The Future of Virtual Worlds Are virtual worlds like Second Life here to stay? My answer is “yes, but.” Yes, but virtual worlds are part of a long-term transition which also includes the mobile Internet. Yes, but the result will be a complete transformation in how we think about being “on the Internet” vs. being “away from the computer.” Yes, but Second Life might not be the virtual world’s platform of the future.

Riches in your Second Life From fashion to ‘Bollywood’, paintings to entertainment and IT, more companies are discovering money in Second Life. Dean Williams talks to denizens of the other ‘reality’ about the future of a company in the virtual world

This is the future,” says Siddharth Banerjee, CEO and founder of Mumbai-based Indusgeeks, referring to the rise and rise of the virtual world Second Life (SL). And it is a future that multinational companies across the globe are increasingly paying heed to.

Banned Books Week hits MySpace, Facebook, and Second Life American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) is pulling out all the stops with this year’s Banned Books Week, September 29–October 6, 2007, by taking the show on the digital road, so to speak, with events and official listings in Web 2.0 spaces like MySpace (no account required to view), Facebook (you need an account to view and join the Banned Books Week group), and Second Life.

5 common myths about Second Life Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time in Second Life talking to new users, and also talking to companies/institutions that want to get into Second Life. And one thing my colleagues and I have noticed is that some Second Life myths are still very popular among people. That is why I think that it’s important to talk about what Second Life is and what Second Life isn’t with a good dose of realism. So, here is our list of some of common myths that should in our opinion be addressed in any serious meeting/discussion about Second Life (and other virtual worlds).

Metaplace.com: “Second Life Killer?” My friend and colleague Sylvia Martinez over at Generation YES just blogged about Metaplace, a brand new development environment that some people are calling a “Second Life Killer.” Holy hyperbole, Batman!

Virtual travel on Second Life Our tour started exotically enough, with castles and Mayan ruins and jungle, a tree with steam coming out of it, and snow falling below moss-covered towers.

But as we passed the Science Fiction museum, things got strange. That’s when the flying purple dragon we were riding stopped moving and the screen turned white.

Second Life Grid Architecture Meet up tomorrow If you want to know more about the new Second Life Grid Architecture which Zero Linden talked about in this blogpost you should join me tomorrow at 11 am SLT in our sim Stadt.

Investing virtually: New Delhi is India’s First City on Second Life Mumbai may be the country’s financial capital but it is Delhiites who rule virtual reality finance. Of the over 12,000 active users of Second Life, the net-based virtual reality (VR) world, from India, nearly 9,000 are from Delhi. And about 90 per cent of the accounts registered from Delhi are engaged in some serious financial investments.

My Second Life brings virtual world alive on TV When HBO won a bidding war early this month to telecast My Second Life, it marked a media breakthrough — a television network buying an online property that was completely created in a virtual world.

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