Mar 3
Second Life News for March 3, 2008
From: MindBlizzard blog Autism in Second Life Quote from the site - Second Life can be a place to meet and greet, and because of the anonimity an NVE offers hope for many who have social disabilities. Here’s a YouTube movie about Autism in Second Life…
From: Human Resources Second Life: Want a Second Chance to Get a Life? Quote from the site - Although Second Life, a 3D virtual world, has been around since 2003, its fame multiplied in the past few months after the announcement that virtual real-estate developer Anshe Chung made a million dollars buying and selling real estate in the virtual world, Second Life.
From: New, Improved Copybot Demonstrated Quote from the site - In partnership with d3adlyc0d3c, last week I began conducting an investigation into reports of rampant content theft across Second Life. Some of these claims included allegations that Copybot was being used- allegations that many of us did not believe initially.
From: Flexible Learning Wandering through Second Life student work Quote from the site - I took some time today to take a pre-look at the work the students have been doing on the Second Life island. Impressive, very impressive, albeit not quite functional (many of them) and thus the anticipation is growing to see on Monday the 10th what they have come up with.
From: Lauren Live Moving First/Second/Third Life Quote from the site - Well, where have I been you ask? Or at least I hope you are thinking about me. I do think about you. This past week has been a move in FirstLife which got me wondering about moving in SecondLife and ThirdLife.
From: Massively History of Earth in Second Life Quote from the site - Thanks to my friend Graham I found out about an exhibit covering the history of the Earth, both geological and biological in Second Life, so I went to visit it yesterday. Pictured above is part of the display for my favourite organisms of all time: the weird and wonderful animals from the Burgess Shale and the Cambrian Explosion.
From: Your 2nd Place Technical Museum of Innovation Within Second Life Quote from the site - I stopped in at the Technical Museum of Innovation in Second Life to take a virtual tour - another will be available on the 11th - and despite my freezing client, I found it very fun and interesting to look at.
From: Rik Riel The Travails of Being a Second Life Tourguide Quote from the site - This weekend I got a chance to visit with Maria, one of my best friends who lives in Amsterdam. We were chatting about what we’ve been up to for the past year or so since we’ve seen each other, and she asks about Second Life.
From: SL I-Reports Content Theft in Second Life Quote from the site - As anyone who inhabits Second Life knows, the virtual world has its own fast growing economy. Without some sort of infrastructure regulating the way businesses are being run, Second Life will become a desert that people will not bother to come into. The majority of people that join Second Life like to make the most of their appearance.
From: Internet Entrepreneurship Second Life: So Whats Next? Quote from the site - Second life. What is this? The first time I heard of this Second Life, that was my initial reaction. Actually, the first time I heard of it was on a television show in which the shows sort of nerdy and quirky character was talking about his second life character.
From: Financial Times A Second Life for classrooms with vision Quote from the site - For a brief period last year, Miklos Sarvary’s marketing class at Insead, in Fontainebleau, France, played host to foxes and other creatures as the human students took a back seat.
From: Financial Times Students take a leap into the virtual world Quote from the site - Business school students may find it cool to float around Second Life but how do older faculty get on with this virtual world? And does this kind of immersive experience make any real contribution to instilling the leadership skills that schools are aiming to develop on MBA programmes?
From: Financial Times From first steps to flight - an avatar’s journey Quote from the site - The best way to find out what business schools are really up to in the virtual world of Second Life is to create an avatar and explore for oneself. The FT’s firewall presents probably insurmountable obstacles to achieving this in the office, so I downloaded the software to my Apple at home.
From: Unable To Connect - SuezanneC Baskerville Second Life Community Entry Points Quote from the site - Second Life has a number of places that new users can sign up with that start the user out at different places in Second Life, places operated by various third party in partnership with Linden Lab, with the different places having different styles according to the tastes of the Second Life community partner.
From: pbossut’s idle loop Segalen - A keyboard free Second Life Quote from the site - So, since this fateful day of January 15th (see OSAF 2.0 and me), I’m now a full time employee of KEI (Kapor Enterprises, Inc.) and working on a project code named Segalen (picking its name from Victor Segalen for the curious) in Mitch Kapor’s “incubator”.
From: 2nd Sex Second Life 2.0 is here, Part I: A sense of permenant exuberance Quote from the site - “The stage is false, the feelings on it are real.”
From: The Boston Globe MD to fight stress in Second Life Quote from the site - In another sign that Second Life is beginning to resemble the first, doctors are stepping into the virtual world to reach patients they might otherwise miss.
From: The Morning Sun Teens and Technology Quote from the site - This year, we celebrate the 15-year anniversary of the first Web browser. Since then, the development of electronic communication has come rapid-fire: instant messaging, video streaming, podcasting.
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