Of course some of the big news recently has been the big price drop for new islands $1000 from $1675. Avatars everywhere are either mad or happy, mad that the islands they bought at 1675 or now only worth 1000, or happy that they are only 1000. Some links, LL Slashes Land Prices — Landowners Scream In Pain, Estate Owners Lose BIG BUCKS! OMG!!! Pffft., Linden Land Bolshevism, Linden to increase land supply, drop prices, Playing with fire, and many others.

From: Second Life Blog Quarterly Land Supply and Island Pricing Update Quote from the site - As with my previous quarterly posts, here is an update on land, including supply, average prices, abandoned/defunct land and pricing information relevant to Q2 of 2008.

From: collapsing geography connections and networking Quote from the site - I was chatting with Pathfinder at the Virtual Worlds Conference 08 in New York and we realized that there were two particularly long chains of personal connections that were relevant to the event and Second Life. The first was the State of Play conference, the second a video I had just been emailed showing Second Life being used for public diplomacy in Doha, Qatar.

From: ScienceRoll Health News in Second Life: More and More Tools Quote from the site - In Second Life, the virtual world, there are so many tools in several aspects of medicine. Here I present just a few examples…

From: Full Comment Robert Bloomfield on Second Life: The first entrepreneurial virtual world Quote from the site - The press has not been kind to Second Life, the virtual world developed by San Francisco-based Linden Lab.

From: Second Life Blog ‘Inside the Lab’ podcast with the WindLight Team! Quote from the site - The third edition of our ‘Inside the Lab’ podcast series is now available!

From: user experience network “Second Life” - Michigan ASIS&T Spring meeting Quote from the site - Please join us for an interesting presentation, refreshments and a walk in the gardens.

From: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse Times UK Reports (barely) on VW2008 Quote from the site - The Times UK reports, in a meandering sort of way, about VW2008, coming to the conclusion that “Companies are increasingly turning to virtual worlds not just for brand building, but also to hold meetings and train staff.”

From: PRNewswire The Benelux Career Fair of ‘Working Worlds’ in Second Life Quote from the site - Encouraged by the tremendous success of the first virtual Career Fair held in Luxembourg at the end of last year, the Luxembourg based company Gax Technologies is organising a second recruiting event. On May 29 the exhibition ‘Working Worlds’ opens its doors again on Second Life, this time to all three Benelux countries.

From: TTG Live Kuoni builds island in Second Life Quote from the site - Kuoni has created an island in the virtual world of Second Life, giving visitors a travel book to chart their trips.

From: nmc Second Life Simulcasts from UD: Global Agenda and International Polar Year Quote from the site - International experts on climate change have concluded with near certainty that climate changes could bring disastrous consequences within the next century, unless the nations of the world reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide into the earth’s atmosphere.

From: SLWTF Driven to distraction Quote from the site - Nissan has built some islands in Second Life with the intention of selling you Altimas. Whether or not these islands will you the trick, you have to give them an A for effort.

From: New World Notes New World Newsfeed: Second Life On “The Daily Show” Quote from the site - Jon Stewart’s cadre unleashed a barrage of mockery over last week’s Congressional hearing on yesterday’s show, and the segment represents a larger cultural milestone than the actual hearing.

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