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May 15th, 2008

Why Second Life?

“Does a Second Life avatar need a kitchen if it never eats, or a roof over its head if it never rains? If you can be anything and build anything, how does an avatar find happiness?”
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As good as usual, the Second Life section of Reuters talks about the new “Molotov Alva and His Search for […]

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May 13th, 2008

Legal threats for Second Life?

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 […]

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May 9th, 2008

A virtual learning platform for medical training

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 […]

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May 9th, 2008

The new virtual land store is open!

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, […]

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May 8th, 2008

A better organized video tutorials wiki page

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 […]

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May 6th, 2008

A new interview with Mitch Kapor about 3D interfaces for Second Life!

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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May 6th, 2008

SL Marketing? Still strong!

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 […]

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May 5th, 2008

Linden Lab earns about 50 millions USD per year… or 40?

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 […]

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May 5th, 2008

Philip Rosedale: Second Life will become the web

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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May 5th, 2008

Lego goes virtual

According to Reuters, Lego is preparing a great move into the Virtual Worlds, launching a “Lego Universe”, with a pay subscription service.

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Lego Universe is designed by NetDevil (Colorado, USA), and will give users the ability to interact with classic Lego bricks, and probably with Mindstorms too.
Lego Universe will allow people to order physical versions […]

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