Today marks the start of a week’s worth of celebrations honoring Second Life’s 6th year in business. The birthday celebration will last a week but the impressive resident exhibits will remain open for an additional week. The party will include events, guest speakers and musical performances. Second Life co-creator, Phillip Linden, will be delivering the […]
By Emmett Burnett
Open wide and say ahhh. You haven’t heard that in Second Life yet. Bet you haven’t received dental care here either. That could change because your future dentist may be here now, filling virtual cavities.
Students at the University of Maryland - Baltimore Virtual Dental School will have the opportunity to study and train […]
Compiled by Avarie Parker
This month most of the players on our Traffic Report reclaimed their spots in the top 10. Phat Cats jazz club hung on to the #1 spot, out-ranking long-time chart topper, Frank’s Place. It looks like Second Life residents also preferred the nude beaches of Wilder Islands to Frank’s Brat Pack era […]
By Sigmund Leominster
There are two elements of the Second Life® virtual world that make it more than “just a game;” the ability to create items and the ability to sell them. In fact, these elements form the basis for a virtual economy where goods are exchanged for monetary units – in this case the Linden® […]
By Sigmund Leominster
There are two elements of the Second Life® virtual world that make it more than “just a game;” the ability to create items and the ability to sell them. In fact, these elements form the basis for a virtual economy where goods are exchanged for monetary units – in this case the Linden® […]
By Sigmund Leominster
In an article for the Wall Street Journal, Jeremy Liew, Managing Director of the venture capital firm, Lightspeed, posited three reasons for why people buy virtual goods. His theory is that “people buy digital goods for the same reasons they buy goods in the real world; (i) to be able to do more, […]
by Richard Hackathorn and Emmett Burnett
One of the commercial applications for Second Life is immersive learning. And this is not only for universities and colleges. High-tech firms like Adobe Systems and Microsoft are using SL as a unique learning environment.
(Richard Hackathorn, aka Hack Richard in SL, stands at the entrance of the Adobe Virtual Classroom.) […]
Today marks the start of a week’s worth of celebrations honoring Second Life’s 6th year in business. The birthday celebration will last a week but the impressive resident exhibits will remain open for an additional week. The party will include events, guest speakers and musical performances. Second Life co-creator, Phillip Linden, will be delivering the […]
From June 15 - 21 2009, thousands of Second Life residents and creators will come together to support the American Cancer Society’s vision of a world without cancer. Friends Fighting Cancer (FFC) will transform almost half a million square meters of Second Life into a fantasy wonderland: the Fantasy Faire 2009 to benefit Relay for […]
Come to Fashion Week June 01 - June 08, 2009 to see the latest designs in shoes, handbags, clothing and much more!!! Fashion Shows, dancing, mingling and all the fun you could possibly imagine during this 1 week event at the Monogram Virtua Convention Center, located on Monogram Tria.
| Phat Cats, Owner - Brianna Talbot | ||
| Sexy Islands, Owner - Gunter Vandyke | ||
| Franks Place, Owner - Gymmy Sinatra | ||
| The 6th Element, Owner - Dakota Neumann | ||
| Purgatorio, Owner - Kora Zenovka | ||
| Midnight Reflections, Owner - Missbehavin Neva | ||
| Laguna Bay, Owner - Martin Mounier | ||
| Remembrance, Owner - Luxa Budan | ||
| SLeek, Owner - Hummer Corleone | ||
| House of V, Owner - Vveronica Pony |
Every year, SF based Bay Area Video Coalition brings filmmakers together with technologists to develop new media strategies for their projects at the annual Producer’s Institute. Draxtor Despres had the chance to speak with Spanish-American documentarian Chelo Alvarez-Stehle about her project on sex-trafficking, called “Sands Of Silence”, which will be accompanied by a flash-based game.
Compiled by Avarie Parker
This month most of the players on our Traffic Report reclaimed their spots in the top 10. Phat Cats jazz club hung on to the #1 spot, out-ranking long-time chart topper, Frank’s Place. It looks like Second Life residents also preferred the nude beaches of Wilder Islands to Frank’s Brat Pack era […]
by Sigmund Leominster
You don’t just have a meeting with Lissa Maertens; you have an experience. Words like ‘driven,’ ‘hyper’ and ‘manic’ spring to mind – and can it be coincidental that there’s only one tiny letter between manic and maniac? Perhaps her effusiveness is simply a symptom of her whirlwind lifestyle which is centered on […]
by Emmett Burnett
Walking through the vast vehicle show place that is the SEAT auto emoción Island, I can’t stop humming the Beatles tune “Baby You Can Drive My Car.” But as my guide, Second Life’s Barrabas Zabaleta explains; this involves more than just driving a car. “We want visitors to have a bold interactive experience. […]
By Emmett Burnett
Open wide and say ahhh. You haven’t heard that in Second Life yet. Bet you haven’t received dental care here either. That could change because your future dentist may be here now, filling virtual cavities.
Students at the University of Maryland - Baltimore Virtual Dental School will have the opportunity to study and train […]