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Dear Readers, July finds SLENTRE.COM celebrating our 6 month milestone.

By Avarie Parker I recently had the chance to ask Google about the future of Lively, it’s new 3D chat platform. Most importantly – would they be making any improvements that might make it more of a draw for Second Life residents, such as user generated content and access to content creation tools?

Virtual World Marketing Expert to Present on Government Usage of Virtual Worlds at National Conference of State Legislatures Leigh Rowan, VP of Interactive Marketing for virtual worlds marketing firm TheSLAgency, will present at 8:00AM on Friday July 25 on a panel entitled “A New Life for Online Government.” Rowan’s presentation at the NCSL will focus […]

Gibson Guitar, the world’s premier musical instrument manufacturer and leader in music technology announced the launch of the official Gibson Island on Second Life.com (SL). Gibson is the first major music manufacturer to establish an official island in Second Life and has advanced the opportunity for consumers to participate in an exciting virtual world complete […]

By Avarie Parker It has been a week since Google unleashed Lively, their contribution to the 3D web. There has been a lot of hype surrounding the giant’s entry in to realm of virtual worlds with some observers suggesting that Lively might threaten or ultimately eliminate Linden Lab’s Second Life. After spending some time in […]

By Sigmund Leominster, News Editor The Second Life® television company, Metaverse Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), is expanding its operations to become a broader media company. Back in March 2008, SLentrepreneur talked to MBC’s CEO, Robustus Hax, and his vice chairman, ClaudeVon Streeter about the TV station and their plans for expansion. At that time, they talked […]

By Avarie Parker Clive Jackson, the creator of Blink 3D and inDuality, took some time to answer SLENTRE.COM’s questions regarding the release of his new products. He is the founder of Pelican Crossing, a development firm working toward creating a web portal for 3D environments. You can read more about his thoughts on the future […]

Clive Jackson, the creator of Blink 3D and inDuality, has some very specific suggestions regarding the development of the Metaverse. He has compiled these in a comprehensive white paper entitled Metaverse 2.0. You can download the entire document from his company’s website here.

Press release from: VirWoX (openPR) – The “Virtual World Exchange” (VirWoX), a trading platform where users of the virtual world “Second Life” can exchange its fictual currency “Linden dollars” for real-world currencies such as the Euro, British Pound and Swiss Franc, today announced its operating results for the 2nd quarter of 2008. Compared to the […]

SLentrepreneur Magazine subscribers can now download the latest report here – http://www.slentre.com/the-slentrecom-sl500/. The number of total visits in June increased slightly from 21,086,174 to 21,641,542 . No official word on when Linden Labs will be changing the way they rank SL location popularity.