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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 withEVE 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;ByronStar 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 goJEC 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 SW-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 DemocraSecond Life Sketches: Night Tours
"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‘Second Life’ Crumbles Under Own Weight, May Bar 2nd-Class Citizens
"It looks like a long-predicted tipping-point for Second Life is finally upon us: The virtual world platform, not being scalable in any useful way at present (despite earlier claims to the contraNew IBM Mainframe Platform For Virtual Worlds
"...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?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." WarEve Online - politics in MMOs
"...the company that makes Eve ... says it will tackle the problem the way a democracy would. In what appears to be a first, the company plans to hold elections so that players can select memberIBM Rolls Its Own Virtual World
"The company is using Garage Games' Torque Game Engine, a low-cost game platform supporting dozens of simultaneous users (about as many as a single Second Life area)."
