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An Unreal Financial Crisis You know it's bad when economic woes extend to the virtual world. |
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October 1, 2007
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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. |
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SecondLife Goes Open Source (Sort of) Second Life, which enables users to participate in a virtual world through the use of avatars, is now providing a version of its viewer application under the GPL version 2 license. |
Reason
June 2008
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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
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. |
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April 2, 2008 |
Avatars at House Hearing on Virtual World Second Life and censorship discussed on Capitol Hill. |
Insurance & Technology
April 4, 2007
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Breaking New Ground Unitrin Direct heads into uncharted territory by establishing a virtual presence in Second Life to court Web-savvy consumers. The move makes the carrier the first auto insurance company to own a building in the Second Life realm. |
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. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
November 6, 2010
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The Second Life Tinfoil Hat Theory Part 5: A Skylight Suddenly Appears (But Search is Still Broken.) Why has Linden Lab developed a browser based viewer for Second Life? |
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Sun Finds a Home in Second Life Sun Microsystems plans to invest in virtual world pavilion as a site for developers. |
Wired
June 2006
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The Other Fed Chief Philip Rosedale is the founder and CEO of Linden Lab. But he prefers to think of himself as the Federal Reserve chair of Second Life, the popular online role-playing world Linden Lab operates. |
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 |
Fast Company
October 19, 2011
Christina Chaey |
Social Gaming Summit Of the 62 million Americans who will log game time on a social network this year, some 10% will open their real-world wallets to buy virtual goods. |
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. |
Inc.
February 2007
Michael Fitzgerald |
Does Your Business Need a Second Life? Why are companies like Toyota and Dell and Starwood Hotels getting immersed in Second Life. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2007
Jill Jusko |
Virtually Everywhere: UGS In Second Life UGS launches presence on Second Life virtual world. |
Search Engine Watch
January 29, 2011
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Beast Wars: The Bunny People vs. The Horse People A Second Life dispute over breedable virtual creatures might sound silly, but it has some very high stakes and involves some very serious money. |
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October 9, 2006
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Is Sun's News For Real? Sun is holding a press conference from within Second Life, a virtual online world. |
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. |
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October 2, 2010
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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. |
CIO
February 1, 2007
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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. |
Wall Street & Technology
December 17, 2007
Melanie Rodier |
Saxo Bank CEO Says Second Life is Good for Communications and Fun Although it is still too early to tell how companies ultimately will leverage Second Life to gain strategic business advantage, the financial services industry continues to expand in the virtual world as it grows more and more popular. |
Search Engine Watch
October 9, 2010
Avril Korman |
Losing the Plot In Second Life? A Tinfoil Hat Theory About Linden Labs An unsubstantiated theory about Linden Labs & their virtual world platform |
Fast Company
July 2009
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Boomtown Virtual goods, such as avatars and Facebook gifts, are attracting major brands, celebrities, and venture capital. The money is real. |
Entrepreneur
June 2010
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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. |
InternetNews
November 24, 2006
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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. |
Fast Company
July 2009
Kate Rockwood |
How Body Sensors Are Gaming the Health System A social online game called Wellness Partners awards virtual "energy points" for real-world physical activity. |
Inc.
February 2007
Michael Fitzgerald |
My Second Life Life For all its irritating clunkiness, Second Life is intriguing. |
InternetNews
October 12, 2007
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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. |
BusinessWeek
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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. |
CRM
March 1, 2007
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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? |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
The Online Universe: An Old Fogey's Guide Here's a primer on the strange new world of online gaming. |
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. |
InternetNews
July 9, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
VMware Opens Lab Manager For iSCSI VMware is making its Lab Manager virtual lifecycle management software more accessible with the release of version 2.5 |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2006
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Palmisano Gets A Second Life IBM is embracing the virtual world of avatars - and other big companies are close behind. |
Fast Company
October 2008
Arianne Cohen |
The Second Life of Second Life Joni West's firm, This Second Marketing, has become a leader in shepherding name-brand companies back to the virtual world. |
InternetNews
March 10, 2011 |
Why do SMBs Love Virtual Offices? Survey details some of key reasons small-to-mid-size business owners, CEOs and sales managers regularly leverage virtual office capabilities. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
Virtual Land, Real Money Second Life is an online world where a savvy avatar can make a bundle. Its best known "land" developer explains how. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
March 11, 2011
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The Hydra: Privacy Problems Expand as Linden Lab Play Catch-up How the Lab's refusal to deal with overall issues of privacy in Second Life has come back to haunt them. |
Information Today
April 30, 2007 |
NOAA Lab Opens 3-D Earth Site in Second Life The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration has developed a government-sponsored earth science "island" in the rapidly growing online world of Second Life. |
Wired
October 2006 |
Wired Travel Guide: Second Life Second Life is a world of endless reinvention where you can change your shape, your sex, even your species as easily as you might slip into a pair of shoes back home. |
Entrepreneur
November 2007
Heather Clancy |
Starting Your Business' Second Life Need to breathe some life into your business? Going virtual can open up a whole new world. |
PC World
May 21, 2007
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Traveling the Web's Third Dimension My avatar, my self: Second Life shows us the future of the 3D Web. |
CIO
November 1, 2005
Dan Nystedt |
Shop While You Blog One of Taiwan's largest mobile telecom operators is launching a website that puts a new twist on blogging and opens the possibility for some real-world e-commerce down the road. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2011
Avril Korman |
Security and Responsibility on the Virtual Frontier Are we expecting too much of Linden Lab in regards to security and protection from fraud and IP theft, as well as other types of criminal activity. |
Search Engine Watch
February 12, 2011
Avril Korman |
Linden Lab Changes How it Communicates With Users -- To What End? The Lab's has rolled out changes designed to clean up the current mess that communications with the user base has become over the years. But there are also a lot of really pissed off people. Here's why. |
Inc.
February 2007
Michael Fitzgerald |
How I Did It: Philip Rosedale, CEO, Linden Lab "Second Life was just unfundable," says the man who dreamed up this virtual world. Funny how things change when you give people the ability to fly. Now everyone, including businesses of all sizes, wants a piece. |
