Vodafone launches mobile operation in Second Life Vodafone has launched a mobile operation in Second Life enabling users to connect real life with the virtual world.

Vodafone Inside Out, which launched yesterday in beta, will only be advertised in the virtual world through Second Life newspapers The AvaStar and Metaverse Messenger.

Your Secret Is Out: Online Anonymity Is Disappearing Second Life is a place where you go to live out fantasies. The virtual world lets you pick your body shape, eye color, age and gender. But now Second Life wants to know the real you.

Good Design Award 2007 BEST 15 Second Life among the 15 good design award winners for 2007.

Second Life Web Browser actually works Briefly tried the new Second Life Web Browser that I heard about from New World Notes in a post titled: Movable Metaverse: Japanese company creates 2nd Web-based Second Life browser.

While the browser worked and I was able to log in transport around, I found the overall experience unsatisfying at this point, as I could not really do all the same things in Second Life I normally do - and using a Google Maps mash-up seems to be not quite the right way to go.

Running Second Life On Ubuntu Hello, I am planning on becoming a new ubuntu user in the near future. I am also planning on using second life on ubuntu. I am planning on buying a used hp notebook that has an ati mobile radeon graphics card installed. However on second life’s website they state that minimum system requirements recommend that you need a radeon 8600 or 9650 for best performance.

More automakers leading a Second Life The virtual world Second Life is a virtual dream for marketers, with branding opportunities aplenty. As the online universe has grown, so too has the number of automobile manufacturers with a presence in the “game,” for lack of a better term. KZERO is a consulting firm that helps companies study Second Life and other online virtual communities, and in a blog post that’s basically shilling a case study they’d like to sell prospective clients, we’re given a glimpse at the number of automakers involved in SL.

Second Life Indicator Contracts (SLICs) In this post, I throw down the gauntlet to those running (or considering running) a trading exchange in Second Life—create a ‘Second Life Indicator Contract’ (SLIC) that would predict the future user base or economic activity in Second Life.

Further Information on Second Life Issues, 1st-2nd October I’d like to supply more information about the Second Life service problems of the past few days.

There were two primary problems: a change to the way we perform rolling simulator updates, and a hardware failure with the VPNs which allow distant Second Life servers to communicate. I’ll describe both of these failures in detail, below the fold …

“Tube It” Unofficial You Tube Song in Second Life Machinima “Tube It” The unofficial You Tube “anthem” cut via machinima. Heavy on the particle effects, but well done port. The lyrics do speak to the times, I am sure my kids will enjoy it. “Tube it, tube it, everybody doing it. Off like a rocket, and now you can’t stop it”

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