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Soaring oil prices and inflation could drive dramatic shift in our ...
Royal Gazette, Bermuda - 50 minutes ago
Now there is Second Life www.secondlife.com virtual world, an online version of the known world, which attempts to replicate many of the basic elements of ...

Total Information Awareness Finds its “Second Life” at IARPA
Dissident Voice, CA - 1 hour ago
No word on what world that will be in, but we already know that the CIA has a presence in Second Life and that IARPA has investigated Linden Lab’s world as ...

Virtual Worlds: An Untapped Healthcare Marketing Resource
LinuxInsider.com, CA - 2 hours ago
Virtual worlds such as Second Life offer an environment that's well suited for training, dispensing information and spreading a message. Second Life is part ...

Virtual World: Own an island or a BMW in Second Life
Economic Times, India - 1 hour ago
And it’s not about fun and frolic but the creation of a new business opportunity for all business conglomerates, as the world logs on to a Second Life. ...

Are you ready for avatar rights?
Toronto Star,  Canada - 39 minutes ago
In 2006, digital representatives of real world news outlets arranged an interview inside the online world known as Second Life with an avatar named Anshe ...

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Plastics bags have second life as holders of lunch, trash ...
Tampabay.com, FL - 46 minutes ago
By Lauren Clark, Times Staff Writer Every morning the newspaper lands on your driveway or in your yard. You know what to do with the paper, starting with ...

Wow its been a while since we did this! We are going to give away 6000 Lindens!Take a photograph on a beach, this is a Best in beachwear photo competitionThe winners, one female image one male, will each receive L$3000rules:The winning photographs must contain an avatarBe taken in SecondLife Some post production is allowed Be submitted by email to:jamestjuno@gmail.comin jpeg format before the 11th of JulySubmitting a photograph gives us full rights to publish it and use it in future publication

Air Combat News..... Saturday July 5th - Royal Caledon Air Force Our usual dogfight will take place on Saturday 05 July at 10:00 AM SL time. Location: Meet at "Skies of Tomorrow" in Extropia. It's another free-for-all Anything-Goes battle. Fly your favorite aircraft! The official dogfight for Sunday the 6th is cancelled due to some RL activities. If you'd like to organize one, please do so ;) Pilots from the Extropia Defense Force are welcome to participate. Air Combat News..... Saturday J

This isn't image management: Vivek Oberoi
Times of India, India - 58 minutes ago
If you were to sing this song in real life, what would the second life be? (Laughs) Apun Ka Sath Jo Bhi Ladega/Apun Udhar Se Mudega. ...

Second Chance Treasures resale shop in White Rock benefits East ...
Dallas Morning News, TX - 1 hour ago
"These pets really deserve a second chance at life. That's how the store got its name, and that's really how we feel about them," said Dr. Fling, ...

Reuters/Second Life » Second Life on the Xbox/PS3/iPhone? Avatar Dusan Writer finds an interesting snippet of HTML code on search.secondlife.com which reads: “placeholer page for XBOX, PS3, and iPhone versions of client when they launch next real soon now” Now, we’re not banking on a Linden Lab-supported rollout of Second Life to game consoles and cell phones just yet. Veteran Second Life watchers may recall numerous incidents in which junior executives at Linden implemented policies the com

Virtual project funded
The Nelson Mail, New Zealand - 1 hour ago
A proposal was approved by the Tertiary Education Commission earlier this year for the polytechnic to investigate using the 3D virtual world Second Life for ...

The Slug (NSLU2-Debian), he be toast again (shortly after my last post, ironically). I’m fed up with the rather convoluted way that I have to connect to it, so I’m looking at just getting the smallest entry-PC you can get (a

According to the AvaStar, the banks are back, though only those that have been accredited by Linden Lab. Can anyone explain what the use-case is for using a Second Life bank? I can't really see why anyone would want to do so unless they are somehow able to offer better interest than I could reasonably get in RL. Am I being thick? Is it just to cater for residents that "do not have Paypal or a major U.S. credit card account in USD"? Quick experiment... LeeX (a European SL-accredited bank) is of

Crash survives a horrific iconic death by inches... AGAIN! Tne Black Robes really want that priming powder from last week. Crash, oh, ONCE AGAIN, visits the iron citadel to wrestle with black robes, kick robots and kidnap professor Norton. They capture HIM this time, and tie him to the front of the Juggernaut. They go to ram the gates of the white citadel with crash as a hood ornament. Crash is saved by a cheap device.. Billy gets the drop on the bad guys. They all sneak back into the black tow

There's been growing interest by educators in MUVE's other than Second Life: OpenSim, Project Wonderland, Qwaq, Croquet etc. This past week, I (again) attended the Sled Roundtable that AJ Brooks (pictured left in suit, RL: AJ Kelton) hosts each Tuesday at Montclair State University (3:30 SLT). The focus of the discussion was Project Wonderland and other open grid/source alternatives to Second Life, and on short notice, Alan Levine (SL: CDB Barkley, pictured left in red) joined the group as a gue

How do I use the World Map? is our featured article this week. Learn about Map Legends, Navigation Beacons, Tracking Friends, Creating SLURLs and more!

We’re on a roll this week and have an added special surprise! New and veteran map users alike, a bounty of bear goodness awaits you. Support teams have created Special Team Bears which are placed on I-World Island from now until Monday at 1 p.m. PDT. Here is a little help. I’ll give you various coordinates to land in and then the hunt is on! New to using coordinates? Check out our Article of the Week!

Central Area: I-World Island (107,129,24) or (147, 130,24) or (130,175,26)
In-World Expo Area: I-World Island (177,185,23)
International Area: I-World Island (185,74,29)
Kiosk Area: I-World Island (72,53,23)
Science Laboratory & Museum Area: I-World Island (82,172,22)

Special thanks to VTeam, I-World Team, GTeam and Concierge for these team bears. You will also find bears scattered about from Gail Linden, Teeple Linden and Matthew Linden along with bears from other I-World Team Lindens.

Today our Documentation Team is celebrating Independence Day and our normal office hour held on Friday at 2 p.m. PDT will resume next week. We are leaving you a treat in our absence found near our pier-shaped office in Beaumont: Knowledge Bear 1.0!

Kate Linden

Growing the DEN in SL The high light for me at NECC was to meet the DEN in SL leadership council and some of our SL community and present with the LC. We only had an hour to share everything and we could not do it all. The list of links below takes you to video, and some posts about our session. If you were there or know of a post regarding it please leave a comment and share. One of the objectives of our session was to explain how we built our community in the Second Life ® environment. Any

Web 3.0 - the future of social networking
ZDNet - 1 hour ago
Consider this another Second Life, but also throw in The Sims, your own social network and (if you still remember it). I spoke to the CEO of Vivaty, ...

Cycle of Life: Giving used clothes a second life — Green is gold ...
Adobe Press, CA - 1 hour ago
By Bettina Adragna/Staff Writer Three years ago, when Julie Posada started working as director of production for the VTC Foundation Thrift Store, ...