Archive for January, 2009

LOST Online in Second Life – Stupid Time Traveling Island: New Episode

I really love the show LOST. Although the time traveling island in the season premier was pretty dumb. There is an entire recreation of the Lost Online island in Second Life.

Here you see Desmond in the Hatch living his everyday life in the virtual world of Second Life.

Second Life LOST Online – [...]

Can you Feal the Beat? – Second Life Code415 Dance Club Video

I usually don’t like to show Second Life dance club videos simply because they are a little over saturated. But the below dance club movie was particularly well done. The video is for the opening of Code 415 in United Beats.

I particularly like Second Life avatars who are dancing around as well as [...]

Giving a shoutout to all the plurk users out there

Giving a shoutout to all the plurk users out there. – secondlifeup.
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Linden Lab Press Conference on Xstreet SL Exchange & OnRez in Second Life

On Thursday I attended a press conference hosted by Linden Lab regarding Xstreet SL & OnRez in Second Life.

The press conference was held inworld at the Abundance virtual sim and Lindens Catherine Smith, Tom Hale, Chris Colosi, Steven Grant, and Jay Geeseman were in attendance answering questions on the recent acquisitions of Xstreet SL and [...]

Video: LeBron James Has Nothing On Me – Shoot Some Hoops in Second Life

This video is made in Second Life and shows how an avatar can play basketball in the virtual world. With a little more development you can imagine 5 on 5 basketball gameplay or simply playing a game of horse in Second Life.

I used to be a real baller but my out of [...]

Second Life Adds Business Model: Land Sales, Currency Exchange, Now Micro Transactions Virtual Goods – Linden Lab Aquisition of Xstreet SL and OnRez

What is better then one business model in a virtual world? Why three of course. Linden Lab started off Second Life mainly profiting from the sale of virtual land.

They quickly expanded to a Currency Exchange with the Lindex. Now Linden Lab is expanding into the virtual goods micro transaction business.

In an [...]

Artistic Machinima Video: Decomposing Ego

The below is an interesting artistic machinima music video and exhibit. It was created in Second Life and entitled Decomposing Ego. It was created by Seide Tripp and Lyric Lundquist. Please to enjoy:

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Second Life Jobs – Openings: Blogger & Sales

Hello, today I would like to call attention to our Second Life Jobs page in which we are currently looking for a sales representative and guest bloggers. Please visit that page and comment with any questions you might have.
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Second Life mySQL Crash Sunday – Linden Lab Responds to 2009 Downtime with Changes

If you were wrapped up in some football awesomeness (Go Cards and Steelers in Superbowl!) then you may not have noticed that the Second Life grid went down in the late afternoon on Sunday. The outage was due to a mySQL crash. Logins were blocked and there was an outage lasting several hours.

I [...]

Graffiti Tagging in Second Life – Art or Gang Vandalization?

The below video shows a tool that helps taggers in Second Life to graffiti walls and buildings. The gang type writing can be used to create art by some and to vandalize by others. What do you think about this? Is it art or simply someone looking to vandalize and what is [...]