Jan 15
Second Life News for January 15, 2008
From: Technician Online Campus gets a Second Life Quote from the site - The DELTA team needed to make a decision.
It was mid-June and several staff members from the division, known more formally as Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications, sat around a table discussing how their most recent project would move forward.
From: InventorSpot A Second Life in Israel Quote from the site - Second Life Israel was launched Sunday, enabling Second Life users from around the world to visit Israel’s beaches and historic sites. The virtual state, preceded by a whole Jewish neighborhood in Second Life, is a work in progress, meant to, “present Israel to a global audience beyond the traditional media,” according to co-founder Chaim Landau.
From: abc News Asperger’s Therapy Hits Second Life Quote from the site - Texas researchers believe that people suffering from Asperger’s syndrome — a cognitive disorder often referred to as high-functioning autism — may have found a new therapy in an unlikely place: the online virtual world Second Life.
From: dvice Even virtual economies are bearish: Second Life bans banking Quote from the site - In August Linden Labs, the creator of Second Life, banned in-world gambling for legal and logistical reasons. Now the company has banned banks, further tightening restrictions on freedom in the alternative on-line universe.
From: openPR Euro reaches All-Time-High of over 400 Linden dollars per Euro Quote from the site - Today, the continued weakness of the US dollar versus the Euro helped push the Euro higher versus the Linden Dollar as well: At 12 noon, the mid-price (i.e. the average of bid and ask prices) of the EUR/SLL cross on the euroSLEX pushed through resistance at 400 and reached 403.4.
From: Diggin Digitally More on Second Life, Web services Quote from the site - Shawn Graham got the ball rolling with his discussion of applying Second Life as an instructional platform for archaeology. It seems to have had some resonance with other archaeo-bloggers (see ClioAudio, and ArchaeoGeek). ArchaeoGeek noted some fascinating work attempting to link GIS-type capabilities in Second Life. They even have an elaborate model of downtown Berkeley, including BART station.
From: Queen’s University Ask the Techies: “Second LIfe” Orientation & Introduction 1-Hour Special Quote from the site - Chris Keesey of Ohio University joins host D.Lee Beard in explaining the popular online 3-D world known as Second Life.
From: Discovery Educator Network It’s Not too Late for a Second Life Experience Quote from the site - A year ago fellow Star Discovery Educator Jennifer Brinson and I joined Jennifer Dorman in a “Making History Come Alive” issue of the Discovery Educators Resource Guide. Our article’s focus was What If You Could Change History? This time I have a different sales pitch: Want to Make History? That’s right.
From: Studio Wikitecture Importing and Exporting in Second Life: Oh, How I Pine. Quote from the site - I’ve been using Second Life for a number of years now to run experiments, through our ‘Studio Wikitecture’ group, to see if a Metaverse, such as SL might one day act as the platform for collective intelligence in architecture and urban planning. I’m also an active member of the ‘RL Architects in SL’ group. As you can imagine, most of the members that compose these two groups are architects.
From: New World Notes Women Rule: *L Word* in Second Life Wins Emmy, Contract Extension; *Gossip Girls* in SL Boasts 38K Monthly Uniques Quote from the site - Shortly before the New Year, leading metaverse developer the Electric Sheep Company laid off a large part of its staff, a move many (including the Times) interpreted as a “sign of the times”. Which is ironic, because a few weeks later, the Sheep won a 2007 Emmy for their “L Word Island” site in Second Life, created as a marketing and community hub for the Showtime cable show.
From: artdaily Tech Museum of Innovation Announces Cash Prizes For Virtual Exhibit Designs Quote from the site - The Tech Museum of Innovation (The Tech), one of the nation’s premier science and technology museums, recently announced the convergence of technology and art in the virtual world with the launch of The Tech in Second Life®. The Tech has built a replica of its San Jose , Calif. facility in Second Life, which has been left empty to provide space for the development of new, virtual exhibits and educational programming through an exhibit design competition hosted by The Tech Museum.
From: Website of the Day: Export to World Quote from the site - We’re used to seeing the Hollywood-created worlds of The Hills and Gossip Girl translated into virtual communities in Second Life, but who says we can’t see objects from Second Life make their way into our dimension?
From: Forrester Marketing On Second Life: Think $100K Plus Per Year Quote from the site - Many firms have purchased an island in Second Life and built a venue to engage a target audience, raise funds, test products, educate users, or sell virtual or digital goods. High initial investments, short life cycles, and the need to keep a constant watch add up to tangible experiments with hard-to-measure returns.
From: Second Life Blog Calling all builders, businesspeople and budding fashionistas….educators, entertainers, and more… Quote from the site - Calling all builders, businesspeople and budding fashionistas. Attention you educators, entertainers, environmentalists and evangelists. And let’s not forget the artists and architects; the philanthropists and politicians; the sculptors, singers and just general shining stars of Second Life. You’ve got great stories and we want’ em.
From: Second Life Blog Service Quality Metrics Updated Quote from the site - The Service Quality Metrics page has been updated with stats through the end of December, 2007. Charts are directly visible on that page and downloadable versions of the detailed daily data for the full year are available in Excel, OpenDocument, and Google Doc formats.
From: Second Life Blog Updated 1.18.6 Release Candidate Viewer: Second Life 1.18.6 RC4 Available Today Quote from the site - Second Life 1.18.6 Viewer Release Candidate (RC4) is now available for download. Please go to the test software page to download and try these pre-production viewers. (Note: This is not an update to the WindLight First Look viewer.)
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