Second Life Pros

James Wagner Au shows a list of more than 250 Second Life Blogs, submitted by his readers.
Thankfully, Second Life Pros is among those!
Great!

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You can watch this 8-minutes video of A virtual study of Macbeth, an interesting project that brought a great piece of literature into Second Life.

I’m particularly proud to say that some of the scenes were recorded in the Assisi location, where we built the Basilica of Saint Francis.

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Both of them.
Let me explain.
Second Life is good when you use it for some purposes (of course, which purposes depends on your interests and skills).
I, for example, find Second Life useful to visit reproductions of real places, to meet with people without being physically close to each other, and occasionally to see new form of arts and entertainment.
I’m sure, nonetheless, that most users find Second Life unattractive, because they have such high expectations on its potentials; people sign in because they think Second life is an incredible virtual world, and after an hour they’re still stuck in Orientation Island.
This attitude …read more

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[hat tip to Frank ]
Today Vollee’s highly anticipated streaming games service debuted with the launch of Second Life for mobile phones!
The new, free application allows anyone with a 3G or Wi-Fi enabled handset to explore, interact and communicate across the entire 3D virtual world right from their handset.
Vollee’s proprietary solution is the only one on the market that can stream any high-end PC title to mobile, including popular massively multiplayer online role playing games.
Hope it will soon go out of the beta!

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Tyler Cowen (author of “Discover your inner economist“, which I loved) writes a blog post on Second Life’s currency, the Linden Dollar.
I quote:
“Who would have foreseen that maximizing income from “land” sales might check this outcome?  I think of Linden Dollars as akin to legal tender currencies: you can’t buy anything in Second Life without them.  Since the goods and services in Second Life have value the currency does too.”
And, of course, I agree, too.

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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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