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Don't let the date on the announcement fool you: to all appearances, this is not an April Fools' joke. Linden Labs, the makers and operators of the popular virtual world Second Life, have announced they're working on a version of Second Life for enterprises that can be deployed as a server product behind corporate firewalls. The effort would create stand-alone, behind-the-firewall versions of Second Life that companies and… Read More

Second Life developer Linden Lab is making a major play for the pocketbooks of virtual world residents—right in its own back yard: The company has announced deals to acquire XStreet SL and OnRez, the two largest Web-based marketplaces for virtual goods in Second Life. Financial details of the deals were not disclosed. The two sites offer online marketplaces where in-world developers and content creators can offer their goods for… Read More

Amy Taylor and Dave Pollard met in an online chatroom. So perhaps there’s justice in the fact that she’s filing for real life divorce after accusing him of betraying her in a virtual relationship with another woman on Second Life, according to the Guardian. After Taylor and Pollard moved in together they both enjoyed Second Life, she as DJ Laura Skye, he as Dave Barmy. All was well until she discovered him having cyber sex with… Read More

At this week's Virtual Worlds Expo, Linden Labs, the creators of the popular virtual world Second Life, announced a new instant messaging and voice client that will let Second Life residents communicate with the Second Life world without the significant overhead of the full-blown Second Life clients. Dubbed “SLim,” the application will enable users to chat with their Second Life cohorts, breaking down some of the barriers… Read More

Second Life may appear to be a bumble of awkwardly animated characters stuttering around in a virtual world of their own creation, but the United States Congress wants to know what’s really going on behind the scenes. In a House subcommittee hearing held on Tuesday, members drilled Second Life founder Philip Rosedale on the game’s capacity for crime. According to the Los Angeles Times, members of the subcommittee asked about… Read More

The division between real and virtual worlds becomes thinner and thinner. Beginning today on a one-month trial, BT will let your avatar on Second Life make 10 free phone calls – each lasting up to an hour – and send 10 text messages to the real world using its Avatalk service.   Userscan either use the red BT phone boxes, or they can obtain a heads-up display allowing them to make calls from a number of locations.   Matt… Read More

The virtual world Second Life is losing one of it's founders: controversial chief technology officer Cory Onrejka—known in-world as Cory Linden—will be leaving the company at the end of the year. Although Linden Labs' CEO Philip Rosedale describs Onrejka's departure as a move to “pursue new professional challenges out side the company,” both Onrejka and Rosedale have acknowledged the departure stems… Read More

Second Life developer Linden Lab is working on rolling out technology which will let in-world avatars receive telephone calls from the real world. Beginning in the first quarter of 2008, Second Life users will be able to have real-world phone numbers associated with their in-world avatars; from that point, users will be able to receive real-world phone calls within Second Life using the virtual world's already-deployed voice… Read More

It was bound to happen sometime. A country has opened an embassy in Second Life, the fantasy world. Yesterday the Swedish Embassy opened for business there,claiming to be the first embassy in the virtual domain, although there are rumors that they were beaten to the punch by the tiny Maldives Islands.   Known as The Second House of Sweden, it wasinaugurated by Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Director General of the Swedish… Read More

Broadcast television network CBS has bought into a $7 million round of financing for virtual content developer Electric Sheep, which develops properties and presences in online worlds like Linden Lab's Second Life. Electric Sheep has developed virtual properties for Fortune 500 companies including AOL, NBC, Viacam, and others, including several in-world creations in Second Life to promote Major League Baseball, MTV's Laguna… Read More

The Swedish Institute has announced (Swedish) plans to open an embassy in the 3-D virtual world Second Life. To named the “House of Sweden,” the virtual site will mirror the construction of Sweden's embassy in Washington, D.C., and will act as the nation's virtual representative to the over three million people from around the world who have alternate identities in Second Life. General Director for the Swedish… Read More

International news service Reuters announced today that it plans to open a virtual news bureau in the online virtual reality game Second Life from San Francisco's Linden Lab. The bureau will be run by a virtual representation of Reuters correspondent Adam Pasick, who will be present in the game under the name “Adam Reuters.” “As strange as it might seem, it's not that different from being a reporter in the… Read More

Quote from the guide: ” A simple explanation for how TV works is that a transmission signal sends information to your TV. The information tells the TV what the picture is supposed to look like. Once received, the TV paints that picture onto the screen pixel by pixel, forming horizontal rows, called 'scan lines,' across the screen. The TV continues to paint and re-paint these scan lines multiple times every second. This… Read More