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- Virtual land beef moves to realworld court
- A lawsuit over virtual property is being played out in a very real courtroom as a Pennsylvania judge has denied two motions by Linden Labs, creators of Second Life, to allow them to shut down an attorney's account, reports Ars Technica.Pennsylvania attorney Marc Bragg says his Second Life property is...
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Second Life client open-sourced
- The makers of Second Life Linden Labs have announced that as of today the client software for its virtual world will be released under an open-source license (GNU GPL version 2). This means that the outside development community can help improve the existing software needed to log-on and interact with...
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- Second Life: Don't believe the hype
- Clay Shirky is on a mission to debunk the resident numbers of Second Life that are routinely published by the games makers Linden Labs and subsequently banded about by bloggers and journalists alike. And hes doing a pretty good job:Lindens numbers also suggest that the Residents figure includes even failed...
- Blog posts 2006-12-26
- Second Life: gangs, theft and goo.
- According to Business Week, Second Life has a crime problem. First there was the CopyBot saga theft; then a worm which spread grey goo throughout the virtual world, bringing the games servers to a standstill vandalism; and now it seems gangs are forcing members out of public places (anti-social behavior):It...
- Blog posts 2006-11-22
- In Second Life, those on 'Candid Copybot' aren't smiling
- Marty Schwimmer tipped me to the controversy swirling about use of a CopyBot tool in Second Life. (Go read Martys terrifically headlined post: CopyBot Terrorizing Residents Of SecondLife, Caught On Video.) Marty thinks this is an indication Linden Labs will have to bake more protective measures into its...
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- A fist full of Linden dollars
- A new software program doing the rounds within Second Life, threatened to render the games virtual currency worthless. CopyBot allows objects to be cloned at no cost - objects that would otherwise be exchanged for Linden dollars. Naturally, Second Life retailers werent happy, and protested to the games makers, Linden...
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
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- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- Virtual world tipping point: Is there an enterprise use?
- Google has entered the virtual world game with a project called Lively and Second Life and IBM have pulled off a few interoperability experiments. Add it up and we may be seeing a little tipping point for virtual worlds. There may be even a few corporate uses in the future....
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- IBM and Linden Partner on Enterprise-Class Second Life
- IBM and Linden Labs are partnering to develop a version of Second Life that will live behind the corporate firewall. As I mentioned in my previous post, Second Life is far too fat and clumsy to be taken seriously in the enterprise. Add to that concerns around...
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Is open source giving Second Life a second life?
- Linden Labs, whose Second Life is so cool yet so lacking in profits it's been lampooned in an IBM ad, sent out an e-mail alert this week boasting that open source is giving the company, well, a second life. The alert lists a host of open source...
- Blog posts 2008-02-23
- QuickTime hack allows Second Life currency theft
- Security researchers Dino Dai Zovi and Charlie Miller have found a way to exploit an unpatched QuickTime vulnerability to steal Linden Dollars from users in the Second Life virtual world. Dai Zovi the hacker behind the CanSecWest MacBook Pro hijack and Miller (creator of the first...
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- 'Second Life': The promise and paradox
- 'Second Life': The promise and paradoxSecond Life: The Seinfeld of GamingIt's a game about nothing (not that there's anything wrong with that!) Second Life is what you make of it, and it's not for the technologically challenged. What this report left out is the quality of the people who...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-27
- Second Life gets a voice; Slashdot adds social news features; Pandora lands on Facebook; Digg vs Netscape (redux)
- Second Life gets a voice; Slashdot adds social news features; Pandora lands on Facebook; Digg vs Netscape reduxSecond Life gets a partial voice...Just to clarify your roundup about the Second Life voice client, it's currently only available to Windows and Mac users. Linux users, however, are SOL until the proprietary...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-05
- The future of virtual worlds
- At the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 07 the virtual worlds was under scrutiny. Virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier led a panel below with Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Labs Second Life; Irving Wladawksy-Berger of IBM; Chris Sherman, CEO of Gaia Online and Chris Melissinos, chief gaming officer at Sun.The big question...
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Banned: Gambling in Second Life
- If, like me, you've lost a few hundred Linden dollars on a virtual roulette wheel in Second Life, and were planning on returning sometime soon to win it all back -- you're out of luck. After coming under increasing scrutiny from the FBI and other law enforcers, Linden Labs has...
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Second Life: avatar sued for copyright infringement
- Second Life: avatar sued for copyright infringementOld exploits?There is or at least was a tool publicly out there that could copy the prim shape information of objects, and I know that there used to be a couple of exploits that would end up giving you the source code for a...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-04
- Comcast opens Second Life "theme park"
- Comcast opens Second Life "theme park"Do moreSecond Life management is pathetic and Linden labs is completly ignorant of its users need (correct bugs and don't add any feature). Comcast or any other company should buy secondlife and manage it like pro, not like teens who have no ideas on how...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-15
- Comcast opens Second Life "theme park"
- Comcast now has its own Second Life world.It's actually an online theme park- and it's called Comcastic Island. No, you won't be able to pay your Comcash bill in Linden Dollars (or even in U.S. currency) but you will be able to participate in a racetrack, Jet Ski track...
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
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