Second Life Pros

I think that Torley is doing something INCREDIBLE for Second Life: providing those totally clear, short, simple tutorials is the best way to attract new users, and keep most of them using Second Life.
I really hope that Linden Lab will acknowledge his merits.
Anyway, here we have sixteen new great tips from our dear Torley! Enjoy folks
And, of course, you could also download the high-quality versions.

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I’m at the job fair NOW, Working Worlds!
Here more info. My avatar name is Simone Brunozzi.
Please come!

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According to the new Linden Lab’s CEO Mark Kingdon (his first week’s blog post is here), Inworld collaboration is going to be the killer application for Second Life.
Hmm… I can agree, of course, but it seems to me that Second Life has a lot left to do, to provide a GOOD interface and environment suitable for business purposes.
And, by the way… What about their data center? Are you still going to turn down the Grid almost once a week? Please, man.

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Entropia Universe, a virtual world created by Mindark, the fist virtual world to contribute to the Emmy Award, currently in english only, will soon be available in German, Spanish and French, to increase the penetration of this virtual world expecially among European users.

Entropia is a very interesting virtual world, and this move can surely bring lots of new users, an interesting contributions as well.

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Thank to Fiona, I discovered this interesting post about 50 tips and tips to create a learning space in Second Life. Worth reading.
I strongly believe that Second Life, and Virtual Worlds, have a great potential in the learning sphere; a three-dimensional space is (potentially) much better than ANY web-based learning tool, provided it’s designed with students in mind.
Currently, Second Life is a little bit too complicated to CREATE, and RECEIVE learning contents. As soon as the interface and the creation tools improve, learning will definitively get off the ground.

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Working Worlds will open again on May 29th, 2008, to open the BeNeLux (Belgium, Netherland, Luxembourg) job market to potential candidates.
Amazon.com will be there, too, and of course I’ll attend (my avatar name is Simone Brunozzi).

My suggestion? Register on the website, or follow the step-by-step guide, and attend the fair on may 29th… I’m sure there will be very interesting opportunities out there!

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This is the story of how I got hired by Amazon.com, starting from the Second Life’s Virtual Job Fair in Luxembourg.
It’s a long one, but worth reading!

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This is my final conclusion, about Second Life:
Second Life had an interesting role on all this: being updated and experienced with the latest technologies brings a competitive advantage in some way or another. In my case, Second Life helped me in being the coolest candidate, among the few being able to use Second Life and not scared of a virtual job fair.
Such a good start gave me the energy to focus on unexpected …read more

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Marostica is a small village in Veneto, the region leaded by Venezia, in which, since year 1454, the main square hosts a wonderful chess game, with real human figures, every even year.
What about the origin of this chess game? Two knights, Rinaldo d’Angarano and Vieri da Vallonara, both in love with Lionora, challenge each other in duel to decide which one can win her love.
The prince, father of Lionora, denied the match, and offered instead a chess game as a mean to clear the challenge. To make it better and nicer, the prince decided to invite the people, warriors and …read more

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A little off-topic here, but tomorrow I’m flying to Seattle to start my new job at Amazon.com : I’ll be their Amazon Web Services (AWS) Evangelist for Europe!
Do I need to recall that everything started in Second Life?
Wish me good luck! Be back to you in a couple of days

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Breaking news: Playboy is coming to Second Life!
Christie Hefner is saying:
“We believe that the potential of online is much greater than the performance we’ve seen in the last several years”

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I agree, Christie: the potential revenue from virtual worlds is much bigger than what you ever saw in the past.
See Love + Sex with Robots for further details about what sex, virtual worlds and robots will become in the near future.
However, let me add that Playboy quite always worked in this “dangerous” business (the erotic business) with taste and caution.
Keep doing this. Virtual worlds are far more dangerous, for people, …read more

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