The Story of My “Second Life”

You know things are getting tough out there when coupon clipping comes to virtual worlds! Yes, everyone is belt-tightening these days, even avatars are cutting back. So, I was thrilled to find The MetaSaver, a small (but growing) collection of coupons on cool items for you and your organization. Flip through the book below or [...]

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This won’t be new to you if you read the Official Second Life Blog but for those who do not, this terrific tutorial presented by Torley Linden is one-stop shopping for all your photo snapping skill needs. It is exhaustive and yet easy to read. Snapshots are perhaps THE BEST way (in my opinion) to [...]

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Thanks to an email tip from my landlord Fleet Goldenberg this morning, I stopped over toe SecondLifeGrid.net to see what Linden Lab is up to. At first I was confused, but it’s obvious now that SecondLifeGrid.net is a essentially clearinghouse dedicated to helping organizations, public agencies, educational institutions, groups (anyone really) get started with a [...]

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Came across this handy item today on another blog (KellyKate?) and thought it deserved linking on the sidebar, so here it is: Second Life Keyboard Shortcuts (.pdf) Thanks to the good folks over at Hippasus, a consultancy in Williamstown, MA for this resource. -kj-

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Decka Mah shares this blog that helps explain the developing link between Google SketchUp and Second Life. If you’ve never used SketchUp, it’s definitely worth a look, as it gives you a (reasonably) user friendly interface with which to create and manipulate 3D objects. Here’s an example: That’s a SketchUp rendering on the left , [...]

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Voice chat is coming to Second Life this month, and the beta is already underway. I have mixed feelings about using voice with strangers in SL, but have been using Skype quite a lot with friends while in world. I came across Second Talk and thought I would give it a try. You can get [...]

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Saw a link posted on the SLED list that I thought was intriguing … Kevin Sherman was looking for Second Life statistics and Jim Giles pointed him to this data set on the IBM Many Eyes site (still in alpha). While exploring, I found some additional visualizations. As you can see in the chart below, [...]

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One of the challenges of conducting research in SL, I’ve found, is that things come at you FAST. You can start a session with a particular task in mind and in a matter of minutes end up in another corner of the metaverse involved in a discussion with some far-out avatar or experiencing some amazing [...]

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Interesting article here on Technology Review about a new product from Comverse that allows people to communicate directly with people in Second Life via text messaging. I’ve not seen the software personally, and though it sounds a bit primitive, it’s a great illustration of the future potential convergence of two burgeoning trends – digital handsets [...]

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