From: openPR Second Life: Strong growth at euroSLEX: trading volume surges 445% in Febrary Quote from the site - In its second full month of operation, the European Linden-Dollar trading platform “euroSLEX” sees explosive growth compared to the first month. Registered users more than tripled, from 128 in January 2008 to 405 (+216%) in February.

From: E-Commerce News Exchanging Real Money in Virtual Worlds Quote from the site - From a payment point of view, money should be fundable and extractable from the virtual world at any point in time. Credit cards are usually used to convert real money into the virtual currency in order to fund the account. In addition, increasingly more Internet wallet type of payment instruments are used to fund virtual accounts.

From: Silversprite Second Life use by UK universities and colleges Quote from the site - The compilation of the latest snapshot, looking at the use of Second Life in UK Higher and Further Education, is underway.

From: Silicon Republic UCD takes first steps as Second Life university Quote from the site - University College Dublin made history today as the first Irish university ever to hold a lecture in the online virtual world Second Life, with Professor Mary Burke from the school of information and library studies who lectured to students from the virtual James Joyce library.

From: psfk Chinese Artist Uses Second Life as Lucrative Artistic Medium Quote from the site - Cao Fei is a 29 year old artist from Guangzhou, China who is using Second Life as her artistic medium and making good money along the way. The Visions of Modernity blog profiles her newest project, RMB City, which is a cyber art island that has already fetched 100,000 Euros from a European collector for a piece of virtual real estate.

From: The Industry Standard Web 2.0: Just say yes Quote from the site - Not wild about wikis? Not big on blogs? Not sold on Second Life? IT execs who ignore Web 2.0 collaboration technologies could be hurting their company’s bottom line.

From: SL I-Reports Large Group Considers Moving to Second LIfe Quote from the site - GameTap, host of MOUL, Myst Online: URU Live, announced last month that they would discontinue operations 4/4/08. In the time the community of near 3,000 had, they have been looking for a place to keep their community together. Second Life is being considered.

From: The Social Networking Girl Some Second Life Metrics Quote from the site - Reading over a blog post related to Second Life Metrics for January and there are some interesting things:

The three most active regions by average time spent per active user in January were the Netherlands, Japan and Bermuda (basically the same list as December, though the Netherlands replaced Japan for the top spot in January).

From: Fox News FOXSexpert: Cybersex — Taking on a Whole New ‘Life’ Quote from the site - Want to be a dragon, a superhero, or a member of the opposite sex the next time you have sex? In the world of virtual intimacy, you can. Interactive modes of sex are all about fulfilling your every cyberspace desire.

From: The Industry Standard Q&A with Wagner James Au on his book “The Making of Second Life” Quote from the site - Wagner James Au began writing his New World Notes blog on the virtual world Second Life in 2003. For two years, under contract with the company, he was an embedded journalist.

From: Online Spin Bastardized Brand Virtualization Quote from the site - So you know I write about social media. There’s been quite the vibe for it out there. However, the nebulous term “virtual worlds” bothers me. It is too universal. Most likely, when I say the term, you associate it with Second Life http://www.secondlife.com–right?

From: Internet Entrepreneurship Its not a second life anymore… Quote from the site - We have all heard of different companies using Second life for Marketing and even small time people doing business in Second Life. Some people are doing so much business they don’t have to have a real life job and devote their whole time to running their business in the game.

From: Computer World Cisco to launch ASR 1000 router in Second Life demo Quote from the site - Cisco Systems Inc. will launch a new router today for processing data, voice and video that is built atop its new QuantumFlow Processor. The router is the result of five years’ research and an investment of $250 million.

From: Second Thoughts Where are the Smart People? Quote from the site - This is something I’ve thought about for ages. Pathfinder used to print that snarky Internet forums meme sometimes attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt that goes something like this, “Intelligent people talk about ideas, mediocre people talk about events, dumb people talk about people.”

From: Fabulously Free in SL Reader’s Choice - Top 5 Places for AO Related Items Quote from the site - This list comes from a poll of the readers on the best places for free or $1L AO related items. This does not include group gifts or limited time items.

From: New World Notes Wikitecture’s Progress: Dozens Use 3D Wiki To Create Architecture Plans For Nepal Health Clinic (Updated) Quote from the site - For anyone who’s consulted Wikipedia, the largest web/text-based version of wiki technology, the pitch for Wikitecture is easy to understand: a wiki, only instead of words, everyone can edit 3D objects together in Second Life, then tracking changes, reverting to previous versions, or combining several iterations together.

From: Your 2nd Place Natasha Kaplinsky rocks, it’s a shame Five News doesn’t. Quote from the site - When Natasha Kaplinsky used to do the breakfast news show on the BBC she brightened up many a grey morning. Now she has her own news show over on Channel 5, a channel that put the sleaze into British telly until they realised that people had gotten over real live boobies as a ratings winner.

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: Five News return to the dark side of second life Quote from the site - Five News has uncovered a dark side to the web. In an exclusive investigation our crime correspondent Jason Farrell infiltrated the social networking site Second Life, posing as a young girl in the virtual reality world. Watch his special report here.

From: Second Life Blog [WANTED] SL Grid Marsupials for Large Scale Unix Fun! Quote from the site - Linden Lab Production Operations has an open position for an Australia-based Production Operations Engineer. The Production Operations team is responsible for ensuring that the Second Life grid, the world’s largest collaborative real-time development environment, is up and running.

From: Massively Software update seemingly slashes Second Life simulator script speeds Quote from the site - Last July, Second Life users noticed that script performance had dropped in simulators across the board since an update of server software for the virtual world.

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