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Scottish 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 inIn a virtual world, an actual job may be waiting
TMP is the first company to set up a real-world recruiting service on Second Life, said Louis Vong, TMP’s vice president of interactive strategy. Until now, recruitment in the virtual space was limiteDon’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.Second Life Sketches: From Hell’s Kitchen to Dune
"I ducked back into the subway just as a 4X4 vehicle the size of a small house roared up the hill into the junction and ran over a dozen people." Warren Ellis reports from the metaverse fronNew World Notes: A SEXUAL CENSUS OF SECOND LIFE
"Seen this way, maybe 10% of this location depicts commercial content that is unambiguously sexual. (And this in a white hot center of avatar-based sensuality.) If it's just 10% here, how much smMy 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...Meet the metaverse, your new digital home
"The Internet in 2016 will be an all-encompassing digital playground where people will be immersed in an always-on flood of digital information, whether wandering through physical spaces or divinThe 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?Interview With the Agoraphobic: Fighting the Fear in Second Life
"Roberto Salvatierra, aka SL resident Roberto Salubrius, is a medical student from San Jose, Costa Rica, who suffers from the fear of open places and being out in public that is known as agoraphoA Reason for Writers to Get Their Asses to Second Life
"Has some future reality intersected with ours? Is this some elaborate publicity stunt? We don’t know, but we’ll play along." Strange things are afoot in the metaverse.Taking '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 walWhere 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 t
