From: onrec.com First run of ‘working worlds’ virtual job fair on Second Life is big success Quote from the site - On Wednesday 28 November 2007, ‘Working Worlds’, the first virtual job fair for Luxembourg, was held on Second Life. Organised by GAX Technologies, the fair was a significant success, bringing together professionals from 45 countries world-wide who were vying for jobs from Amazon EU, Dexia, Hays, Interfiduciaire, Kaupthing Bank, Lombard International Assurance, Manpower, Openfield, Randstad and Vistra.

From: Podcaster News Mental Health Missives Quote from the site - Hello, and welcome to a story about a friend of mine in Second Life. This friend seemed about to go off world in a very serious way.

From: Information Week Second Life Residents To Get Calls From The Real World Quote from the site - Avatars will be able to sign up for phone numbers and get phone calls from the physical plane — one of a series of new voice and chat upgrades planned for the virtual world.

From: MMORPG blog Linden Lab releases Age Verification into Second Life beta Quote from the site - With the presence of mature content in the virtual world known as Second Life, Linden Lab has seen it fit to introduce an Age Verification feature into their Second Life beta as a means of warning minors and other adults who may prefer to stay away from adult content.

From: Business Communicators of Second Life Meeting Transcript: SL Business Communicators Meeting Dec 7 with Orange Quote from the site - SL Business Communictors and members of the Orange group were hosted by international telecom company, Orange on their Second Life sim. With light snow falling, Stephane Adamiak (aka Sarn Aska) of Orange’s gaming division, dialed us into the Orange SL project.

From: Freakonomics Second Life Creator Philip Rosedale Will Now Take Your Questions Quote from the site - You could argue that Philip Rosedale has done more than anyone else to help millions of people live their dreams. As the founder and CEO of Linden Lab, the San Francisco-based company that created Second Life (which we’ve blogged about now and again), he has taken virtual reality to a whole new place.

From: cogdogblog Second Life Live Video Stream Setup Quote from the site - My home office technology used for the NMC Symposium on Evolution of Communcation held entirely in Second Life. The PC on the left, a high HP game station, is my Second Life camera, operated by my alt avatar, Zoraster Gaffer.

From: Jeff Barr’s Blog Dynamic System Modeling in Second Life Quote from the site - For the last couple of months I’ve been trying to wrestle an abstract picture out of my head and in to Second Life. This is apparently easy for some people, but it has been a real struggle for me.

From: Blend Technology Second Life Starts A Film Festival Quote from the site - Second Life is working hard to become a real world. First it has its own currency, then it’s own time zone, now it’s getting its own film festival.

From: This is HERD The rise and fall and rise again of Second Life Quote from the site - PBS (The American public broadcaster) has a must-read piece on its media shift blog for anyone interested in the virtual world Second Life.

From: Guardian Unlimited Academic to host sex ed class on Second Life Quote from the site - A senior Salford University academic is to venture on to the social networking site Second Life to bring sex education to teenagers online.

From: Second Life Blog Land Supply and Pricing for late 2007 and through Q1 2008 Quote from the site - I’d like to talk a little about land supply for the upcoming period, and also to address the many of you that have asked us whether land pricing changes are coming soon. A year ago, in November 2006, we stated that prices would not change before end of 2007 and so with 2008 fast approaching it is a good time to discuss it.

From: Second Life Blog Second Life Havok4 Beta Preview Refreshed 2007-12-07 Quote from the site - The Second Life Beta Preview has been refreshed with our latest updates. We have now been running the Havok4 simulator on our internal Linden regions since the last refresh (”eating our own dog food”) and we will shortly be expanding the testing process in preparation for wider use of this new simulator.

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