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 […]
Jessica Holyoke on Second Life Herald shouts that Second Life can be seriously threatened by law regulations, in particular those regarding jobs, and media copyright.
Briefly, it’s not clear which law and regulation you must apply to Second Life workers, and this problem will become more and more serious in the years to come; and when […]
BreakAway Ltd. bought the license for a project, funded by Federal government in Texas and developed by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, regarding a virtual learning platform for medical training: Pulse!!
This is what Dr. Claudia L. McDonald has to say:
“Through our collaboration with TAMU-CC to develop a platform solution for teaching and training medical professionals, we […]
Great news from the official Linden Lab blog: the new virtual land store is open (in beta).
You can find all the informations to register and use the beta version on the blog post.
I think that the land store needed a refresh, and a better usability; I played around a little bit with this new one, […]
What Second Life is missing is a real “virtual” democracy, in which residents can vote and be elected. It’s something that you can see on Erepublik.com, a quite new web-based game in which you, as a virtual citizen, engage in economy, politics and war.
Now EVE Online, another huge virtual world, is opening up for democracy: […]
Torley Linden did what I’ve been waiting for: he better organized the video tutorials wiki page, making easier to find the video you need.
“One of the new features is that when you view the lists for “Tip of the Week” (30+ of ‘em) and “Quicktips” (75+!), columns can be sorted by category! Also, I’ll be […]
UgoTrade has a new great interview with Mitch Kapor (yes, THAT Mitch Kapor) about 3D interfaces for Second Life!
This is exciting, and Mitch says we’re gonna have them by Christmas 2009! Great!
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Wagner James Au writes on Business Week about Marketing in Second Life; in his opinion, marketing is far from dead. Companies need to understand Second Life, in order to be successful.
I agree with him: Second Life has lots of potential, but suffered from a huge hype, like the Internet just before the bubble exploded.
At the […]
Wagner thinks that, given some approximation, Linden Lab is earning a gross of about a hundred millions a year, and pays about half of it in expenses.
Let’s take his calculations (he honestly says that he’s not an expert of the matter), and modify them according to my little and humble IT experience:
Linden Income
a) There are […]
In an interview available on the Guardian website, Philip Rosedale explains what he thinks about the future of Second Life:
“… I think that it’ll become more pervasive, especially if we open it up and standardize it. I’m not necessarily saying that this one company will control all those servers. No. We’re working on systems where […]
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