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Entrepreneur
November 2007
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Starting Your Business' Second Life Need to breathe some life into your business? Going virtual can open up a whole new world.   |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2008
Tim Beyers |
An Unreal Financial Crisis You know it's bad when economic woes extend to the virtual world. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2006
Steve Hamm |
Palmisano Gets A Second Life IBM is embracing the virtual world of avatars - and other big companies are close behind. |
Inc.
January 2009
Nitasha Tiku |
Update Linden Lab is still going through some real-world growing pains. |
Entrepreneur
February 2007
Gwen Moran |
Hot New Market: Online Worlds Should you take your business to the virtual world? |
InternetNews
October 12, 2007
Susan Kuchinskas |
Hey IT, Welcome to the Bverse IBM and Linden Labs, creator of Second Life, announced an initiative to create open standards and interoperability allowing people to move their avatars and virtual goods from one world to another. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2008
Anders Bylund |
IBM Moves Into the Virtual World Second Life and IBM just showed that the massive Second Life world can connect to IBM's OpenSim servers. This could be the beginning of open standards that would connect every conceivable virtual reality network to each other. |
CRM
March 1, 2007
Jessica Sebor |
Material Living in a Virtual World Companies are looking to take a piece of Second Life's digital pie because of its explosive membership, but will this move prove virtually insignificant? |
AskMen.com
Phil Helm |
5 Things You Didn't Know About Second Life Maybe you've tried and liked Second Life and maybe you haven't; either way there are surely a few things about the virtual world that may surprise you. |
Knowledge@Wharton
September 24, 2003 |
In Norrath, Tattoine and Rubi-ka, Just What Are Your Legal Rights? Even though virtual worlds are nothing more than code residing in banks of computers, what goes on in them poses challenges to our notions about the nature of property, the legal rights of players in virtual worlds and even the presumed boundary between the real and the imagined worlds. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
IBM's Mid-"Life" Crisis The company's move into the virtual reality of "Second Life" is an innovative one. |
CIO
February 1, 2007
Margaret Locher |
Targeting Customers in Second Life If you're trying to help your company or your customers market products or services in Second Life, where more than 84 million real-world dollars changed hands in 2006, beware: Old-world advertising wisdom won't play. |
InternetNews
October 9, 2006
David Needle |
Is Sun's News For Real? Sun is holding a press conference from within Second Life, a virtual online world. |
InternetNews
April 3, 2008 |
IBM Readies Second Life For Enterprise IBM said on Wednesday it would become the first company to host private regions of the virtual world Second Life on its own computer servers. |
The Motley Fool
October 24, 2008
Tim Beyers |
One Disruptive Growth Company Cash. Lots of cold, hard moola is making its way into online virtual worlds. Media companies and venture capital firms have pumped $493 million into Second Life wannabes during 2008. |
InternetNews
April 2, 2008 |
Avatars at House Hearing on Virtual World Second Life and censorship discussed on Capitol Hill. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006
Robert D. Hof |
It's Not All Fun And Games Companies are also starting to use virtual worlds as alternate offices in which colleagues and partners can meet and view materials that the Web isn't rich enough to display well. |
Wired
July 24, 2007
Frank Rose |
How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life More and more people are leaving this virtual world, leaving advertisers and big name companies behind. |
InternetNews
November 24, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Get a Life: Enterprises Eye Potential For Second Life Enterprises are dipping their toes in the waters of virtual worlds, but may have to wait to see the benefits. |
Information Today
July 14, 2008
Lori Bell |
As the (Virtual) Worlds Turn Google released Lively, a public beta version of its much-anticipated three-dimensional virtual world. |
Fast Company
February 1, 2007 |
Fast Talk: Getting A (Second) Life Chuck Hamilton is using Second Life to train new IBM hires. And he looks darned good in a kilt. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2009
John K. Waters |
A 'Second Life' For Educators Lauded as a learning tool, the popular virtual world is now being used by teachers for their own enrichment, providing them with a wealth of opportunities for collaboration, peer interaction, and sharing of resources. |
Entrepreneur
August 2007
Amanda C. Kooser |
Take It Online Virtual trade shows, expos and conventions take care of some very real business. And why not? Online events are cost-effective, faster and easier. |
Insurance & Technology
February 1, 2007
Katherine Burger |
The Buzz About Linden Lab's Second Life Raises Possibilities for Insurance Companies The media buzz about Linden Lab's Second Life online digital world raises commerce and customer possibilities for insurance companies and other financial institutions. |
Entrepreneur
February 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
Out of This World Opportunities abound in online gaming. |
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Zwinky Gets Swanky IAC tries its hand at creating a virtual community for kids. |
Entrepreneur
March 2007
Sara Wilson |
Unreal World The creator of today's hottest virtual land offers a glimpse into his reality. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2010
Jonathan Allen |
9 Reasons Why it Might Be Time For Marketers to Value Virtual Goods Convergence of web, mobile and TV may create stronger emotional connections between audiences. |
The Motley Fool
October 16, 2006
Tim Beyers |
IRS to Tax Your Second Life? Congressional economists are beginning to weigh the question of how to tax digital assets amassed in multiplayer online games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life. How can this benefit your portfolio? |
PC Magazine
October 28, 2003
Dan Costa |
Virtual Worlds Tired of the real world? Try a virtual one. These sites can have the graphic richness of massively multiplayer online role-playing games but are focused more on social activities and creativity than on dragon-slaying. |
PC Magazine
August 29, 2007
John R. Quain |
Virtual Life, Real Crime? As a crime wave sweeps Second Life, adherents are looking for answers. |
PC World
October 2, 2006
Mark Wallace |
The Future of You Think the Net has changed your life? Wait until it becomes an immersive 3D environment. |
Science News
June 2, 2007 |
Science Safari: NOAA's Virtual World Players of the virtual reality game Second Life can now soar through a virtual hurricane at NOAA's new site. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
My Virtual Life A journey into a place in cyberspace where thousands of people have imaginary lives. Some even make a good living. Big advertisers are taking notice. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2008
Anders Bylund |
IBM Builds Servers, VMware Builds Repute VMware announces that its "hypervisor" virtual machine manager will ship pre-installed on server systems from some of the biggest names in the data center. |
InternetNews
January 22, 2007
Michael Hickins |
IBM's Social-Network Experiment IBM announced today that customers will be able to attend its annual Lotusphere conference virtually on Second Life, a 3-D virtual-reality world. |
Entrepreneur
June 2010
Jason Daley |
Should We Meet in Another World? Second Life tries for a second coming with a new environment designed to be a less seedy, more secure place to do business. |
Fast Company
July 2009
Michael Fitzgerald |
Boomtown Virtual goods, such as avatars and Facebook gifts, are attracting major brands, celebrities, and venture capital. The money is real. |
PC World
January 29, 2007
Julian Dibbel |
Virtual Gold Could Draw Real Taxes Congress is investigating whether the IRS should tax online game loot. |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2010
Anders Bylund |
How Clear Is IBM's Crystal Ball? IBM paints a vivid picture of the future. Should we pay attention? |
PC Magazine
November 29, 2006
John C. Dvorak |
Unreal Life? Get a Life When early online social-networking schemes appeared, I was skeptical about their usefulness. |
BusinessWeek
August 13, 2007
Aili McConnon |
Just Ahead: The Web As A Virtual World Imagine being able to have a digital replica of yourself stroll from one site to another. |
InternetNews
November 13, 2009 |
IBM Debuts Virtual Server Security App IBM on Friday jumped on the virtualization security bandwagon with the release of Virtual Server Security for VMware vSphere, an application designed to secure workloads running on virtual servers. |
Reason
June 2008
Wagner James Au |
Virtually Free The garish, skyscraper-sized billboards that subscribers to Second Life had learned to tolerate as part of their three-dimensional landscape are no more. |
InternetNews
December 11, 2009 |
Feds Cite Child Safety Hazards on Virtual Worlds Agency releases report detailing shortcomings in online child safety mechanisms |
InternetNews
September 24, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Virtual Security? The PHANTOM Knows. IBM's PHANTOM project aims to detect ghosts in the virtual machine. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Rachel Courtland |
Virtual Currency Gets Real Will Facebook Credits and other social scrip challenge government-backed currencies? |
CFO
October 1, 2007
Alan Rappeport |
Second Life's John Zdanowski The CFO of Second Life explains what the online virtual world is all about, and how his real-world company measures and rewards employee performance with the Love Machine. |
Entrepreneur
October 2005
Nichole L. Torres |
What Office? Going virtual might be just what your company needs to save cash, increase profits and expand. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Michael Tennesen |
Avatar Acts: Why Online Realities Need Regulation Conflicts on environments like Second Life can open up new legal questions |
