Strawberry Singh has weighed in on the debate over whether or not the Second Life Marketplace is a good thing for in-world commerce.  As of my last check, she’s up to 11 comments and pingbacks, including my own submission.  I’d urge you to go read this and giveconsidered opinion to the matter, then offer up [...]

In case you haven’t read this already, click through to New World Notes and read this comment by Desmond Shang, the “Guvnah” of Caledon, on why the loss of regions in Second Life may be a good thing for the Grid, instead of a tale of woe, doom ‘n gloom.  I’ve wondered myself if SL [...]

Tanaquil Beaumont has written an Excellent Article about the latest hot topic to hit Second Life, mesh fashion.  Tanaquil gives the primary high and low points about what mesh clothing can do for the fashion industry in a clear, illustrated form that I found wonderfully helpful.  Read and like.  (If you’re on wordpress.com, you can [...]

I can’t let this moment go by without writing something, even if I have to write it on an iPhone. Egypt is going through incredible change at this moment and we must applaud their people for doing it with a minimum of bloodshed. Now comes the rebuilding, and the time to really worry. So much [...]

New World Notes published an article an hour ago that Resident profiles are available, at least in part, on the open Web through their site and a special secure address.  The new page, attributed to Daniel Voyager, comes direct from your in-world profile with very little difference in content.   Mine is below, for instance: You [...]

New World Notes: Linden Lab Announces New CEO: Electronic Arts Executive and Game Developer Rod Humble This is an interesting move on Linden Lab’s part, as well as one that may fan the flames on whether Second Life is a game world, a business tool, or an alternate universe for us to build and explore.  [...]

If you’re interested in the recent closure of the Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum, you might want to show up at this event. Read through to Prim Perfect‘s full article to learn more. UPDATE, December 7, 9:00 a.m: The discussion is now up on Treet TV (57 minutes). ===== Join us in our Northpoint studio [...]

Bad news comes in from New World Notes:  the Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum, one of the showcases of Second Life intersecting with Real Life, will be closing after Saturday, December 4. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which was created by Wright before his death to protect his intellectual property, has allowed the license they granted [...]

    Along with Real Life, avatars were requested to wear something purple recently in honor of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers student who threw himself off the George Washington Bridge following a nasty piece of apparent cyberbullying.  Tyler, a homosexual man, was surreptitiously recorded having sex with a partner by his college roommate, and then [...]

Instead, it appears that the eminent Mr. Ballmer in Redmond has purchased Vivaty, another virtual world.  Hamlet Au speculates that this might be the source of the rumors which shot through the Plitterverse (that’s both Twitter and Plurk) a few days ago that Microsoft was bidding for the purchase of Linden Lab. So, it appears [...]