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Second Life 1.23.5.136262 (Windows)

Second Life is a 3D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. From the moment you enter the World you'll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity. Once you've explored a bit, perhaps you'll find a perfect parcel of land to build your...

Tags: Second Life, Resident, Linden Lab, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-29

Second Life 1.23.5.136262 (Mac)

Second Life is a virtual world - a 3D online persistent space totally created and evolved by its users. Within this vast and rapidly expanding place, you can do, create or become just about anything you can imagine. Built-in content creation tools let you make almost anything you can imagine,...

Tags: Second Life, Apple Macintosh, Linden Lab

Software downloads 2009-10-15

Second Life's Linden Labs adds execs from Intuit, McKinsey

Linden Lab, creator of the virtual world Second Life, announced today the appointments of Brian Michon, formerly VP of Engineering at Intuit, as Vice President of Core Development and Judy Wade, formerly a partner at McKinsey...

Tags: Second Life, Intuit Inc., McKinsey & Co., Virtual World, Linden Lab, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Short clip: Linden Lab providing users with an open-ended platform

Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab, says that the challenge of presenting a fully-realized world for over 100,000 people at a time can be solved by giving users the tools to create objects themselves.

Tags: Linden Lab, Productivity, Joe Miller, Platform

Videos 2008-09-02

Short clip: Linden Lab adding voice to Second Life

Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab, describes how users of Second Life have consumed more than 8 billion minutes using the company's VoIP software.

Tags: Second Life, Voice, Linden Lab, Telephony, Telecommunications, VOIP, Networking, Joe Miller

Videos 2008-09-02

Short clip: Linden Lab supporting business meetings in Second Life

Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab, explains how Second Life has become a competitor to Cisco's Telepresence in conducting international meetings, group projects, and even recruiting and job training.

Tags: Second Life, Linden Lab, Job Training, Recruitment & Selection, Training And Certification, Collaboration, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joe Miller

Videos 2008-09-02

Linden Lab VP, platforms & technology: Joe Miller

Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab talks to CNET’s Dan Farber about the challenges in developing dynamic and reliable backend operations for the 3D virtual world of Second Life. Miller also discusses how they’re incorporating new hi-tech conferencing tools for business users such as VoIP...

Tags: VP, Streaming Video, Linden Lab, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, VOIP, Telecommunications, Internet, Personal Technology, Networking, Administrator

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Linden Lab VP, platforms & technology: Joe Miller

Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab talks to CNET's Dan Farber about the challenges in developing dynamic and reliable backend operations for the 3D virtual world of Second Life. Miller also discusses how they're incorporating new hi-tech conferencing tools for business users such as VoIP...

Tags: VP, Streaming Video, Linden Lab, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, VOIP, Telecommunications, Internet, Personal Technology, Networking, Joe Miller

Videos 2008-09-02

Business meetings in Second Life

Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab, explains how Second Life has become a competitor to Cisco's Telepresence in conducting international meetings, group projects, and even recruiting and job training.

Tags: Second Life, Job Training, Recruitment & Selection, Training And Certification, Collaboration, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Linden Lab

Videos 2008-09-02

Second Life: avatar sued for copyright infringement

When Second Life's makers, Linden Lab, made the decision to allow users to retain all intellectual property rights for virtual items that they created, it was always likely that the virtual world would someday be dragged into court. And that's exactly what's set to happen.As Reuters reports:Second Life entrepreneur Kevin...

Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life, Net culture

Blog posts 2007-07-04

Second Life to open-source grid; will Google bite?

Having already taken the timid steps of open-sourcing the code for its client software, Linden Lab have confirmed that theyll be going the whole way, and will soon be opening up the server code for Second Life. This is big news, as it furthers Second Lifes ambitions to be a...

Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life, Google

Blog posts 2007-04-18

FBI peering into virtual casinos

Do their avatars wear shiny black shoes? The FBI has been poking around Second Life, at the invitation of 2L creators Linden Lab, to look into possibly illegal virtual gambling, but the government says its not sure if gambling in the fake world is illegal, Reuters reports. "We have...

Tags: Law enforcement, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-05

FBI visits Second Life

Reuters is reporting that Second Lifes makers, Linden Lab, have invited the FBI into the virtual world to investigate and advise on the possible illegality of gambling in-world:"We have invited the FBI several times to take a look around in Second Life and raise any concerns they would like, and...

Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life

Blog posts 2007-04-04

Integrated voice coming to 'Second Life'

Integrated voice coming to 'Second Life'This is Great news forEnglish Village! A place to learn a language online!I am Fire Centaur Paul Preibisch in RL and the owner of English Village in SL Second LifeThis is amazing news for us, because my Virtual Island is specifically for language learning. ...

Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Games, Linden Lab, voice, English Village, Second Life

Discussion threads 2007-02-27

Second Life IP rights; here today, gone tomorrow

Second Lifes IP policy reads: "You create it, you own it -- and its yours to do with as you please." The idea being that users own the Intellectual Property rights to any virtual works that they create in-world. However, a more honest version might read, "You create it, you...

Tags: Second Life, Linden Lab, intellectual property, intellectual property right

Blog posts 2007-02-03

Second Life eyeing upload fees, better bandwidth use, Flash/Firefox projects

Linden Lab CTO Chief Technnology Officer Cory Ondrejka says that Second Life is eyeing upload fees for textures."I like the idea of differential upload costs for textures, I’m curious what other folks think about that," he said during an SecondLife virtual town hall meeting last night. The...

Tags: Second Life, trends, General, Mozilla Firefox, texture

Blog posts 2006-12-21

Meet the virtual worlds maven

Linden Lab--where 'Second Life' is firstAt Supernova2006 in San Francisco, Linden Lab founder and CEO Philip Rosedale appears in the flesh and talks with CNET News.com's Neha Tiwari about real-world events.

Tags: Linden Lab

Videos 2006-06-23

A more exciting, animated you

Linden Lab updates the animation features of "Second Life," its virtual-reality worldSan Francisco-based Linden Lab's online role-playing environment "Second Life" is an online community for anyone over 18 looking for a virtual escape. Linden Lab CEO Phillip Rosedale gives correspondent James Hilliard a tour and explains how users are turning...

Tags: Linden Lab, Second Life

Videos 2004-06-21

Additional Resources

Even with adult content regulated, Second Life is dead in ed

OK, so the title is a little cheesy, but I don't think I'm wrong here. Linden Labs announced today that it would be regulating the adult content rampant on its virtual world, Second Life. According to TG Daily, The company will implement a three-tiered...

Tags: Second Life, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Which IT jobs will survive the credit crunch?

Which IT jobs will survive the credit crunch?And dont forget the virtual worlds industryHands up I am a metaverse evangelist, but I am seeing that the cost pressures on travel, the time pressures and the green pressures are causing more enterprises to re-examine the serious nature of interactions that can...

Tags: Strategy, IT job, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-09-30