Just cruising around tonight and noticed a sim called Microsoft, and I don’t remember off the top of my head if I had ever read about Microsoft having an Island anywhere, so I thought I would check it out. It is near the MillionsofUs sims, Texas Instruments, Intel, some programmer coves, the Pontiac sims and the GossipGirl sims, which is where I got started tonight, don’t ask.

Anyway, this Island was nothing special, had the usual cool places to sit around and talk, a sandbox, which I did see some builders in, talked to Wisdom Streeter, who actually works for Microsoft and he said they have meetings on Saturdays, join the .NET Developers group inworld to get the updates. This place at the moment looks more like a fancy meeting area, but the notecard does say it’s still under construction.

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What: SL-ideas 1st virtual Meetup

When: Oct 2, 2007 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (Tuesday)

Where: Pinastri Second Life

Tags: Education Jim Gustafson learning Pinastri Second Life

Description: If you talk about something, you can be educated by that (usually), but to do it gives you real success. So we want to do open round table events (most of them open to the public) to cover several topics in business and web-3D topics. We offer this from our group but also invite other people to do it with us together.

Wenn man ueber etwas redet, bildet das idR., aber machen fuehrt weiter. Wir wollen daher zukuenftig in Second Life meistens offene Round Table (und manchmal mehr) zu unterschiedlichen Business und web3D Themenfeldern durchfuehren. Aus unserer Gruppe heraus, mit und fuer andere.

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Watch a live video stream from a panel at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Developing for Second Life.

When: Tuesday, August 14th @ 9:30AM ET/6:30AM PT

Where: OnRez Event Center in Second Life.

Speakers: Jim Purbrick, Tim Guest, Chris Carella

Description: No one can still tell you what the real business plan is for Second Life but, if you want influence in the virtual business scene, you have to be there! And a real industry of developing content for these clients has grown up around the phenomenon - all is explained by a panel chaired by Ricard Gras, with Tim Guest (author of Second Life book), CTO Jim Purbrick of Second Life, and Chris Carella.

Details about the panel found here. Via Counting Sheep.

Second Life URL.

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