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January 2009
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Update Linden Lab is still going through some real-world growing pains. |
Entrepreneur
March 2007
Sara Wilson |
Unreal World The creator of today's hottest virtual land offers a glimpse into his reality. |
CRM
March 1, 2007
Jessica Sebor |
Material Living in a Virtual World Companies are looking to take a piece of Second Life's digital pie because of its explosive membership, but will this move prove virtually insignificant? |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2006
Steve Hamm |
Palmisano Gets A Second Life IBM is embracing the virtual world of avatars - and other big companies are close behind. |
Inc.
February 2007
Michael Fitzgerald |
Does Your Business Need a Second Life? Why are companies like Toyota and Dell and Starwood Hotels getting immersed in Second Life. |
Reason
June 2008
Wagner James Au |
Virtually Free The garish, skyscraper-sized billboards that subscribers to Second Life had learned to tolerate as part of their three-dimensional landscape are no more. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2010
Jonathan Allen |
9 Reasons Why it Might Be Time For Marketers to Value Virtual Goods Convergence of web, mobile and TV may create stronger emotional connections between audiences. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
IBM's Mid-"Life" Crisis The company's move into the virtual reality of "Second Life" is an innovative one. |
Wired
July 24, 2007
Frank Rose |
How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life More and more people are leaving this virtual world, leaving advertisers and big name companies behind. |
InternetNews
October 9, 2006
David Needle |
Is Sun's News For Real? Sun is holding a press conference from within Second Life, a virtual online world. |
InternetNews
October 12, 2007
Susan Kuchinskas |
Hey IT, Welcome to the Bverse IBM and Linden Labs, creator of Second Life, announced an initiative to create open standards and interoperability allowing people to move their avatars and virtual goods from one world to another. |
CFO
October 1, 2007
Alan Rappeport |
Second Life's John Zdanowski The CFO of Second Life explains what the online virtual world is all about, and how his real-world company measures and rewards employee performance with the Love Machine. |
Insurance & Technology
February 1, 2007
Katherine Burger |
The Buzz About Linden Lab's Second Life Raises Possibilities for Insurance Companies The media buzz about Linden Lab's Second Life online digital world raises commerce and customer possibilities for insurance companies and other financial institutions. |
InternetNews
October 11, 2006
David Needle |
Sun Finds a Home in Second Life Sun Microsystems plans to invest in virtual world pavilion as a site for developers. |
PC World
May 21, 2007
Dan Tynan |
Traveling the Web's Third Dimension My avatar, my self: Second Life shows us the future of the 3D Web. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
My Virtual Life A journey into a place in cyberspace where thousands of people have imaginary lives. Some even make a good living. Big advertisers are taking notice. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Rachel Courtland |
Virtual Currency Gets Real Will Facebook Credits and other social scrip challenge government-backed currencies? |
Knowledge@Wharton
September 24, 2003 |
In Norrath, Tattoine and Rubi-ka, Just What Are Your Legal Rights? Even though virtual worlds are nothing more than code residing in banks of computers, what goes on in them poses challenges to our notions about the nature of property, the legal rights of players in virtual worlds and even the presumed boundary between the real and the imagined worlds. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2007
Jill Jusko |
Virtually Everywhere: UGS In Second Life UGS launches presence on Second Life virtual world. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2009
John K. Waters |
A 'Second Life' For Educators Lauded as a learning tool, the popular virtual world is now being used by teachers for their own enrichment, providing them with a wealth of opportunities for collaboration, peer interaction, and sharing of resources. |
Fast Company
October 2008
Arianne Cohen |
The Second Life of Second Life Joni West's firm, This Second Marketing, has become a leader in shepherding name-brand companies back to the virtual world. |
PC World
January 29, 2007
Julian Dibbel |
Virtual Gold Could Draw Real Taxes Congress is investigating whether the IRS should tax online game loot. |
Wall Street & Technology
December 17, 2007
Melanie Rodier |
Saxo Bank CEO Says Second Life is Good for Communications and Fun Although it is still too early to tell how companies ultimately will leverage Second Life to gain strategic business advantage, the financial services industry continues to expand in the virtual world as it grows more and more popular. |
Inc.
February 2007
Michael Fitzgerald |
My Second Life Life For all its irritating clunkiness, Second Life is intriguing. |
PC World
October 2, 2006
Mark Wallace |
The Future of You Think the Net has changed your life? Wait until it becomes an immersive 3D environment. |
InternetNews
January 8, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
SecondLife Goes Open Source (Sort of) Second Life, which enables users to participate in a virtual world through the use of avatars, is now providing a version of its viewer application under the GPL version 2 license. |
Entrepreneur
November 2007
Heather Clancy |
Starting Your Business' Second Life Need to breathe some life into your business? Going virtual can open up a whole new world. |
The Motley Fool
October 16, 2006
Tim Beyers |
IRS to Tax Your Second Life? Congressional economists are beginning to weigh the question of how to tax digital assets amassed in multiplayer online games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life. How can this benefit your portfolio? |
InternetNews
April 3, 2008 |
IBM Readies Second Life For Enterprise IBM said on Wednesday it would become the first company to host private regions of the virtual world Second Life on its own computer servers. |
Entrepreneur
February 2007
Gwen Moran |
Hot New Market: Online Worlds Should you take your business to the virtual world? |
Insurance & Technology
April 4, 2007
Nathan Conz |
Breaking New Ground Unitrin Direct heads into uncharted territory by establishing a virtual presence in Second Life to court Web-savvy consumers. The move makes the carrier the first auto insurance company to own a building in the Second Life realm. |
InternetNews
April 2, 2008 |
Avatars at House Hearing on Virtual World Second Life and censorship discussed on Capitol Hill. |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
SINA's Virtual Reality China's dot-com darling is reportedly ready to roll out virtual currency. |
Fast Company
July 2009
Michael Fitzgerald |
Boomtown Virtual goods, such as avatars and Facebook gifts, are attracting major brands, celebrities, and venture capital. The money is real. |
InternetNews
November 24, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Get a Life: Enterprises Eye Potential For Second Life Enterprises are dipping their toes in the waters of virtual worlds, but may have to wait to see the benefits. |
CIO
February 1, 2007
Margaret Locher |
Targeting Customers in Second Life If you're trying to help your company or your customers market products or services in Second Life, where more than 84 million real-world dollars changed hands in 2006, beware: Old-world advertising wisdom won't play. |
InternetNews
November 13, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Real Cash in $100M Virtual IBM Investment IBM to Announce $100 million investment at Second Life 'Town Hall' Meeting tomorrow. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2008
Anders Bylund |
IBM Moves Into the Virtual World Second Life and IBM just showed that the massive Second Life world can connect to IBM's OpenSim servers. This could be the beginning of open standards that would connect every conceivable virtual reality network to each other. |
Entrepreneur
February 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
Out of This World Opportunities abound in online gaming. |
Information Today
April 30, 2007 |
NOAA Lab Opens 3-D Earth Site in Second Life The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration has developed a government-sponsored earth science "island" in the rapidly growing online world of Second Life. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
Virtual Worlds, Virtual Economies An economist talks about how online games can blur the line between fantasy and reality. |
PC Magazine
August 29, 2007
John R. Quain |
Virtual Life, Real Crime? As a crime wave sweeps Second Life, adherents are looking for answers. |
Fast Company
October 19, 2011
Christina Chaey |
Social Gaming Summit Of the 62 million Americans who will log game time on a social network this year, some 10% will open their real-world wallets to buy virtual goods. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Michael Tennesen |
Avatar Acts: Why Online Realities Need Regulation Conflicts on environments like Second Life can open up new legal questions |
The Motley Fool
October 24, 2008
Tim Beyers |
One Disruptive Growth Company Cash. Lots of cold, hard moola is making its way into online virtual worlds. Media companies and venture capital firms have pumped $493 million into Second Life wannabes during 2008. |
PC Magazine
June 28, 2005
David Murphy |
Virtual Currency For the over 800,000 subscribers to Sony Online Entertainment's Everquest II game, life in a virtual world follows a familiar pattern. |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Barry Diller Needs a Second Life InterActiveCorp may make a good match for Second Life, offering the virtual inhabitants Ticketmaster, LendingTree, Citysearch, Match.com, and other online services. |
BusinessWeek
August 13, 2007
Aili McConnon |
Just Ahead: The Web As A Virtual World Imagine being able to have a digital replica of yourself stroll from one site to another. |
InternetNews
August 20, 2009 |
Facebook Tests Branded Virtual, Real-World Gifts Facebook is expanding its efforts to turn its online Gift Shop into a money-making opportunity through sales of other companies' virtual - and potentially physical - goods. |
