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December 2, 2008. Second Life. The owners of BidSL (http://www.bidsl.com), a peer-to-peer auction service in Second Life that allows Second Life residents to auction their goods, land, and services directly to other residents, has announced that they are selling the entire BidSL business to the highest bidder. BidSL, which consists of a Second Life presence as well as a companion internet site, introduced the first of its kind scripted auction vendor to Second Life with the business opening in September of 2007. Shannon Nohkan, BidSL founder, who co-owns the business with real life husband Jim Allen, indicates that they are selling the business due to new time constraints in their lives. According to Nohkan, neither is now able to spend the time inworld that they believe is needed to continue to run the business effectively. Fittingly for an auction service, the business in its entirety is being sold to the highest bidder via an eBay auction. The eBay auction for BidSL (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem item=260324814827 ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:US:1123) has no reserve and ends on Sunday, December 7, 2008. Nohkan and Allen have offered to assist a new owner for as long as required to ensure a smooth transition to the new ownership. Interested parties are encouraged to contact the owners of BidSL at: support@bidSL.com (mailto:support@bidSL.com) with any questions or to request a tour/demo of the BidSL facilities in Second Life.

December 1, 2008. Second Life. SLENTRE.COM (http://WWW.SLENTRE.COM) Presents the 2008 SLentrepreneur of the Year Award Competition and Awards Ceremony Culminating With Second Life Performance by SL’s Rolling Stones Saturday December 20, 2008. Premier Second Life magazine SLentrepreneur presents nominees for 2008 Second Life Entrepreneur of the Year – voting begins now and runs through December 19. Winners to be announced at 2008 Second Life Entrepreneur Award Ceremony December 20 at 1pm SLT.Contrary to popular perception, Second Life™ is not just a space for fun and games; virtual entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes have been hawking their wares and developing innovative marketing techniques since the popular virtual world launched in June 2003. And today, SLentrepreneur, Second Life’s premier journal dedicated to covering the best and most compelling SL entrepreneurs and their products, announced 13 nominees for the 2008 SLentrepreneur of the Year Award (SLEAC). SL residents are encouraged to learn more about their favorite candidate at the 2008 SLentrepreneur Portrait Gallery in the SLENTRE.COM office in Second Life (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Experience%20Italy%20E/30/162/30), where individual profiles and photos are now available for further investigation and consideration. Voting begins online (http://www.slentre.com/vote-here-for-the-2008-slentrepreneur-of-the-year-award-winner-announced-dec-20th/) today, Monday December 1, and runs through Friday, December 19.

November 27, 2008. Second Life. The Elucian Islands in Second Life are playing host to a virtual climate change conference in December. Speakers will present live from Imperial College London and Stanford University in California, and researchers and university students will attend from the UK and the United States. Co-organised by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Imperial College London, the one-day Virtual Conference on Climate Change and CO2 Storage will take place on 3 December 2008 from 4-7pm GMT (11am-2pm Eastern, 8-11am Pacific). Martin Blunt, Head of the Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering at Imperial College, and Sir Brian Hoskins, Director of the Grantham Institute, will speak live from Imperial College London, UK. Lynn Orr, Director of the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford, will give his talk live from Stanford University in California. The talks will be live-streamed into Second Life. The conference will be ‘attended’ by researchers and students from universities including Imperial College London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University and the University of Wyoming.

November 26, 2008. Evanston, IL. AVATRAIT Gallery, the leading advocate of the emerging genre of “Digital Impressionist” art from the virtual world of Second Life, after a series of sold-out art showings at its old home on parent company Simuality’s island, is excited to announce the grand opening event at their new dedicated sim, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Evoluon/86/114/140 (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Evoluon/86/114/140).This is a special showing, reflecting the full range of the Avatrait Gallery artists, something of a live staging of the recent full-color hardcover book release, “AVATRAIT: From Second Life To Florence”, which was produced to commemorate Avatrait’s participation in this fall’s Festival della Creatività event in Florence, Italy, as well as the on-going Rinascimento Virtuale exhibit focusing on the art of virtual worlds.

November 22, 2008. Second Life. Real Life Meets Second Life; A Weekend for Lucas Benefit for The Smiling Dog Farms November 29th and 30th. With the innovation of the Internet comes the virtual world, Second Life. Second Life is a 3d virtual world environment that allows people from all over the world to meet and chat and interact. It is becoming very popular and well known throughout the country and the world. Corporations like Intel, Cisco, CNN, IBM, and many others have placed in world locations in the virtual world. The live music scene in Second Life has become something of it’s own innovation. Music companies are looking and listening. Several musicians have actually signed contracts and the talent is incredible. It is amazing to have musicians from all over the world be heard by others in a unique forum such as Second Life. There are 3d venues and people come as if they were attending a real world concert.

November 21, 2008. Second Life. Long time resident of Second Life, Cathereine Night, releases Your Virtual World Business Guide . A Full day of events at dAlliez Winter Wonderland Sim will kick off the book launch. All Second Life residents are invited to join in and celebrate the official launch of the book. The launch party area is a holiday paradise, with snow covered mountains and frozen ponds, a ski lift takes you up the mountain where you can either ski or snow board down. In addition there is a holiday train ride that takes you past small cheerful buildings heavy with snow and decorated with twinkling lights. It is a place where it alone is well worth the trip to see.The following is the event schedule for the day Sunday November 23rd;10:00 AM PST:Book Launch: Winter Wonderland

November 22, 2008. Sconfinate, Second Life. The Grand Re-Opening of The Shops At Sconfinate with the addition of the Main Store for Studio F designer furnishings. Burattino String would like to invite everyone to the Grand Re-Opening of Sconfinate Island recently upgraded to enhance the guests experience while they visit the premiere shopping area: The Shops At Sconfinate, Located on Sconfinate and featuring over 40 different shops and vendors. Already the home of Mythology’s Main store, The Shops at Sconfinate are proudly adding the Main Store for Studio F designer furnishings.In true Sconfinate style, Burattino has pulled some strings to get the popular DJ Laine to inaugurate the amazing new club area with her hot mixes. The Grand Re-Opening event will also include karaoke and an open-mic for all of you comedians out there and feature contests and games with prizes to be won by all who attend.

November 18, 2008. Playboy Sim, Second Life. Jax Streeter will be taking the stage at The Official Playboy SIM from 8:00pm SLT until 9:00pm SLT on November 20, 2008 - Jax Streeter takes the stage to rock out the grid. Playboy 143,94,76 (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Playboy/143/94/76)

November 15, 2008. Fire Island, Second Life. Jax Streeter will be taking the stage at the Grand Re-Opening Celebration of Fire Island from 8:00pm SLT until 9:00pm SLT. Jax Streeter will rock the grid ending a day full of events celebrating the Grand Re-Opening of Fire Island (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fire%20Island%20Pines/145/171/23).Further information or to schedule an interview with Jax Streeter contact:Gianna Borgnine, Chief Executive Officer, Sand Castle Studiosgianna@chaningworldsbuildingdreams.com (mailto:gianna@chaningworldsbuildingdreams.com)Sadie Pippita, Lead Brand Strategist, Sand Castle Studiossadie@changingworldsbuildingdreams.com (mailto:sadie@changingworldsbuildingdreams.com)Jax Streeter is the World's First Virtual Recording Artist and his stage is the World Wide Web. In fact the only way to catch Jax is in Second Life, a 3D online world of social and business networking, or on his audio stream.Visit http://www.jaxstreeter.com/ (http://www.jaxstreeter.com/)

November 10, 2008. Shakespeare, Second Life: The SL Shakespeare Company (SLSC) will perform a full ensemble performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Act 1 in a special short-run advance mini season as part of their Fall Season 2008 repertoire. Opening on SLSC Thursday, November 13th (following a sneak peek on November 12th), the full-length Act 1 is the first part of the culmination of a summer's worth of rehearsal-performances in SLSC's tag-team staged reading series of Twelfth Night. Maintaining their tradition of visual and theatrical extravagance, the mini production also introduces the usage of multiple rotating sets, incognito animation preloading, global lighting and weather control to SLSC stagecraft technologies. Live dynamic camera control by a director fine tunes the performance with a cinematic appeal, while international subtitles, the SLSC's Pay as you Will philosophy, and the play's location in the confluence of four island simulators of the SL Globe Theatre make the performance accessible to as many as possible.

November 10, 2008. Second Life. The Ewing Fashion Agency (EFA) and our official partner, the Artist Advice (a real-world artist management company based in Amsterdam) are pleased to announce our joint participation in Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2009 (AIFW 2009) - next January. The AIFW show is an exciting follow-up to EFA's successful collaboration with the Artist Advice last February to create the first show of its kind in Second Life - EFA's First Fusion (http://ewingfashionagency.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/press-release-simultaneous-second-life-real-life-show/), which attracted wide coverage in by the dutch print, television and Internet press and again featured SL household names, such as Nicky Ree and Sysy Chapman. The AIFW show is set to place on Monday the 26th of January at 11.00 AM SLT.

November 1, 2008. Second Life. sl-newspaper.com will be 2 years old in November and we have huge plans for a celebration, it will be a week of events with contests and parties all week.Over 75,000 in prizes to be given away.The week of events will be held on a sim donated by BNT holdings and the fashion show organised by Best of SL's Frolic MillsWHEN: November 16th to 22ndWHERE: to be announcedWHO: Everyone!

October 30, 2008. Second Life. Join us November 27, Thursday, for the third recruiting job fair event for GAX Technologies. This time Working Worlds will have some of the biggest employers in Europe present and they will be interviewing candidates in their virtual offices. GAX Technologies has made its mark in Second Life with their hugely successful in-world Career Fairs. Every six months the Working Worlds/ GAX Technologies Career Fair is held and each fair has been larger than it's predecessor, thus making the sky the limit for the Working Worlds Career Fairs. To help job hunters learn more about the fair and how it will benefit them there will be conferences and e-learning sessions at the Working Worlds location in-world. Working Worlds offers everything possible to help ensure the success of the job seekers.

October 30, 2008. Chicago, Ill. AVATRAIT DIGITAL GALLERIES, the Second Life gallery dedicated to bringing the art of some of the world’s leading artistic visionaries to a real world audience, has teamed up with the we-R-you Corporation to use the we-R-you coRe software platform to build and create a more complete and social experience for the buying and selling of digital art. The we-R-you coRe software is designed to allow any website to easily and quickly provide secure and private social networking and the ability to quickly, easily and effectively monetize an existing website such as Avatrait.

October 29, 2008. Evanston, IL – AVATRAIT, the leading advocate of the emerging genre of “Digital Impressionist” art from the virtual world of Second Life, is very pleased to announce the release of the first title from their publishing division, AVATRAIT: From Second Life To Florence. Produced to commemorate Avatrait’s participation in the recent Festival della Creatività event in Florence, Italy, as well as the on-going Rinascimento Virtuale exhibit focusing on the art of virtual worlds, this book serves as an introduction to this new form of art.The Avatrait Gallery is one of the leading art attractions (and a permanent Arts Culture “hot spot” venue listing) in Second Life, and features some of the most talented visionary artists working in the digital formats of that virtual world. The book presents art from 47 of the Avatrait Gallery artists, along with personal statements of each about their art. In addition there are three essays, Second Life founder Philip Rosedale discussing creativity and identity in the metaverse, Avatrait founder Greg Houston addressing art in the context of the virtual environment, and art professor Mario Gerosa detailing the emergence of “Digital Impressionism” as a new genre in the world of art.

October 27, 2008. Second Life – The American Cancer Society announces the grand re-opening of the newly re-designed island in the virtual world on Sunday November 2, 2008. For several years, the American Cancer Society has existed in Second Life through its volunteers, Relay For Life event, and an island that served as a central meeting place for volunteers and avatars, of those who are affected by cancer. Over the last several months, the island has been completely redesigned to meet the growing needs of cancer patients and American Cancer Society volunteers in Second Life. In 2008, the Relay For Life of Second Life volunteers raised over $200,000 USD which cumulated with an event that was attended by more than 2,000 avatars on 35 sims.

October 24, 2008. Second Life. You are invited, October 25th at 2 p.m. slt, to join us for the first televised presidential debate in Second Life. Representing Democrats will be Cubsfan Pugilist of Obama for President he will take on Wyatt Forster of Mccain for America. The debate will be moderated by UK resident and MBC news anchor, Dousa Dragonash who will be sure that the debate runs smoothly and is fairly regulated.

October 22, 2008. Second Life. Come join us for the highly anticipated Grand ReOpening of Cienega Soon's Castle Valeriya Artist Gallery. The gallery will officially reopen October 24th and will be a sight to behold. Cienega is well known for her vivid and lively art which brings fourth various emotions while being viewed. Cienega's art captures the attention of the viewer and draws them in making them want to know or learn more about each piece of art they are viewing. Her art has an edge and an appeal which reaches out to both the art connoisseur and to those that simply enjoy visually appealing art. This will also be the opening for Fog Terrace which will feature guest DJ's that will play Dark Psy Trance Music. The Fog Terrace is sure to quickly become a hit to those who love Dark Psy Trance and are looking for an awesome atmosphere to enjoy that in. A 24 hr Masquerade Party will begin at 6pm SLT, this will feature 12 Dj's who will fill the Fog Terrace with Psy, Goa, and Trance mixes for a solid 24 hours.

October 22, 2008. Second Life. You are invited to join Koinup and place your favorite locations from SL in their Places Directory. The newest feature allows members to upload a photo of a location and its slurl in order to share with fellow members some of your favorite sims inside of SL. You can visit the site http://www.koinup.com/places (http://www.koinup.com/places) in order to see what locations are already listed. The Places Directory is one of the fastest growing features of Koinup. Koinup members are quickly realizing the importance of such a directory and using it to discover new sim openings. Photographers are using it to find lovely photographic landscapes and event planners are using it to help spread the word about upcoming events.

Oct 21, 2008. Cousins Pau, Second Life – Sand Castle Studios will commemorate its one year anniversary with a high-powered celebration on Saturday, October 25, 2008, beginning at 4 pm PST with a jam-packed fashion show featuring nine of Second Life’s most treasured designers. The fashion show will be followed with a performance by virtual recording artist Jax Streeter that will surely rock the grid. There will be multiple giveaways by SCS and the celebrations other participants as the evening unfoldsGianna Borgnine, CEO of Sand Castle Studios said that, “It was a breakthrough year for Sand Castle Studios, thanks to the dedicated work of our talented and experienced team. I am so honored to be able to give back to those who have supported us this first year. We look forward to another great year of continued expansion and opportunities to raise the bar for development in Second Life.