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By Compe Lockwood I visited the library today. Okay, that sounds pretty mundane – but don’t click that mouse just yet! This is pretty cool. My librarian is an avatar and so am I. In this library, books aren’t checked out; they’re rezzed. Patrons don’t drive; they’re teleported. Dewey Decimal System meets Second Life. You […]

Proposals for presentations for the 2009 NMC Symposium on New Media and Learning, a special 2-day live online event to be held March 24-26, 2009, are being solicited through March 9, 2009.

by Vissarion Obolensky Syd Chase is getting attention. The former Army Combat Engineer instructor and Washington D.C. undercover private detective became an entrepreneur in the 90s, signed up again after 9/11, then returned yet again to business, rapidly becoming an independently wealthy international financial advisor and mentor. Now CEO of the Syd Chase Group at […]

Its that time of the year again. The American Cancer Society’s signature event, Relay For Life, is getting underway in Second Life™. Last year, residents raised over L$55,000,000.

By Emmett Burnett Five times a day, 15-year-old Jean-Bosco Shy walks a Rwandan jungle trail in search of water. Carrying a jug on his head and thirst in his soul, he reaches his destination; a pool of murky goo villagers call “drinking water.” Jean-Bosco is lucky because, in the next 24 hours, over four thousand […]

By Jae90 Nizna You may already have heard about PhotoLIFE. If you have heard of it, you may have a strong opinion. But fan or not, it would be difficult to deny the innovative thought that has been put into its development by creator OomPoppaMowMow Snookums. This high tech virtual photo studio, now in its […]

The annual DREAMS Health, Education and Art Fair will be held from February the 15th through the 28th, 2009. This will be the 5th year for the Fair at Dreams. Each year, the Dreams Community Fair is provided as an outreach program to connect and educate SL residents about support groups and services with an […]

Second Life’s premier boxing gym adds a new dimension to virtual combat with the addition of a mixed martial arts arena.

Compiled by Avarie Parker There are some big changes in this months Traffic Report. Fashion has emerged as a force and Frank’s Place has fallen to position #2 on our charts. And for the first time in the history of the SLENTRE.COM Traffic Report, we have a new #1 – The 6th Element. The recently […]

by Avarie Parker, aka Lisa Peyton One would think Virtual World Optimization and Analytics are relatively new practices just now coming into regular use. In fact, as long as virtual worlds have existed, someone somewhere has been measuring user activity. Increasingly sophisticated internet developments and increased online activity has allowed for a new threshold of […]