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Second Life
Downloads Second Life is a virtual world - a 3D online persistent space totally created and evolved by its users. The ability to design and resell 3D content, combined with the ability to own and develop land and a microcurrency, which can be exchanged to...
[October 15, 2009, 20:09]
Second Life Notifier
Downloads Playing Second Life and you would like to know which of your friends are online before you launch the application? With Second Life Notifier, you can track who's getting online and offline without having to login Second Life.
[September 8, 2009, 8:39]
Second Life millionaire retracts DMCA claim
News The husband of Second Life land baroness Anshe Chung said filing a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaint with YouTube to delete a video of her avatar being attacked by a barrage of digital flying penises was a mistake.
[January 16, 2007, 8:30]
Second Life goes open source
News Linden Lab has continued its push to dominate the rapidly growing area of virtual reality, by releasing some of the source code for Second Life under the General Public Licence. This will allow Second Life users to design new features and improve...
[January 8, 2007, 15:57]
Second Life
Downloads Second Life is a 3D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. From the moment you enter the World you'll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity.
[November 5, 2008, 4:10]
Second Life aims collaboration tools at enterprise
News Joe Miller, vice president of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab, talks to CNET News.com's Dan Farber about the challenges in developing dynamic and reliable back-end operations for the 3D virtual world of Second Life.
[September 3, 2008, 15:02]
BT invites Second Life users to AvaTalk
News BT is upping its presence in Second Life with a trial of its free AvaTalk phone and texting service. BT built a private island in Second Life called "Area 21" last September where it showed off demos of its virtual-world technology, including AvaTalk.
[March 25, 2008, 14:15]
Businesses probe benefits of Second Life
News Businesses are unsure about the benefits of using Second Life, with many still just experimenting with the virtual world to discover its true value. When asked how the success of Second Life projects could be measured, Croxford said: "Something we...
[April 28, 2008, 9:38]
Photos: IBM serves up Wimbledon in Second Life
News IBM is recreating the action of the Wimbledon tennis championships in Second Life. Ian Hughes, IBM metaverse evangelist, explained the data it gathers at the championships is used to power the website which keeps tennis fans up to date about the...
[June 19, 2007, 14:06]
Writing Commerce Scripts in Second Life
White Papers Commerce occurs in Second Life whenever money changes hands. Money, in Second Life, is the Linden Dollar. Although the Linden Dollar is not an actual currency, it can be freely exchanged for real-world currencies.
[December 22, 2008, 0:00]
CRT monitors given a second life in Africa
News Edwin Martins from Computers for Schools Kenya explains how the IT charity is turning donated CRT monitors from UK organisations into televisions.
[October 15, 2007, 16:07]
Core Duo gets a second lease on life
News Coming soon to a PC store near you: Core Duo, the sequel. Intel has decided to borrow the sequential naming scheme it used for its famous Pentium brand and apply it to the new Core line of chips, the company announced on Sunday.
[May 8, 2006, 8:50]
Virtual worlds, real problems
Leader The media loves its darlings, and Second Life is very darling indeed. In fact, based on the latest figures Second Life has released, the amount of in-game commerce comes a poor second to the turnover of a single department store.
[June 11, 2007, 17:40]
Enhancing Software Engineering Education Using Teaching Aids in 3-D Online Virtual Worlds
White Papers Three-dimensional Online Virtual Worlds such as Second Life support avatar-based communications, a wide spectrum of online activities, and development of various in-world teaching and learning tools. The authors have experimented with Second Life...
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
Nortel: Virtual worlds may replace the office
News Nortel Networks is looking to the next generation of employees to shape the workplace of tomorrow, and high on its agenda is exploring the role of Web 2.0 technologies and virtual worlds such as Linden Lab's Second Life.
[February 1, 2008, 8:17]
VNUNet - Virtual Answers to Real-Life Ills
White Papers Probably the best known virtual world is Second Life, a site in which there were 12.6 million 'Residents' as of July 2008, a growth of 900 per cent over the previous year. Large corporations that have already set up a presence in Second Life...
[March 1, 2009, 0:24]
Vista puts the brakes on XP SP3
News In a posting to its life cycle Web site, Microsoft set a preliminary date of the second half of next year for the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 for both home and professional editions. We will be releasing another service pack for XP over...
[January 19, 2006, 15:45]
Google's Lively, but not adding much for the business community
Blog Think Second Life meets IMVU, the avatar based 3D social network popular with teens, and you're there. Unless, of course, your company made so much money from its store on Second Life that you want to open a second branch.
[July 9, 2008, 10:03]
Extreme Blue: IBM's student demo review
Reviews IBM was at pains to point out that Second Life is merely a current example of a virtual world, and that many of the technologies being developed will be portable to future 3D internet platforms. Virtual shop-fronts are generated from existing...
[September 13, 2007, 14:18]
Grady Booch: The developer's developer
News You are championing virtual programming environments with IBM's Codestation in Second Life. Spending an increasing amount of time on research, he remains an active participant in IBM's vision for next-generation software engineering, which includes...
[September 26, 2007, 17:34]
