From: CodeBastard Redgrave Petition: We need moar than 25 groups in SecondLife! Quote from the site - I wont go in details on how annoying the 25 groups limitation in Secondlife is (yes, you can thank me, I won’t!). Most of you hate it. But groups is essential not only to receive spammage, but also especially to manage property and salespoint. As an aspiring land shark I feel this limitation is seriously borking my ambitions for total world domination.

From: Reuters/Second Life Second Life usage down over five percent in November Quote from the site - Month-to-month usage of Second Life declined sharply in November, according to new statistics released by Linden Lab.

From: ITUG Connection: Real Time View Virtualization? Unreal, mate! Quote from the site - I wandered into Second Life last night and took the opportunity to check out what was going on, and the picture I have included here is of my avatar, RT Writer.

From: Junior Dr Virtual doctors - medical training in Second Life Quote from the site - Forget those late nights on the wards grappling with real patients to perfect taking a history for the MRCP - medical training is going virtual. Second Life, the online 3D world, is set to become the world’s largest medical training institution and, as Bertalan Meskó reports, it could change the way we view education entirely.

From: Rezzable Space Invaders Race Quote from the site - The Greenies invite you to celebrate the holidays as they do! Their delegate, Miki Gymnast, will be awarding Linden dollar prizes to the fastest racer (L$ 10,000) and best racing costume (L$ 5,000) in two hoverboard racing events taking place December 20th and December 25th.

From: Wayne Porter WoW Cheating, Second Life’s Second Iteration and Imaginary Circles Quote from the site - Fleep Tuque (aka Chris Collins), an educator who I have a lot of respect for and know through an interesting string of “chain reactions” incited by micro media, had an interesting comment on the introduction of Live Gamer into the mix…it seemed like cheating. I replied back, but my blog seems to be eating comments so I figured I would expend what thought I had left looking at this and some other topics.

From: metaversed Video Network Of The Future Quote from the site - In the 8 months that SLCN has been streaming video they have revolutionized the way we think about media in virtual worlds. We had the opportunity to speak with Wiz Nordberg, CEO of SLCN, to find out more about what is fast becoming one of the most influential forces in Second Life.

From: metaversed The Foundations Of The Metaverse Quote from the site - This week’s guest on Metanomics was Dr. Yesha Sivan, an Israelean entrepreneur and professor at the Tel Aviv University. He’s the founder of Metaversed Labs (MVL), a think-tank that’s helping to design the standards upon which the future Metaverse will be built.

From: The Click Heard Round the World Put out to pasture Quote from the site - Yes, the stories are true. I got laid off.

Me, along with apparently 21 other employees of the Electric Sheep Company, were informed on Monday that their positions were terminated.

From: New World Notes New World Newsfeed: Ex-Lindens on Cory Linden’s Leaving; Philip Linden Responds Quote from the site - Several people have asked me if I had any inside insights on Cory Linden’s departure from the company last week, giving up his role as Chief Technology Officer; in all honesty, Linden Lab has changed so much since my own exit in February 2006, it’s difficult (and irresponsible) of me to offer anything but wild speculation.

From: Project Good Luck Second Life Cory Ondrejka adieu: virtual world design history Quote from the site - This is an excerpt from my interview with Cory Ondrejka, the CTO of Linden Lab (LL) and the primary author of the Second Life world design and scripting language.

From: Tom Cotton’s 8109 Bottling Second Life in digital video Quote from the site - The first cut of the video showed how unexciting talking heads are in SecondLife. May as well have a simple audio file with a few pictures.

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