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Written by AC
Making money by starting a business in the virtual world known as "Second Life" has been touted as an economic wave of the future. But for the moment at least, pulling it off isn't exactly a reality. Related Stories "Second Life" ...

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Serious Games
.

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My ?Second Life? is harder than my first one. - Evansville Courier & Press ,
NEWS: Avatar vs. Avatar - the first Second Life lawsuit - Pocket-lint.co.uk

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Written by Adam Mutum
The environmental conservation group WWF now has a new home at Conservation Island. However, don't start searching for it on your atlas or even on Google maps. This Island only exists in the virtual World of Second Life. ...

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Agoravox
.

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WWF sets up 'conservation Island' on Second Life - Hippyshopper ,
World Wildlife Fund sets up Conservation Island on Second Life - Mobile Digest and ...
CNNMoney.com
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MMORPG blog
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ah ok lah

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South Africa - He's never met the woman outside of the computer world of Second Life, a well-chronicled digital fantasyland with more than eight million registered ...
Does Virtual Cheating Still Count? ABC Newsall 26 news articles

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Moneyweb
.

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Shopping in Second Life - FashionUnited ,
Virtual Adultery? - confessions of a recovering pharisee and ...
DollyMix
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Written by Chino
?about me/us? page on their website, Second Life Camping is a huge list of all the camping spots out there and is updated frequently to give you all the information you need and the spots where to find the best camping sites in SL. ...

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Earn Free Lindens
.

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- The pearl of the city's museum collection, the Old Masters Picture Gallery, recently opened a virtual version of itself in Second Life . ...

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Wired News
.

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The Insider: Corbis builds a virtual art gallery in Second Life - Seattle Post Intelligencer ,
Museum Clones Itself In Virtual World - The Future of Classical Music? and ...
Technology in the Arts
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artsWOM
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The Cranky Professor

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Written by Chino Yray
Free Linden Dollars: New to Second Life? Looking for hassle-free Linden Dollars? I?ve listed a summary of where you can get free lindens in Second Life without camping for long hours, no escort service needed and most of all, no need to get a boring job. (I don?t like women or even guys pretending women, be so desperate on earning lindens and end up doing escort service because they have no cho...

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Earn Free Lindens
.

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How to earn linden dollars in Second Life - digg ,
There is no secret in Earning Linden Dollars - Earn Free Lindens ,
Running Out Of Women: Virtual Girl Makes Maxim's Hot 100 - Kotaku

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subscription) - This article uses Second Life and World of Warcraft as two very different examples of current virtual worlds that foreshadow future developments, ...

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Science Magazine
.

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Written by Cory Doctorow
Katharine Berry, a student in the UK, has created an in-browser AJAX application that allows you to log into the virtual world of Second Life, but without all of the laggy graphics. This is a great way to pop in-world for a moment if ...

Original story at

Boing Boing
.

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Web Client for Second Life - KJ Blog ,
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Boing Boing
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Second Life Insider
,
VNUNet.com
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The Metaverse

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A copyright infringement claim in Second Life is heading to a court in the real world, reports Reuters. In "Eros LLC vs John Doe," Second Life entrepreneur Kevin Alderman is suing user Volkov Catteneo for allegedly copying a virtual sex bed that sells for $12,000 Linden, or $45.11. The lawsuit seeks to force Linden Lab to [...]

Original story at

Marketing Vox News
.

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Second Life sex bed spawns virtual copyright action - Times Online ,
Second Life Avatar Sued for Copyright Infringement - GigaOM and ...
MMORPG blog
,
Download Squad
,
ZDNet
,
Wired News
,
The Trademark Blog
,
Tama Leaver dot Net
,
ZDNet

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Written by Glen D.
The Vancouver Police Department is gearing up to get new recruits. However, they're not doing it in the usual places or methods that you'd expect them to. Right now, they're undergoing Second Life training to try and wrangle in new cops from there.
The police force is looking for internet-savvy people who can aid them in operations and investigations which involve cyber crimes, fraud and abuse...

Original story at

Qj.net
.

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Virtual Police Department - Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ OLDaily RSS 0.91 ,
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digg
,
Kotaku
,
MMORPG blog

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Stella McCartney will co-host a virtual anti-fur protest next month in the online fantasy world known as Second Life.

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San Diego Union Tribune
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Stella McCartney to do virtual anti-fur protest - CTV.ca ,
Stella McCartney To Hold Virtual Anti-Fur Protest - Huffington Post and ...
PR Inside (Pressemitteilung)
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Metro Cafe
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OCRegister
,
Sun-Sentinel.com

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NY - ... to an eye-popping Web site with virtual booths--detailed right down to the curtain designs and smiling cyber-greeters, a la the meta-world Second Life. ...

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Forbes
.

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Yesterday's Money: 13th September - Second Life Insider ,
More Singapore firms eye virtual world to sell real products - Asia Pacific Media Network and ...
Talk Second Life Forums - Second Life Business Forums
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Creating Blue Oceans
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Second Life Insider

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In what may be a sign of things to come, virtual world Second Life is unrolling a "voluntary" identity and age verification for its members.

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Digitaltrends.com
.

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Second Life introduces identity verification - SiliconValley.com ,
ID checks coming to Second Life - San Francisco Business Times and ...
Wired News
,
Bizjournals.com
,
Digitaltrends.com
,
Silicon.com
,
TMCnet
,
Second Life - Lawsuit. Bragg v. Linden, et al.
,
Virtually Blind - Virtual Law | Legal Issues That Impact Virtual Worlds

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Yahoo! AP - Just before US financial markets were roiled by a global credit squeeze this summer, an equally dramatic financial crisis threatened "Second Life," the much-hyped online world.

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iWEBTOOL Internet News
.

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Virtual Worlds: An Economist's Sandbox - TechNewsWorld ,
Virtual Bernanke guides 'Second Life' - ABCmoney.co.uk and ...
digg
,
Beet.TV
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WebMetricsGuru

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Canada - Sep 4, 2007 Directed by Douglas Gayeton, "Molotov's Dispatches in Search of the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey" chronicles an avatar, Molotov Alva, as he travels ...

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Reuters Canada
.

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HBO Acquires Short Film Shot Entirely in Second Life - Cinematical ,
Virtual gets real at HBO - C21Media and ...
Gaming Today
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TV Squad
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Washington Post
,
PR Web
,
Joystiq
,
Animation World Network
,
Vidfest 2007

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PA - By Adrian McCoy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A documentary shot entirely in the Second Life online virtual environment is slated for release sometime next year, ...

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Pittsburgh Post Gazette
.

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Cybertainment: Live and virtual, at the same time - Pittsburgh Post Gazette ,
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall in Second Life! - Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ OLDaily RSS 0.91 ,
First look at the virtual location for the Liverpool Philharmonic ... - Pixeltheatre

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Written by Cara
A US company called Novamente is using virtual worlds like Second Life to provide training for their AI. According to a BBC report the software learns by controlling avatars in this virtual environment. ...

Original story at

MyADSL
.

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Second Life hosts world's first virtual concert - Telegraph.co.uk ,
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Interesting report on banks and financial institutions in Second Life. "That?s right ? the game has a currency that is as valid and recognised by Second Life?s eight million residents as hard cash from a bank. ...

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digg
.

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Betting On Second Life Stock Exchanges - Techcrunch ,
Second Life Financial crisis gets worse when people panic. - Earn Free Lindens

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press release), CT - This home is in the popular online virtual world called Second Life. The home is Coldwell Banker?s three-dimensional reproduction of a real-life home on ...

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RisMedia.com
.

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Real Estate Goes Large In Second Life - Luxist ,
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Luxist

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This Boxxet RSS feed for Second Life highlights top news and blogs. Below is collection of other stories of interest that haven't yet hit top story status. You can go to the Boxxet for Second Life for complete news and blog coverage plus videos, photos, podcasts and more.

  •   Metaverse Brunch in Berlin --
by jeff from Jeff Barr's Blog
  •   Natalia Zelmanov - Post 6 Grrrrrl --
by SLHerald from Second Life Herald
  •   Second Life Market Recap 9/14 --
from Orient Lodge - A literary outpost on the internet
  •   Another alternate SL viewer - with ?object visibility muting? --
by Morris Vig from Second Arts
  •   Serious Virtual Worlds 2007, Coventry --
by Roo Reynolds from eightbar
  •   Order Real Life Flowers by Previewing them in Second Life? --
from Digg / upcoming
  •   Glowlab @ Gitana Rosa Gallery --
from Art Cal
  •   Trade Shows, Web 2.0 Style --
from Forbes
  •   Tracking avatars in rented space --
by Craig from Craig's Rantings...
  •   Join or Die --
by Lillie Yifu from 2nd Sex

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OR - By Christopher Nickson Second Life might be a world of avatars, but it?s also a place that seems more and more to be an analogue for the real world, ...

Original story at

Digitaltrends.com
.

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Virtual Job Fairs Offer Second Lifers Real World Jobs - Techgage News ,
The Looming IT Crunch: Is Second Life a Solution? - BNET Intercom ,
Second Life Job Fair - May 15-17 - ResumePower Blog

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subscription) - Cory Ondrejka, co-founder and chief technology officer of Linden Lab, the operator of Second Life, said in an interview Friday with National Public Radio?s ...

Original story at

Chronicle of Higher Education
.

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SecondLife As a Remote Control? - Your2ndPlace - ,
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Second Life Podcast
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Bootstrapper

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Written by Stephen Downes, stephen@downes.ca
Click here for the SLURL if you want to check out Hollywood, Second Life.(you need to have a Second Life avatar to visit.)However, what has happened is that HBO has acquired the rights to a short-form documentary shot entirely within ...

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Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ OLDaily RSS 0.91
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HBO Buys Rights to Movie Shot in 'Second Life' - FOX News ,
HBO Buys Machinima for 'Six-Figure Sum' - Marketing Vox News and ...
Wired News
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Reuters Canada
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Smart Mobs - Always-On Panopticon...or Cooperation Amplifier
,
Washington Post
,
Marketing Vox News
,
NetworkWorld.com
,
Cinematical

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CA - Sep 8, 2007 The user can choose the number of days that the auction will run, and set a minimum bid as well. Items offered can be both virtual items (Second Life goods) ...

Original story at

Techcrunch
.

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Virtual Auction House Opens Inside Second Life - Auctionbytes ,
First Auction House Opens in Second Life - Second Life Research and ...
Clickable Culture - Second Life
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Official Linden Blog
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KillerStartups.com - all
,
Second Life Insider
,
Franchise Business Opportunities

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Written by Stephen Downes, stephen@downes.ca
The New York Times has an article up today on life in Second Life: Even in a Virtual World, ?Stuff? Matters This article focuses on the stuff that people buy in Second Life, and how they go about earning and paying for the stuff that ...

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Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ OLDaily RSS 0.91
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so many blogs so little time - dbmt ,
Even in a Virtual World, ?Stuff? Matters - IndianPad - All Stories and ...
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Social Media
,
PacificRim Exchange
,
Social Days
,
second-life « WordPress.com Tag Feed
,
Consumer Lab

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CA - The MetaCard? from First Meta is a virtual credit card which also uses virtual money! There is no plastic card, its only used online in Second Life, ...

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American Chronicle
.

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HBO Purchases Virtual Second Life Documentary - Rotten Tomatoes ,
Virtual credit card launched in Second Life - Finextra ,
MetaCard: The World?s First Virtual World Credit Card - Techcrunch

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In what may be a sign of things to come, virtual world Second Life is unrolling a "voluntary" identity and age verification for its members.

Original story at

Digitaltrends.com
.

Related stories include:

Second Life introduces identity verification - SiliconValley.com ,
ID checks coming to Second Life - San Francisco Business Times and ...
Wired News
,
Bizjournals.com
,
Digitaltrends.com
,
Silicon.com
,
TMCnet
,
Second Life - Lawsuit. Bragg v. Linden, et al.
,
Virtually Blind - Virtual Law | Legal Issues That Impact Virtual Worlds

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Written by Adam Mutum
The environmental conservation group WWF now has a new home at Conservation Island. However, don't start searching for it on your atlas or even on Google maps. This Island only exists in the virtual World of Second Life. ...

Original story at

Agoravox
.

Related stories include:

WWF sets up 'conservation Island' on Second Life - Hippyshopper ,
World Wildlife Fund sets up Conservation Island on Second Life - Mobile Digest and ...
CNNMoney.com
,
MMORPG blog
,
ah ok lah

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Written by AC
Making money by starting a business in the virtual world known as "Second Life" has been touted as an economic wave of the future. But for the moment at least, pulling it off isn't exactly a reality. Related Stories "Second Life" ...

Original story at

Serious Games
.

Related stories include:

My ?Second Life? is harder than my first one. - Evansville Courier & Press ,
NEWS: Avatar vs. Avatar - the first Second Life lawsuit - Pocket-lint.co.uk

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