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Happy Birthday, Second Life

20 SL9B Exhibits You Don’t Want To Miss!

Community, content creation, events, Second Life, Virtual Worlds on June 27th, 2012 5 Comments

This year’s Second Life 9th Birthday (SL9B) celebration is coming to a close, but before the SIMs shut down forever here are some of my favorite SL9B exhibits that you won’t want to miss!

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The Virtual False Dilemma

Community, Second Life, Virtual Worlds on March 7th, 2012 18 Comments

Debunking the rumors…

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How the Updated Policy on Third Party Viewers Will Effect Second Life

Community, News Announcements, Policy, Second Life, TPV, Virtual Worlds on February 26th, 2012 30 Comments

Linden Lab has officially updated their Policy on Third Party Viewers. Here’s how the controversial new clauses will effect your Second Life experience.

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Linden Lab Must Stop Underselling Second Life

Branding, Business, Community, Marketing, Second Life on December 22nd, 2011 25 Comments

Linden Lab has an extensive history of launching their marketing and advertising campaigns for Second Life to mixed reviews, and their most recent attempts have been no different.

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SLCC 2011

SLCC 2011 Wrap-Up

Business, Community, content creation, Education, events, Intellectual Property and Copyright, News Announcements, Second Life, SLCC, social media, Virtual Goods, Virtual Worlds on August 17th, 2011 3 Comments

A recap of the major news, improvements, and announcements coming out of the Second Life Community Convention 2011.

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SLCC 2011

The Future of Second Life: Key Points from the Product Team at SLCC

Community, content creation, News Announcements, Second Life, SLCC, Virtual Worlds on August 17th, 2011 5 Comments

The Second Life Product Team presented what they have been working on in order to better address the communities needs including a prototype game.

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Why Virtual Worlds (like Second Life) Have More Value Than Twitter & Facebook

Branding, Business, Community, content creation, Education, events, Marketing, Second Life, social media, Virtual Worlds on February 14th, 2011 30 Comments

Today Mitch Wagner said he thought that Second Life was inconvenient, has gone as far as it can go, and is the wrong platform. He prefers Facebook and Twitter. As much as I respect Mitch’s opinion, I disagree.

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European Parliament Launches (Controversial) Virtual World Citzalia

Community, Government, Second Life, Virtual Worlds on August 27th, 2010 3 Comments

There has been quite some noise in the Euro blogosphere about a new EU Parliament project, Citzalia. Citzalia is a new virtual world and social networking forum.

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Winning Back the Lead: The Battle of (Viewer) Developers to Rebuild Trust

Branding, Community, Second Life, SLCC, social media, Virtual Worlds on August 24th, 2010 10 Comments

In addition to Linden Lab’s official viewer, users can access the virtual world of Second Life through a number of customized third party viewers. This has created much debate as to whether these third party viewers are safe.

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Second Life Community Convention 2010

Significant Changes Announced at SLCC

Business, Community, Education, News Announcements, Second Life, SLCC, Virtual Goods, Virtual Worlds on August 17th, 2010 8 Comments

The 6th annual Second Life Community Convention (SLCC) took place in Boston this past weekend. It was an exciting weekend packed full of Linden Lab announcements as well as a plethora of resident-led discussions and presentations.

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Second Life 7th Birthday

The SL7B Exhibits You Don’t Want to Miss

art, Community, events, SL7B, Virtual Worlds on June 27th, 2010 4 Comments

As the Second Life 7th Birthday is winding down, I wanted to share with you a few of my favorite exhibits from the week. While all the exhibits were special, here are some of the ones I most enjoyed.

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SL7B Opening Speech

The Top Five Points to Take Away from Philip Rosedale’s SL7B Address

Business, Community, content creation, events, SL7B, Virtual Worlds on June 21st, 2010 4 Comments

The Second Life 7th Birthday celebration kicked off this morning with an address from Linden Lab founder, SL creator, and current Chairman of the Board – Philip Rosedale (aka Philip Linden).

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Big Bad Blogger Challenge 2010 - Day 4

Are You Creating Change?

Community, Open Forum, Second Life, Virtual Goods on June 17th, 2010 1 Comment

OPEN FORUM:

What changes specifically do you think Linden Lab needs to make? What specifically do you want to see in Second Life? What areas do you think the Lab should be focusing their time on?

How are you creating the change you want to see?

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Big Bad Blogger Challenge 2010 - Day 4

Measuring Virtual Age

Community, Second Life, Virtual Worlds on June 16th, 2010 No Comments

Today is Day 4 of the Big Bad Blogger Challenge 2010.

Today’s Topic: Age

Age (along with many of the other confines of the physical world such as race, religion, sex, etc.) becomes a very interesting topic when examined in virtual space.

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Big Bad Blogger Challenge 2010 - Day 3

The Reality of Virtual Relationships

Community, Second Life, Virtual Worlds on June 15th, 2010 4 Comments

Today is Day 3 of the Big Bad Blogger Challenge 2010.
Today’s Topic: Relationships

The desire to feel connected is a basic human instinct. This doesn’t change when we log into a virtual world.

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