It looks like PayPal will no longer be the only option for international Second Life payments. As business for Linden Lab continues to stretch across the globe and multiple languages it is becoming increasingly more important to be flexible when accepting payments from international customers using different currencies and under different financial regulations.

In that [...]

We wrote before that Liden Lab was looking for a new PR firm. It looks like Edelman has been chosen as the new company to try and reinvigorate the public image and advertising of Second Life.

Time will tell if this can be a highly beneficial move for Linden Lab and Second Life.
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Linden Lab has announced a new freebies policy for listing products on XStreet SL. There will now be a fee for listing freebies. Within the next 90 days the policy will become active. While freebies will not actually be removed completely, they seem to be highly discouraged.

Basically the Monthly Listing Fee will [...]

Phillip Rosedale, the founder of Second Life is hiring an Executive Assistant for his new P-Squared company. The job was posted on craigslist yesterday. It is a little bit unorthodox.

In order to apply you have to be a unique person capable of working in a different kind of workplace. And there is [...]

We have written before about the Virtual King Tut exhibit. Rezzable is now sponsoring a photo contest of the virtual King Tut on the OpenSimulator Grid.
The top three winners get $100 USD each. There will be one winner for each category:

1. Avatars exploring

2. What in King Tut Virtual would you show to your [...]

AVESS which is the Amputee Virtual Environment Support Space will be launching to help the amputees in the United States Army. The project is a partnership with Virtual Ability Inc. Funding is provided by the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center. The project will use the Second Life Enterprise Platform.

President of Virtual [...]

It seems like we just finished Burning Life 2009 and Halloween in Second Life but already it is time for Winterfest.
This means snowball fights, snowman building contests, ice skating, and Christmas decorations. And of course the Winterfest Spotlight is taking submissions. The deadline for sellers of virtual items is November 11, [...]

There is a huge benefit to virtual meetings and 3d training. But even I was surprised to learn that the secure Second Life Enterprise version costs an astonishing $55,000. Of course this does include the hardware (two 1RU rack-mount servers) but the price seemed a bit of a shock given it can be [...]

Bettina Tizzy is shutting down the Not Possible in Real Life blog after almost 3 years (the Not Possible IRL blog was started on July 4, 2007). This blog covered Second Life and other 3d virtual worlds and focused mainly on art, fashion, architecuture and content in the virtual world.

Goodbye to the NPIRL blog [...]

Nokia and IBM are creating a virtual reality conference system in Second Life. The system uses cameras mounted on your head and incorporates actions and objects into Second Life. Charles Woodward from the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland is leading the project. Check out the below video demonstration of the Augmented [...]