By Stone Culdesac

eLab City - New Second Life Research Project eLab City will be a two-island sim in Second Life. It is being developed by the University of California, Riverside, Sloan Center for Internet Retailing, for the purpose of studying consumer behavior in virtual worlds.

Gold on the Teen Grid (if you know where to look) I’m sharing it because I think it’s a great example of the hope and promise Teen Second Life has as an educational environment, and sets a high standard for the skills, behaviors and professionalism teens can develop in-world that carry over into real life.

Second Lifers: Alcatel-Lucent wants to pick your brains Alcatel-Lucent is inviting residents of the Second Life social networking and virtual reality site to envision and design the wireless devices and applications they think will be possible in 2017, when mobile networks will support always-on connectivity at gigabit bandwidths.

CSI:NY Viewers Come to Second Life Tomorrow Well it seems TV and SL will be brought together in a big way tomorrow night. I think it’s better to just post the details Glenn Linden wrote on a notecards that are being passed around Second Life. The whole thing seems very exciting, and it seems they expect it to drive up traffic in a big way. I have seen second Life mentioned on shows before, but not on this level. I’m excited about watching!

Could Preserving Second Life Create Big Brother One of the big problems with second life when they talk about preserving it is this interactive experience. Linden doesn’t do things like keep careful track of what users are saying, they’re not filling their disks with years and years of transaction logs - I’m sure the users are very happy about that…

Second Life’s 2nd Try This is my second time signing up to join Second Life. I first signed up last Christmas after I read an article about it on an airplane. I was excited to join; it was going to be the perfect way to waste time while I was bored at home during winter break. Too bad I couldn’t get off the stupid welcome island.

Discover Ireland - in Second Life Tourism Ireland has announced it will be hosting a series of promotional events in Second Life’s ‘virtual Dublin’ to market Irish tourism to the community’s users.

Updates and Further Information on the New Search Project An update on the new search, fixing problems like objects not showing up in search, etc, and more info.

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Artificial life rears its head Aw, look how cute. The old executives at CBS are trying to be “cool” or “hip” or whatever. In tonight’s “CSI: NY,” Mac goes snooping in the virtual world of “Second Life” to catch a killer. Artificial art imitates artificial life.

Preview! CSI: NY Goes Virtual with Second Life CSI mastermind Anthony Zuiker wants to take over the world. Not the TV world — with three ratings-hot procedurals, he pretty much already has. We’re talking about the virtual on­line world known as Second Life.

Experience an Italian Language Lesson in Second Life What is it then? Log in Second Life, come to the Italian Campus Classes and enter in one of the first experiment of Italian language course held in Second Life. The Italian lessons will be hosted by the “Second Life Festival” inside the Official Island of Tuscany during the “Festival della Creatività” (Creativity Festival) organized from 25th to 28th October.

Residents of Second Life Stood Up against poverty Over 38.8 million people, in 110 countries participated in this years Stand Up and Speak Out event, a global initiative launched by the United Nations Millennium Campaign, to show support for the UN Millennium Development goals and against poverty.

CSI: NY - Opportunity or Massive Disaster? Later tonight, the new episode of CSI: NY will be shown and will coincide with the release of a new Second Life viewer. The AOLized viewer from Electric Sheep, called OnRez will be available for new users that sign up to SL through the CBS web site and to current residents. Some people are estimating that this will have the effect of giving SL 1,000,000 new sign-ups.

Second Life: live and unplugged Live music gigs and performances by artists who are famous in real life and Second Life are becoming increasingly popular and are part of the future of entertainment says Lord Mayor, or owner, of Second Life’s Dublin, John Mahon.

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