergent Gameplay?
"In Second Life, the Something Awful Goons are known as "W-Hats" [they] have been responsible for some of the most outrageous builds in all the virtual world -- including satirizationsDon’t forget your Wellies!
“By flooding Second Life we hope to demonstrate the potential devastation that climate change could have on the environment,” Ogilvy London director Giles Rhys Jones saidSecond Life Sketches: The Art Of War
"Before now, I’ve had to draw a weapon and blow people off my land to discontinue attacks. Look at that sentence again. It makes me sound like I’m living on frontier land, or, perhaps, like I’veSecond Life Sketches: The Island Of Lost Souls
"Also, it turns out the locals don’t like it when I demand that they eat the brains of their kills to take their strength." Warren Ellis on fine form in the metaverse.Second Life Sketches: A Night On The Grid
"I stand atop one of the island’s lovingly-designed bombed-out modern buildings, watching a giant fox bound down the street clutching a sci-fi weapon the size of a dinner table." Intrepid meSecond Life Sketches: Happy Talk
"It’ll be a terrible thing, to be old in a new world, living on Name Of The Rose Island and being sexually assaulted in the night by monks with Care Bear bodies and Sean Connery’s head." WarSL Economy Misunderstood Again - Ted Castronova
"It's not a con game. It's a village-sized market. In fact it's a tourist attraction-type village: the big numbers of the people you see are one-time visitors[...] But it's not thick; it's tiny.THE MOSQUE OF CHEBI-- AND MUSLIMS IN SECOND LIFE
"Defining my experience and perspective of SL as a Muslim, compared to other perspectives, is something I would approach cautiously." Intriguing.FIGHTING THE FRONT
A decent piece of Second Life journalism on the recent protests against the French Nationalist party presence in the synthetic world. Weird, but fascinating. This is our future, folks. Where is my pigJohn 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 DemocraMy 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...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.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?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.IBM'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, sDelta’s Online Corner » SLeek
A mini-client for Second Life that means you can IM etc without a full GUI client. Sounds great, but Win only.The 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 inWhy 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."eightbar » 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."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 AugU.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'
