2008

One of my favorite online classroom tools is Second Life....

“. . the meaning of “sticky” has changed. It used to refer...”
— Reuben in the Millions of Us...

“This one actually happened: I was on a ferryboat out to an...”
— You know you’ve been in Second...

Locks of Love and Hair Fair 08

F.decorate(_ge('photo_notes'), F._photo_notes).notes_go_go_go(2682796037,...

inworld discussion of the book “Coming...

Steelhead Public Library Book Discussion - Coming of Age in SecondLife Sunday August 24,...

Accenture SL island and development paid...

Accenture, named by Business Week #8 in “Best Places to Launch a Career in 2007”  has been using...

“Lindens are lovely validation. Generally they’re here...”
— Pavig Lok (and I really miss...

Virtual Worlds Day Panel: Wed Aug 20

A discussion about the current state of virtual worlds and how they may evolve in the future will...

History of the Chilbo Community - Sat...

11 AM  (2pm eastern) - Walking Tour: Fleep Tuque leads a walking tour of the Chilbo community and...

Chronic and Invisible Illness Support

Fine Tuning Your Avatar

Of course they have scheduled Fine Tuning Your Avatar for 1AM my time but on Friday the 15th of Aug...

Cisco Gets Lively

OK - at least they are open to Google’s new world Lively, becuase they’ve set up a...

How to attend Cisco - and other - events...

Cisco TechChats and other Second Life based meetings and info sessions are held in a 3D virtual...

Cisco 2008-2009 TechChat Schedule for Second...

Second Life bluesman signs record deal

Virtual Transgender Suit, avatar termination...

Aug 16 1 SLT/ 10 EST - Grand Opening of...

The island was developed with a new resident orientation center, advanced tutorials, and training...

Serious Games Teaching Critical Thinking To Junior Navy...

At a Gronstedt Group Train for Success meeting, Linden VP of...

Thursday, August 14th, at 12:00pm SLT / 3PM Eastern  Orange...

Virtual Worlds and Bowling Alone: are virtual...

Your shuttle in space

Hufffman Prairie’s newest classroom and conference facility is a space station located above...

Drug Policy Alliance Network

On Thursday, August 14, at 11 a.m., Second LifeTM Time, Drug Policy Alliance Network, the United...

The Future of Second Life Mainland - Oy!

talk about throwing a hip out (via susanreynolds) Thursday...

Feathers aplenty: Pathfinder Linden (via susanreynolds)...

Leaf Shopping - No really, it’s work related! (via...

““These are heady times for anyone involved with ed....”
— Welcome to the World of Clare...

Orange Show and Tell - 3PM Today

From the Orange Island Events team: “Show & tell your fellow residents what you have...

The Photo Institute, a completely...

Second Life presents a host of challenges to photographers: there are issues involving lighting,...

Fleep posts this photo saying “An ad farm along the...

secondlife-viewer-cheatsheet in PDF format

Orange Island Bash - Get there Now &...

Orange Island throws out the welcome mat today for 10+ hours DnB & Dubstep live performance...

Get a Real Degree in a Virtual World at...

SL Shakespeare Summer Ball #3: The...

Join The Caledon Library for the grand finale of Shakespeare Summer, a Tempest ball on the enchanted...

Grand Opening at Virtual Ability Island...

Celebrate the Grand Opening with the team at Virtual Ability Island begining Saturday, August 16th...

Second Annual TSL (Teen Second Life)...

A College Fair held in the Teen Second Life grid will allow teens and colleges and universities from...

FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES: Holodeck...

Razorback Hospital - New to SL

Virtual Worlds News reports that the University of Arkansas researchers have built Razorback...

“Technologies are shaped by society and reflect society’s...”
— Can Social Network Sites...

John Chambers, CEO of Cisco held a question and answer...

Second Life: Get CLE Credit in Your...

California’s Legal Pad Blog has a pretty good grasp on Second Life. They see that it’s...

Engaging Patients in their Diabetes Care via...

“I have recently become Editor to the Virtually London (lite)...”
— About « Janey’s place in...

Second Life Support - oooh advanced sky...

Great info from the SL knowledge base about how to just poof...

Virtual Future of Education?

Rissa Maidstone invites us to an Information Week event at World2worlds today, August 4, 2008 @ 5:00...

sleepy seats at Bayjou (via susanreynolds ) Funny seat pose...

bayjou screening room (via susanreynolds ) It’s dark -...

Sittin in the Bayjou (via susanreynolds ) I try to capture...

Bayjou (via susanreynolds) The Bayjou is a spot to...

A Mixed World Experience in Lively,...

Courtesy of World2Worlds, a mixed world experience is being held in Lively, Second Life, and on the...

Memoris (via...

Second Life offers healing, therapeutic...

Superstruct: invent the future.

Rezzable Discover - just one location for the...

from RightAsRain Rimbaud comes the update about the Black...

Virtual Events Cost Microsoft 1/3 of...

Through the Filter of a Victorian Aesthetic: Why I’m...

What looks like addiction, but is not

Virtual ventures pay off | The Journal...

Virtual Worlds Indespensable . . ...

According to Linux insider: “In 20 years, there will be no debate about the utility and...

INSEAD virtual classroom

“It is extremely important for participants to know that this...”
— Miklos Sarvary is the Director...

Sheep Produce Sleek Sophisticated Out of the...

Sheep Lead Us into New Virtual Spaces

When the SL resident called Dandellion mentionsThe Game Of...

Don’t Go to REC Alone! Can’t imagine wanting to go to...

“the metaverse is “the 8th art”, allowing...”
— New World Notes: The Second...

CIOs Encouraged to Dip Into Virtual...

There’s lots of good information and many suggestions in the latestissue of CIO with an...

Extra Skin in Second Life

We all have the problem of extra skin appearing where we don’t want it  . .  but in Second...

fight Cancer via Second Life at ETD Designs (via...

Land Leveling or Rising and Falling...

As I’m looking at Second Life land, comparing what one developer has done with it vs what...

Virtual project funded exploring Education in...

Montego Beach House 1 floor, doors on each side, glass all...

Flying Love Heart I swear it’s not all about sex in...

shop.onrez.com It’s not that the item is funny....

ancient looking cobbled path bridge  available at OnRez.com

footbridge: copy permissions come with it so you can...

footbridge via onrez

Vurtual Worlds Timeline

Virtual Worlds

Our Avartars or Ourselves/

It doesn’t matter that this story from Business Week is two years old. It portrays what...

Zazzle Your Second Life: Sell Real Products...

Immersionism vs Augmentism

Gwyn’s Home » SL Psychology I used to be an “Immersionist” way before I knew what that meant....

50 Tips and Tricks to Create a Learning Space...

Santa Clara Prof finds Second Life Repugnant...

Characters from Mini Match

Mini Match Set To Occupy Multi-Player...

Mini Match, which can be previewed even before signing on by going to this website, is a...

On July 2nd The Future of Healthcare in Virtual Worlds was...

Invisible Threads“10 Simple Steps to your very own...

Corporate Training with Benefits

Scobleizer talks about Second Life corporate training with John Hartman Scoble reports that John...

I have heard zero about twinity until today, so color me...

The Virtual Doctor Will See You

The Spanish Society for Family and Community Medicine (FYC) and the Coalition for Citizens with...

Aviva Looks Outward to Virtual Worlds

I’m not going to say that the writer who scoffs at Aviva’s presence in Second Life is totally...

Virtual Greats Counts on Name Power

Virtual Greats announced that it had secured the rights for virtual goods based on Justin...

In the wayy behind the times news from virtual worlds The...

““it’s worth noting that the coverage has reached...”
— Save VMK! : VMK Blog:...

People don’t just love social networks and virtual...

Educators Praise Second Life

Second Life can be useful “We were a bit surprised. We expected that Second Life (or...

NASA Knows

In the “old news I should have been up on” department, Mark Oelhert from e-clippings...

Beyond the Pasty Boys

OK this, from the NYTimes, is a funny take on virtual selves and exercise- “WHEN Nintendo...

Are we closer to a 'Matrix'-style world? -...

No matter how hard you try, your mind can’t bend a...

Rep Kirk Asks FTC for consumer-alert...

U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk R-Ill. has asked the Federal Trade Commission to issue a consumer-alert warning...

Does Disney Get It?

“In shutting down VMK, they aren’t just closing an amusement park attraction. They are...

Mitch Kapor says the big vision of 3D is in the process of...

Leadership Honed in Multiplayer Online...

Via: Harvard Business Review - Leadership’s Online Labs “Tens of millions of people are honing...

Something Smells in Virtual Study

A Virtual World Notes story covers University of Houston’s Patrick Bordnick whose research...

Ontario Public Service Showcases in SL

Second Life users can now practice public service jobs – including role-playing as a firefighter,...

“The evolving Metaverse will include overlays of virtual...”
— Dusanwriter »...

“I was challenged to increase the scope of our vision by...”
— Calagari CEO as quoted by...

“Lately, we’ve been talking about tipping points, or tipping...”
— Dusan Writer Metaverse

AngryBeth is reporting on a giant typewriter in Second Life...

Gateway in Second Life for Fashion...

Gateway in Second Life for Fashion Industry people: see how to to gain access to invitation only...

But what did M.Linden think before being...

Mark Kingdon, new CEO @ Linden labs, known as M. Lindon is what he calls a “casual”...

Second Life | The Marketplace

I met M Linden! Well, sort of… Grid Expectations

Never an out of date picture when it includes LOLcats  even...

…within the next two months, the Lindens will supplant...

I Need More PRIMS, People!

Building, adding more and more “stuff” or more people with more stuff? We’ve all...

“ Religious-like phenomena in general are an inseparable part...”
— Soup

Is this the Second wave in Second Life? I’m thinking...

A Year Later - Gartner Rethought

A year ago Gartner Inc analysts opined that “By the end of 2011, 80 percent of active Internet...

Transcript: InformationWeek and Gartner Event...

Concerns and Costs in Second Life

in a Metanomics event  this week Mitch Wagner of InformationWeek and Gartner’s  Steve...

The first gathering of the “Being Christian in SL”...

Second Life's New CEO is Mark Kingdon of...

from Reuters it is reported: Linden Lab said on Tuesday it has selected online marketing executive...

An Apple Store on a Virtual Corner?

Virtual Worlds News is reporting on Apple’s patent application for Enhancing Online Shopping...

IBM Mysteries Map their Second Life

“For someone who wants to learn about advanced devices, a virtual world is a good...

Update Tumbler, Twitter, Typepad all...

So far so good. I’m impressed with BLOGIT, a facebook app that allowed me to update twitter...

Create Your World: The OpenSource...

The OpenSource Metaverse Project provides an open source metaverse engine along the lines of the...

Babbleswarm - Your Words Are Alive

An exhibition call Babelswarm is an interdisciplinary artwork in Second Life exploring words and...

Education - Virtual Style

“…in 2005, there were 2 universities in Second Life doing a few tests with a handful of...

EmTech Conference 2008

EMTECH08 HOT TOPICS * - Green Transportation * - The Future of Mobile Technology * - Parallel...

MIt Tech Review - One Avatar Many...

“An avatar, the image a person uses in a virtual world, is currently bound to the particular...

Bloom or Bust ?

It’s all about potential. Jim McCann owns the largest on-line florist in the world and says...