Second Life Residents Embrace SurveysXpress Business Model

Residents of Second have overwhelmingly embraced the survey concept introduced by SurveysXpress. Second Life has its own currency, the Linden Dollar, and as a means of compensation each resident who qualifies and completes their SurveysXpress survey, are paid in Linden dollars. SurveysXpress is a business and consumer survey company that has become a true innovator in leveraging their real world experience and integrating within the virtual reality world of Second Life.

Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) November 30, 2006 -- Residents of Second have overwhelmingly embraced the survey concept introduced by SurveysXpress. Second Life has its own currency, the Linden Dollar, and as a means of compensation each resident who qualifies and completes their SurveysXpress survey, are paid in Linden dollars. SurveysXpress is a business and consumer survey company that has become a true innovator in leveraging their real world experience and integrating within the virtual reality world of Second Life.
   
Ms. Maryann (Szostak) Wolf, the creative leader of SurveysXpress, stated that "Second Life's resident population is growing at an explosive rate. Since August of this year the residents have more than tripled in population to approximately 1.7MM residents." Ms. Wolf also said "Many of the worlds Major Corporations have recognized the tremendous value in the Second Life community and are committing millions of their marketing dollars to secure their position within this exploding medium." SurveysXpress also recognized the incredible opportunity that is associated with the growth of business within Second Life. Opinions and comments are always an essential aspect of valued marketing decisions and SurveysXpress provides immediate feedback.
   
TouchTrak, a southern California software and technology developer working in conjunction with SurveysXpress produced a simple yet feature rich product. Clients can enjoy immediate access to survey tracking, activity reports, and can effect real time changes as required. TouchTrak's software is a powerful web-based engine that provides self-service capabilities as well as online administrative tools which make it easy and efficient for the client to manage their survey. SurveysXpress brings a truly professional product to the residents of Second Life and those clients who wish to know the residents opinions.   
   
The Ricardo Group (Nevada Corporation) development team envisioned a business model that would explore the rapidly growing virtual reality world of Second Life. SurveysXpress was developed as that model. SurveysXpress continues to move forward within Second Life as a professional service provider and direct link for Real World businesses. SurveysXpress believes the Second Life world will continue to explode and present significant business opportunities for those who embrace the concept. As SurveysXpress evolves their vision will not be limited to the virtual world community, ultimately the technology will expand through out the Real World.

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Post-update woes

In the wake of today's update to version 1.13.0 (8), we've had either the expected woes -- or more than the expected woes, depending on your perspective. The new friends-list functions seem to be working quite well, as are the chat and IM logging enhancements, but now -- some ten hours past the scheduled update window -- there are still issues.

• Teleportation is an iffy proposition, depending on where you are, where you want to go and when you want to do it. It either works or it doesn't, and many are reporting spurious access denied messages for normally open destinations.


• Linden Dollar balances display -- or don't. It's a bit of a mood thing, apparently, though it now seems to be working more often than it isn't.


• Search - Search is up and down (as they say) 'like the Assyrian Empire'. Now it works, now it doesn't. If you're trying to get a name into an abuse report, you may be just plain out of luck for an hour or more.


• Profiles are slow, slow, quick-quick, slow. Or just not appearing.


• Some rezzed objects are not appearing for many minutes -- or over an hour in some cases.


• Actually using the new friends functions may not work - no response for some time, or at all in some cases -- this appears to be linked to the same up and down cycle of search and profiles. Database clusters are obviously having a cow (or other indictable farm animal)


• Sims falling in a heap and not restarting themselves. An overworked gridmonkey is apparently dealing with them as swiftly as possible -- Send more bananas.

So, tell me. Is this as bad as you expected for this release? Better? Or worse?

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The Scumfrog opens a virtual reality club in “Second Life”

On December 13th 2006, The Scumfrog will make a big splash in the online game/community Second Life. His contribution to this virtual world comes in the way of a 24 hour party island called Skyros

Skyros - named after the Greek island where The Scumfrog spent his childhood summer’s and started his DJ career 18 years ago – is being developed by Loudbaby.com to become a new haven for fans of Electronic Dance Music. The virtual playground will be a combination of a game, a chat room, a vehicle for streaming DJ sets and a networking site. The pride of Skyros will be the otherworldly club “Glam Scum.” Set to open in February 2007, this club is rumored to raise the bar for the new phenomenon of online clubbing through its design and audio/visual programming.

The December 13th event – celebrating the release of The Scumfrog’s new Mix CD Mega Scum 01 - is set to start at 9pm EST and will take place in Balearic flavored tents on the island. The Scumfrog will be playing live sets alongside his friends D:Fuse, Static Revenger, DJ Rap, and Richard Vission. All DJs will be present in avatar form during the event to meet, greet, and socialize.

All that’s needed to join Second Life and get to Skyros is to download the software from www.secondlife.com and register as a citizen. There is a SLURL (Second Life URL) on www.thescumfrog.com that automatically launches the software and drops your newly created persona straight into The Scumfrog’s welcome center on the Second Life main land. At the welcome center, all visitors receive a goodie bag with a Scumfrog T-shirt for their avatar, as well as a beginners manual on how to move about in the new world. Once you feel you’re comfortable enough to party, you transport yourself to Skyros…to never log off again.

Check out www.thescumfrog.com for more information, continued updates, and a free download of The Scumfrog’s upcoming single “Chicks 4 Free.”

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WOOOWWW: Doing business in Second Life

Anshe Chung's million-dollar profit in real-estate sales over 30 months wouldn't be all that impressive, really, were it not for one thing: The land she sells is made entirely of pixels.

Chung is one of some 1.7 million denizens of Second Life, a virtual 3D world that, frankly, reminds me a bit too much of "The Matrix" for my liking.

But Chung clearly has enjoyed success there -- and not just socially: After plunking down 10 bucks for membership three and a half years ago, she started an aggressive campaign of buying, dividing, and selling Second Life property (which is quite visually impressive). Her holdings, which include not only land but virtual malls, chains, and store brands, are now worth "several million Linden dollars" (the currency of Second Life), which she asserts is convertible into at least one million dollars, American. She claims that makes her the virtual world's first millionaire.

Her operations have since grown to include the development and sale of properties for large scale real world corporations, and have led to a real life "spin off" corporation called Anshe Chung Studios, which develops immersive 3D environments for applications ranging from education to business conferencing and product prototyping.

Now, this isn't the first instance of individuals reaping real monetary success from a virtual world. I remember back in the day of text-based RPGs such as Gemstone III, players were willing to fork over real-world cash for powerful weapons. That trend has continued with graphical RPGs such as Everquest and World of Warcraft.

But Second Life clearly has opened up a whole new world of financial opportunity, and it's not just entrepreneurial types like Chung who are taking note. As reported by InfoWorld Lead Analyst Jon Udell, companies like Sun have attempted to leverage the success of the virtual universe -- though with arguably limited success. (Media companies also have staked ground there.) Udell attended a "block party" IBM held there and found the experience to be less than satisfying: The venue seemed to detract from the experience more than enhance it.

And at least back in October, Udell's prediction for Second Life serving as the next big business platform was not particularly optimistic: "[If] history repeats itself, we'll find that fancy 3-D designs will ultimately prove no more compelling than fancy Web pages."

Virginia Hines, InfoWorld's VP and General Manager of InfoWorld.com, dipped her foot into the virtual waters of Second Life recently to investigate its b-to-b potential, as well as its applicability to a future version of InfoWorld IT Exec-Connect. Though she was impressed by the system's underlying technologies, deeming Second Life "a fascinating experiment and laboratory for all the social sciences," she came away with some healthy skepticism about the medium's business potential.

Among other things, she noted that it's not sufficiently usable and navigable to attract and retain new users. Moreover, the current residents of the world are more focused on playing than working, which means that "any effort to use Second Life for B2B marketing purposes will probably require enticing a new demographic into the community, as opposed to attracting current members."

Finally, she said that "many of the current corporate ventures in Second Life are hard to locate, fail to attract traffic, and offer little user value. Without a more grounded value proposition, the concept of being in Second Life just to 'establish a presence' doesn't seem very fruitful."

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AWESOME: NBC Universal in Second Life :-)

Tonight at 8:55pm EST (5:55pm SLT) NBC Universal will be hosting a virtual Christmas Tree Lighting in Second Life to go hand-in-hand with the lighting of the RL tree in Rockefeller Center. You can attend the event by arriving arriving at any of the 19 sims with the NBC name (NBC 1-19.)

The NBC Universal Headquarters build where the event will be hosted was a collaborative effort between Aimee Weber Studio as the in-world lead (this blogger's company) and the famed Bedazzle Studio. Visitors will be treated with Christmas presents under each tree (a total of nine) and a free pair of ice skates by Moopf which visitors can use to show their stuff on the virtual ice skating rink The sim also includes a lovely coffee shop and elevator rides to the posh Peacock Room high atop the central building. Electric Sheep will be handling streaming services including live musical entertainment and a simulcast on the NBC website.

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NBC to Make Virtual Debut in Second Life Tonight!

Will Amy Weber cross over into mainstream celebrity when NBC makes its virtual debut on Second Life tonight?

The powerhouse creative force Aimee Weber, designer of the popular *PREEN* clothing line and project manager for the creation of NBC's virtual presence in SL, sat with SMF in her Midnight City skybox, her "secret lair," to talk about the groundbreaking project.

The festivities will kick off at 8 pm on Wednesday, November 29 in Second Life, when the virtual tree in front of the virtual building inspired by 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan will be triumphantly lit to cap off NBC's opening of roughly 20 sims to the public, joining Reuters, the Huffington Post and other major media in SL. This is a significant event, and not just because free ice skates will be available and free gifts will be under the tree.

Weber, who collaborated with Electric Sheep and Bedazzle on the project, gazed through silver shades at the starlit SL rain as we chatted on the eve of her major accomplishment. Her Blue Morpho butterfly wings opened and closed.

"I'm tired," she said, "and I can't really rest."

When asked what the user-created virtual world SL means for artists and society, Weber was ebullient. The idea that many of society's most creative members should scratch out a living at mind-numbing work is well entrenched in real life, but in Second Life, that condition has been removed, and the only inherent limitation on an "avatar" is the ability to make things happen.

"I think a whole new medium is opening up for artists," Weber said. "A whole new market. So I think you will see this stuff get huge."

When we finished with the interview she told me to walk off the edge of the skybox and fall until I hit the Midnight City streets below. As my body fell through the sky, stars streaked the darkness and the sensation was palpable in my stomach. I fell to the pavement with a thud to find cabs and graffiti and urban windows lit from within slate gray buildings. I wandered to a lonely street and as I drifted under a streetlamp wondered if anyone was watching me from the hidden recesses of this virtual world. You can freefall through space and land safely only to find yourself worrying about a virtual violator. I looked around for a pose ball scripted for kickboxing as I ambled to a dark, deserted bridge. Like Dorothy clicking her ruby slippers, I teleported myself instantly back to the safety of Knysna.

SMF would like to take this opportunity to forge a virtual bond with NBC by inviting Keith Olbermann to my Knysna beach hut for an interview about the implications of major media in SL (and he's got plenty to say about RL, too!) I can hardly wait to see what his avatar will look like.

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First Reuters Newsmaker Interview

The last fifteen minutes prior to the arrival of Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo America, is littered with chatter -- talk about cellphones, interference from Blackberries, and generally all the usual teething problems that you'd expect of any voice-based interview in SL. Reggie's avatar is sitting there, logged in, but Reggie himself has not yet arrived. The audience has been chatty and calm, many of whom had been camped out for more than an hour to ensure their seat at the event.

Then the stream beeps and goes quiet, as he enters, presumably to not bore us with the necessary technical talk and social lubricant as everyone gets ready. Very quickly, at only 2 minutes past the hour (a mere four minutes after Reggie arrives) he and Adam are sitting and talking smoothly.

Adam is perceptive -- he's asking the sorts of questions people seem to be interested in hearing the answers to. Reggie is pretty smooth, answering easily and comfortable with his material. Reggie would like us not to all hack into our Wiimotes for Second Life though :)

Reggie believes that the Wii is quite capable (from a sheer performance perspective) of handling MMOs, and that the Wiimote would be well adaptable to the three dimensional spaces of MMOs. No first-party development of MMOs is planned, but some third-party MMO pre-development may be in the works.

After a couple questions from the audience, Adam and Reggie wrapped things up quite smoothly, and departed. At the end a number of insults began to fly among the audience, but only after the principals of the event had been gone for a minute or two.

All in all a smooth and undisrupted event handled very professionally, and the next one will likely go even more smoothly, during the setup phase, given the quick, seat-of-the-pants experience gained today.

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Toy LaFollette returns to Second Life

Filed under: Odds and Ends

Toy LaFollette, one of Second Life's most well-known Live Helpers has returned to Second Life. Toy (born Feb 2004) was particularly known for her cheerful disposition, compendious knowledge of all things SL, and her diligence and long hours in Live Help. She disappeared from Second Life suddenly on the 13th of May (2006), when RL concerns and circumstances forced her sudden and unannounced absence. Her friends feared the worst.

During her absence, her account lapsed, her objects vanished from the world, her friends worried, but her island - which had been paid in advance some time ago - remained, littered by the prims of itinerant experimenters, and with only perhaps a third of the build remaining. To stand there, as I did last week, was like looking at Chuck Jones' interpretation of purgatory, stark, fragmented, sad, lonely and alien.

Two days ago, Toy returned - as Najmah Handayani, as she was unable to access her regular account. Some communications with Customer Service, and she will be able to return as Toy LaFollette once the matter of some considerable sum in back-tier payments is resolved.

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Sex, Money and Fame in SL

Filed under: Odds and Ends

That grabbed your attention, didn't it? Unfortunately, it's not mine -- the title belongs to the blog of Eureka Dejavu, who writes about just those things in her ongoing investigation into the sociological issues of SL. Eureka is the nom de virtual of Rita J. King, an investigative photojournalist who has written for such publications as the New York Times and the Village Voice.

In a recent article written for the Huffington Post, Eureka interviews an avatar concerning definitions of fidelity and what's considered 'okay' sexually, when one has a RL marriage. I'm looking forward to reading more by Eureka, and welcome your comments on these issues as well!

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Anshe Chung: Millionaire

Filed under: Linden Dollars, Business, Odds and Ends, Making Money

The Second Life Herald reports that love-her-or-hate-her icon Anshe Chung is poised to announce that she has made a million dollars in SL since her business's inception roughly two and a half years ago.

Perhaps Saturday's announcement will make clear whether or not her current bank balance is actually at a million dollars or (more likely) that it's an aggregated total over the two and a half years. [SNARK ALERT] Wow, this is a huge relief for me; Anshe is finally big enough for me to interview for SLI.

At this point, is it even possible for anyone to unseat her as reigning queen of virtual estate? Has she just gotten too big to take on? Is it even perceived as necessary? Drop your comments!

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Last chance to get Moopf's Steamer Icicles

Filed under: Shopping

As it is Saturday, this is your last chance to get these amazing Steamer Icicles, the Steampunk ice skates made by Moopf Murray as part of his limited edition season. Sometime after midday today, the vendors will be updated with the next in the range of skates, and the Steamers will be gone.

I love all the skates Moopf has made -- I've seen the next ones and I love them too -- but the Steamers are fantastic. They're shown here with shiny turned on, as I forgot to do that with the previous picture. Get some while you still can.

For those who haven't read my previous pieces, Moopf is selling special editions of his famous ice skates, a different version each week. In order to be able to buy a special pair at the end of the eight weeks, you have to have purchased six of the eight special pairs. The new skates will be available soon, from the vendors all over SL, including Nemesis. I have been wearing mine more or less continuously, skating around SL. I've only been asked once or twice why my trousers are on fire....

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Secrets of Second Life #11

Watch Episode #11 Video iPod Version - Check out the Best of Show Winner of the Second Annual Movie Trailer Contest held by Linden Labs. It’s called Second Life: Get One by Silver and Goldie Productions - visit www.secretsofsecondlife.com - Second Life Podcast - frank@fmstudio.com - iPod Video Show Link: Silver and Goldie / LTS Video

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Detroit’s Metro Times

Metro Times in Detroit this week featured Secrets of Second Life in their cover story “Does Your Life Suck?“

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Secrets of Second Life #10

Watch Episode #10
Video iPod Version - Setting your start location - visit www.secretsofsecondlife.com - Second Life Podcast - frank@fmstudio.com - iPod Video

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Secrets of Second Life Podcast #9

Watch Episode #9
Video iPod Version - Checking your stats and controlling the camera for snapshots - visit www.secretsofsecondlife.com - Second Life Podcast - frank@fmstudio.com - iPod Video

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Secrets Article in Herald

Very cool article in today’s Press Herald on Secrets of Second Life - (text)

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Secrets of Second Life featured on SecondLife.com

A big thanks to Linden Labs for now featuring Secrets of Second Life on the SecondLife.com media page, very exciting and thanks for the support! And we’re in great company, with some fantastic podcasts (which you need to check out) Second Cast (my fav), Metaverse Sessions and The Goods.

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Podcast Awards

Two podcast shows I produce, Rumor Girls (comedy) and Media Artist Secrets (business), have been nominated for Podcast Awards. And you can vote for them! Please visit:
http://www.podcastawards.com/
Please vote for them both and support our shows, you can vote once every 24 hours until August 11th..thanks so much!
Franklin

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Yahoo Podcasts

A big thanks to Yahoo Podcasts for featuring the Secrets of Second Life Podcast on the front page this week!

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Secrets of Second Life Podcast #8

Watch Episode #8
Video iPod Version - A brief look at the amazing sim/event Relay for Life, plus a visit to Snapzilla and Second Life Insider - visit www.secretsofsecondlife.com - Second Life Podcast - frank@fmstudio.com - iPod Video
Find about more about Relay for Life

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Second Life : The Book - Out now!

O’Reilly has finally released its book on Second Life, available for pre-order now via Amazon called ‘Second Life : The Official Guide’. I had heard about a Second Life Hacks book from O’Reilly in the works a while ago. Someone in world had even gone to the trouble of mocking up a book cover ages ago [...]

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Phone Shop Offers Free Phones on Second Life

The online mobile phone retailer, YouNeverCall, has ventured into a new dimension of cell phones - the virtual one. The resident-owned Second Life population can now get a virtual - and functional - cell phone, for free.

"At YouNeverCall, we have decided to venture beyond our traditional customer base," states Sam Michelson, CEO of YouNeverCall, "and Second Life offers us more than a 1.5 million potential new customers. The virtual cell phones we are offering on Second Life are more than just a fun accessory. The cell phones let Second Life residents send and receive text messages, as well as hold the virtual phone to their ear. They ring like real cell phones and, best of all, require no special download. YouNeverCall's Second Life cell phones also offer valuable information like the exchange rate of the Linden dollar (Second Life currency) to US dollar, and actual US stock quotes. The YouNeverCall virtual kiosk in Second Life is conveniently located in the Alston region at coordinates 95, 58, 22, right near a Lindex ATM."

While many things in Second Life are available for a fee, the phones at the YouNeverCall kiosk are completely free. To get to the kiosk you can enter the coordinates on the Second Life map or just teleport yourself directly there by going to http://slurl.com/secondlife/Alston/95/58/22.

Even if you've never been to Second Life, this link will direct you to sign up for your own, free Second Life persona, so you can experience what 1.5 million others have already discovered. The Second Life 3D virtual world, a huge digital country filled with people, is a land of opportunity, and not just virtual. The YouNeverCall cell phones are a neat accessory that allow for real communication with others in the virtual world, and are powered by the real YouNeverCall network.

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Teacher makes a million in Second Life

Teacher makes a million in Second Life A Chinese teacher has become the first real-life millionaire to make her fortune from virtual business in an online world, a report says. Ailin Graef, known to residents of online community Second Life as Anshe Chung, turned her original investment of $9.95 in virtual real estate into more than $1 million, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Tuesday. Graef, who spun her online business into a Wuhan, China, based real-world enterprise called Anshe Chung Studios, made her fortune buying and selling plots of virtual land -- comprised of 3D simulations hosted on 550 networked computers -- that participants in the virtual environment shell out between $100 and $1,000 to own. Much like real-world property developers, Graef uses her Anshe Chung avatar to buy large blocks of virtual land and then improves and subdivides the plots that she then resells or rents. United Press International - 5 minutes ago Ailin Graef, known to residents of online community Second Life as Anshe Chung, turned her original investment of $9.95 in virtual real estate into more than ...

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Second Life Game Gets Virtual Phones

Second Life Game Gets Virtual Phones InformationWeek, NY - 7 minutes ago ... virtual. YouNeverCall, an online mobile phone store, is making free virtual cell phones available to Second Life residents. "The ...

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Live life second time

Live life second time Economic Times, India - Nov 25, 2006 The population of those in Second Life is expected to hit two million by the end of this year. ... He spends his day covering all about ‘Second Life’ there. ...

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Second Life Mints First Millionaire

The Age

Second Life Mints First Millionaire TheStreet.com - 3 hours ago The first in-world millionaire has emerged in Second Life, but not without criticism from residents that some business owners have been given an unfair ... Second Life's Anshe Chung makes a million San Francisco Chronicle Second Life’s First Millionaire Red Herring Make a million in Second Life Web User MMORPG blog - Kotaku.com all 31 news articles

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Second Life's Anshe Chung makes a million - San Francisco Chronicle

Sydney Morning Herald

Second Life's Anshe Chung makes a million San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 4 hours ago Anshe Chung, a seemingly Donald Trump-like character in the online world Second Life who develops and sells virtual real estate (but with much better hair ... Second Life Mints First Millionaire TheStreet.com Second Life’s First Millionaire Red Herring Make a million in Second Life Web User MMORPG blog - Kotaku.com all 31 news articles

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Old Medium Meets New in Second Life

Old Medium Meets New in Second Life Adrants, MA - 5 hours ago ... in the midst of an era-shifting marketing mashup when one of the oldest media out there, flip books, gets into bed with over-hyped medium du jour Second Life. ... Flip Books Get a Second Life Yahoo! News (press release) Flip Books Get a Second Life PR Newswire (press release) all 5 news articles

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Flip Books Get a Second Life

A virtual Museum of Flip Animation dedicated to pre-cinema motion picture techniques and devices has opened in the online world of Second Life. Appropriately, the museum was created by Flippies Custom Flip Books, the company that has recently given flip books a real-world second life as a modern day promotional marketing tool.

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Why We Need an Open Source Second Life

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last six months, you will have noticed that the virtual world Second Life is much in the news . According to its home page, there are currently around 1,700,000 residents, who are spending $600,000 – that's real, not virtual, money – in the world each day. These figures are a little deceptive – there are typically only 10,000 to 15,000

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Opinion: 'Bot Life In Second Life'

Welcome to 'Blogged Out', the regular news report that looks at the world of developer blogging and the conversations being had with the community at large. This week: Raph Koster and Prokofy Neva, round two. Bot Life Although the topic is now a couple of weeks old, I wanted to highlight a debate that took place on Raph 'Theory Of Fun' Koster's blog concerning the recent cloning exploits in

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Flip Books Get a Second Life

A virtual Museum of Flip Animation dedicated to pre-cinema motion picture techniques and devices has opened in the online world of Second Life.

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Second Life Artists Conversation

Second Life Artists Conversation Cool Hunting, NY - 14 hours ago ... gallery, Marisa Olson from Rhizome will moderate a conversation with James Deavin and Eva and Franco Mattes about their documentary art work from Second Life. ...

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Popular Online Cell Phone Store 'YouNeverCall' Offers Virtual Cell Phones in Second Life®

YouNeverCall, the popular online cell phone store, (see: http://www.younevercall.com) has ventured into a new dimension of cell phones - the virtual one. The resident-owned Second Life population can now get a virtual - and functional - cell phone, for free. (PRWeb Nov 28, 2006) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/U3VtbS1IYWxmLUVtcHQtSW5zZS1NYWduLVplcm8=

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Real-world programmer turns real estate agent in Second Life

Real-world programmer turns real estate agent in Second Life Computerworld Australia, Australia - 18 hours ago ... 5 work regime of the real world? West Australian IT student Adam Frisby found his escape in the virtual economy of Second Life. ...

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Sex, Fame and Money in Second Life: Week 2

Huffington Post

Sex, Fame and Money in Second Life: Week 2 Huffington Post, NY - 19 hours ago This week, I accidentally teleported myself into a Second Life bedroom and was promptly spotted by two unsuspecting lovers. But ...

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Second Life Business Now Worth $1 Million

Unlike the unfortunate Mr. Wang, discussed this past weekend, the million dollars Anshe Chung has minted selling data in Second Life is unlikely to get her in trouble with the law. Terra Nova has an interview with the tag-teamed Avatar, discussing what being the first online world Millionaire means. There's also some fierce debate in the comments about whether it's an accurate count, and what

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AKQA to open storefront on Second Life - BtoB Magazine

AKQA to open storefront on Second Life BtoB Magazine, NY - Nov 27, 2006 San Francisco—Online agency AKQA plans to open a virtual office on Second Life, an online community that lets users create their own characters and society. ...

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Woman receives life-threatening injuries from second story fall

A Jacksonville woman is fighting for her life after what police said appears to have been an accidental fall from the second story of a building early Monday.

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Get a Life: Enterprises Eye Potential For Second Life

Get a Life: Enterprises Eye Potential For Second Life IT Management, CT - Nov 27, 2006 ... he's doing it to parody the suddenly trendy idea of companies hosting business events within the confines of such virtual worlds as WoW and Second Life (SL). ...

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Second Life's virtual world big and growing

SAN FRANCISCO — If the virtual world of Second Life has a Mount Olympus, the place where gods flex their power and influence, it’s here at parent company Linden Lab.

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A Warholian take on Second Life

GQ	A Warholian take on Second Life GQ - Nov 26, 2006 ... commercial hype—sponsored "concerts," storefronts from brands like Nissan, Sony, and American Apparel—the geeky online universe of Second Life is starting ...

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Old racer to have a second life

Old racer to have a second life Florida Times-Union, FL - Nov 24, 2006 By DAN SCANLAN , Staff writer. It spent its youth in the Roaring '20s, chewing up the sands of Jacksonville and Ponte Vedra beaches ...

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