By Stone Culdesac

Second Life, Pac Man, and Computer Chess Recently, I was asked my professional opinion about Second Life, and this is one answer.

When I give periodic talks about Google, I demo Google Gadgets and show the variety of them, including ones that are games such as Space Invaders or Pac Man. Usually I make a joke about how great this is, because now I don’t have to be bored at work anymore, that I’m ranked in the top 100 of Space Invaders, but with another slow semester I’ll probably make the top 10.

Second Life to host virtual career fair Second Life is to host the UK’s first virtual world career fair, run by recruitment and communications firm TMP Worldwide.

The three-day I-Jobs For Real fair will take place on TMP’s ‘island’ in Second Life from 16:00 to 20:00 BST between 16 and 18 October.

Second Lifers Now Get the Cash Alternative London 16th October 2007: Residents of Second Life can now become cash buyers for land and property in their virtual world.

By stepping up to the Ukash terminals located in the Bulido Money Service outlets in the phenomenally successful virtual world, the millions of Second Lifer residents can now use Ukash cash vouchers to get Linden Dollars, the official Second life currency.

NMC’s Orientation Island Honors The Home of Linden Lab After collecting a long list of suggestions from our communities for what to include in an Orientation Island experience, we are ready to have some early birds test out NMC Orientation, our new entry in Second Life designed specifically for students and educators. Our use of the Second Life Registration API allows us to have our own web site for creating new accounts and when these new users first log in to Second Life, they will find themselves at the NMC Orientation Island, rather than the public one most of us experienced (and hopefully survived).

At last - Media in Second Life is freeeeeee! After talking to its inventor today, Second Life avatar “Unmitigated Gall”, I am reasonably convinced that the object you see above - the SliPod Media Antenna will revolutionize the way media is delivered in the virtual world of Second Life.

Government’s second-crack Summit to employ Second Life Online forums, or even a Second Life presence, will be among ways of engaging in the debate at the Digital Future Summit 2.0 next month.

The organizers of the summit are, however, looking to avoid a technology-focused discussion in favor of a “national conversation” on how ICT can be directed to the benefit of the economy and life of the country, says digital strategy programme manager Janet Mazenier.

Getting a Second Life Australians are early adopters of technology. Think of the rapid rate of take up of ATMs, mobile phones and flat screen TVs. So, it is hardly surprising that Australian companies are beginning to enter the brave new world of Second Life.

Second Life, with population of almost eight million (according to some sources), is changing the way businesses think about what their customers want, and whether “virtual” is a viable way to give it to them.

Vodafone calls into Second Life with InsideOut This is something that’s been talked about for quite a while but now actually seems to be operating…Vodafone InsideOut.

The service links people in the real world and virtual world Second Life through their mobiles. It is an attempt to take communications across both worlds and link together people’s identities on and offline.

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The buzz about Second Life in Poland and the rest of the world explained based on technology hype cycle idea. Future of Second Life and similar virtual realities discussed.

Ways to Avoid Electronic Contract Killers in Second Life The creators of Second Life — an online virtual community — faced some real-life problems in a Pennsylvania court recently. In Bragg v. Linden Research, Inc., No. CIV.A06 4925 (E.D.P.A. May 30, 2007), Judge Eduardo C. Robreno, denying a motion to compel arbitration, offers attorneys and their clients some useful guidelines to consider when drafting standard electronic form contracts.

Life after a doctorate I am being forced to contemplate a future other than that which I usually imagine, in which I bumble along in the college I’m currently in, write a book people are vaguely nice about, and become a fondly regarded elderly eccentric who inspires a passion for political theory in students, despite having crumbs in his beard. Except it’s the future, so it’ll be nanobots in my beard. And the college may be in Second Life. But you get the picture.

Open Standards Coming to Second Life? In an effort to shift virtual worlds to the broader realm of the World Wide Web, Linden Lab and IBM are partnering to bring open standards and interoperability to Second Life, the online 3D realm created by Linden Lab. The two will also be working with a broad range of industry partners and have discussed the formation of an open consortium for all comers to engage in the effort.

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Friends Online is Back! I know that many of you have been anxiously awaiting the return of the Friends Online functionality. I am happy to announce that the issues with this service have now been resolved and it is now back online. Thanks for your patience while we hammered this service back into shape.

Op/Ed: The Free Fandom Project Popular books and films naturally create fanboys and fangirls, and these subcultures have taken to heart the Second Life mantra - your world, your imagination. How can we improve Second Life for these players? We need to nurture true fandom.

Entrepreneurs turn ’second life’ into big profits with popular site Flying is senior Kris Rudeegraap’s favorite thing to do - in his second life that is. But Rudeegraap’s second life isn’t in the real world, it’s virtual.

SecondLife.com is a popular Web site where users create avatars, virtual characters, eat, go on dates with other avatars and even have sex.

Join us in Second Life today for a Stand Against Poverty! Please join FightHunger.org’s avatar Fight Hunchke today for the Stand Up Against Poverty event. This event is coordinated by the United Nations Millennium Campaign and will be held within Second Life for the second year in a row. The Stand Up Against Poverty event in Second Life will be hosted today 17th of October in the Fight Hunger office at the Plush Nonprofit Commons.

Find out more at this link, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/4/229/26/.

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