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Saturday, Aug 29
Coca-Cola Re-Ups In Second Life With Nestea Marketing Deal
Will the marketing of real world brands in Second Life find a second life? Maybe. Nestea, a Coca-Cola brand, announced today it's sponsoring Second Life's "Junkyard Blues" venue. SECOND LIFE, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Will the marketing of real world brands in Second Life find a second life?
Monday, Aug 17
Blog: Registered for Facebook under your avatar name? That’s a ban.
Second Life enthusiasts who register for Facebook under their avatar names should watch out: the Syndey Morning Herald is reporting Facebook is terminating accounts it suspects don't represent real-life names. Many Second Life users cherish their avatar identity so highly they sign...
Thursday, Jul 23
Beating Linden to the punch on multi-grid search
Enter Metaverse Ink, which its creators say is the first search engine to find objects on both the Second Life Grid and in OpenSim worlds. “Linden Lab’s search is bad, it’s like AltaVista in the old days,” said Metaverse Ink co-founder William Cook (Second Life: Felix Wakmann), a computer...
Wednesday, Jun 17
Blog: Rosedale: Blame it on the Mac
Linden employee “Phoenix Linden” joined in, saying Apple doesn’t release information about their proprietary video card drivers in a timely fashion, making it hard for Linden to keep the Mac version of the viewer running smoothly.
Thursday, Nov 13
Vivaty To Expand Beyond Facebook and AIM
While every virtual world is scrambling for users and attention, the competition closest to Vivaty may be Lively by Google. Like Vivaty, Lively is a browser-based virtual world embedded in IE. Vivaty and Lively launched on the same day.
Saturday, Oct 18
Beating Linden to the punch on multi-grid search
SECOND LIFE, Sept 11 (Reuters) - OpenSim [1] remains in pre-release and the interoperability standards [2] to allow avatars to travel between virtual worlds are still being drafted. But that's not stopping entrepreneurs from creating a fledgling industry around what's to come. Enter M...
Saturday, Sep 6
Linden launches instant messaging client
SECOND LIFE, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Second Life users who frequently access the Internet from consumer-grade computers and laptops are about to find keeping touch with other avatars a lot easier. Yesterday Linden Lab announced the launch of “SLim,” pronounced “slim,” an instant-messagin...
Wednesday, Aug 27
Second Life residents propose their own solutions to a troubled UI
SECOND LIFE, August 12 (Reuters) - Doug Thompson loved Second Life from the start, but there was one aspect he hated — its notoriously clunky user interface. With three vetted ideas for improving Second Life’s interface, it may be hard to extract the best ideas out of them.
Second Life’s user economy shows strong growth
SECOND LIFE, August 26 (Reuters) - The real-world economy may be slipping into recession, but the global slowdown isn’t impacting Second Life. According to recently released company statistics, Linden Lab’s in-world economy is larger than ever.
Tuesday, Jul 22
Blog: Avatars beware: Private investigators scouring Second Life
Be careful, that avatar on your sim could be a real-life private investigator, sent in to report on what you’re up to in your Second Life. But Second Life users should be aware, Rambam noted, that investigators are increasingly well-versed at using the virtual world.
Friday, Jul 11
Interview: Linden prepares for an OpenSim future
In the wake of the recent first avatar teleport between Second Life and an OpenSim region, Linden VP Joe Miller, better known to Second Life residents as “Zero Linden,” spoke to Reuters about Linden Lab’s long-term strategy. LINDEN LAB’S NEW REVENUE MODEL
Tuesday, Jun 17
For substance abusers, help in a virtual world
SECOND LIFE, June 5 (Reuters) - “Hi, my name is Gracie, and I’m an alcoholic.” “I suggest, particularly to the newcomer, to get to RL AA,” Crighton J. said. But as a veteran of real world Alcoholics Anonymous, he’s found a community, friends, and support inside the virtual world.
