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Happy mother's Day Rose hunt

▼Rose Hunt Slurl http://slurl.com/secondlife/Retrology/174/234/40 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Retrology/178/173/40 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Retrology/190/126/40 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Retrology/176/39/44 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Retrology/77/73/40 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Retrology/138/64/40 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Retrology/20/94/40 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Retrology/110/222/40 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Retrology/91/211/40

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Posted by Michelle Su on May 12, 2008 at 11:38pm — No Comments

Leaving SL?

As the credit crunch hits my sales in rl and sl, I'm looking at shutting down my sl membership. I may take a free avatar to keep in touch, but sales don't make it worthwhile keeping land etc. I'm looking at sales in other areas, such as t-shirts at www.redbubble.com under kenwalters, and I've made an approach to DAZ 3D about textures and art for them. This move has been "inspired" by my bank manager, they're getting restless with accounts whose incomes have gone down recently-which is their poli… Continue

Posted by Ken Walters on May 10, 2008 at 2:00am — No Comments

SL Shakespeare Company's Miniseason #2

Miniseason ends this week. Check out the playbill for showtimes, and visit the SL Globe Theatre

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Posted by ina centaur on May 5, 2008 at 9:35pm — No Comments

SL Shakespeare Company's Miniseason #2

Miniseason ends this week. Check out the playbill for showtimes, and visit the SL Globe Theatre

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Posted by ina centaur on May 5, 2008 at 9:35pm — No Comments

Greetings! - My words on Virtual Worlds

Greetings VWC, I just signed up and am excited to join a new community of like-minded persons. I figured my first blog should be worth some thought so I want to share with you why I'm excited about working with virtual worlds. I've been in this game a while and the events of late have got me convinced that our collective endeavor into this new space are on the radar. Interest in Virtual Worlds continue to grow. The potential for learning and entertainment as well as a majority of other matters… Continue

Posted by Lou Mourelatos on May 4, 2008 at 4:02am — No Comments

The Blue Book: A Consumer Guide to Virtual Worlds -- missing information

Hello, What a nice book. It lists many virtual worlds, but I couldn't find 3d planets. Why is that not included? There are a few others. I wonder what criteria They used to figure out this list membership? Can someone tell me why Vrml/x3d is like..... verboten? Continue

Posted by Jack Ryker on May 4, 2008 at 1:05am — No Comments

freebie

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Posted by Michelle Su on May 4, 2008 at 12:23am — No Comments

Windlight Photo Contest

SNS"Koinup" of the Windlight Photo Contest virtual world is holding the photograph contest of WINDLIGHT. Very, 20,000 Linden dollar presents it to three people respectively. Windlight Contest

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Posted by Sammy Biddle on May 3, 2008 at 7:00am — No Comments

Free gift from Talisman

Touch the subscribe to join , then touch it again , you will get a window, choose history. there are 10 history , i do not remember which one is the dress. try them all ... lol

▼Talisman Slurl http://slurl.com/secondlife/Talisman/197/15/22 here is the subscribe board… Continue

Posted by Michelle Su on May 2, 2008 at 4:55am — No Comments

Taking good pictures in secondlife WL version

These settings are tweaked for use with the current default SL client, as the old WL settings I have on my blog are now obsolete. This is based on the default midday setting with some tweaks so your avatar will look better with local lighting AND atmospheric shaders (no need to turn them off). It's recommended to use a very faint face lamp or none at all in public (consider it as doing the public a service that your face lamps won't be blinding anyone else on WL!). Note that the lighting is unif… Continue

Posted by Michelle Su on May 2, 2008 at 2:30am — No Comments

Treasure hunt tips

Treasure :

Sim:Isle of Tranquility Deadline: May 3rd but the apples(different colors) example :

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Posted by Michelle Su on May 2, 2008 at 2:28am — No Comments

Free dress in icey

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Posted by Michelle Su on May 2, 2008 at 2:13am — No Comments

Exodus to the Virtual Workplace, Part 2

cross-posted from The Arch: link to site

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Posted by Keystone Bouchard on April 30, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Exodus to the Virtual Workplace, Part 1

cross-posted from The Arch: link to site Virtual Workplace

I'm often asked if it is actually possible to make a living practicing virtual architecture in Second Life. As it turns out, I have indeed become quite a virtual… Continue

Posted by Keystone Bouchard on April 30, 2008 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

freebies in Le Zoo

Sheer-zybra tights http://slurl.com/secondlife/Le%20Zoo/29/112/22

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Posted by Michelle Su on April 30, 2008 at 5:55am — No Comments

Engines I was looking at or currently am ...

For the past few months, I have been getting to know Second Life, Entropia and Open Sim. Up until March 2008, I was looking and creating a small Virtual World in the Torque engine (currently used at IBM as Metaverse). I gave up on it as I was getting tired of the inexistance of proper documentations, ambigous community answers, re-occuring problems, missing/odd functionalities (ex:no transparency for structures, lack of animated textures, ...). Licenced software. ==> Torque is made by… Continue

Posted by Francois Picard on April 29, 2008 at 2:00am — No Comments

free female skins

*blowpop* Mellie3_Caramel [simply nekkid] *blowpop* Mellie3_Cinnamon [simply nekkid] *blowpop* Mellie3_Cocoa [simply nekkid] *blowpop* Mellie3_Cream [simply nekkid] *blowpop* Mellie3_Honey [simply nekkid] *blowpop* Mellie3_Vanilla [simply nekkid] all L$0

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Posted by Michelle Su on April 28, 2008 at 9:41am — No Comments

ELECTRIC ARCHAEOLOGIST SEES THE FUTURE

For a sample of MellaniuM VRW's click on this link "THE INVOCATION OF THOTH" Shawn Graham noted blogger on education in SL "Electric Archaeology: Digital Med… Continue

Posted by Joe Rigby on April 26, 2008 at 8:41pm — No Comments

MellaniuM learns how to fly the Dragon

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Posted by Ken on April 24, 2008 at 9:20am — No Comments

Casting Shadows

cross-posted from The Arch: link to site These past few months have brought about a rather exciting surge of announcements and renewed energy around the OpenSIM project, the open source virtual world platform. Though it is still alpha level code, the future potential is obvious, especially for those of us anxiously awaiting the ability to import 3D models created, textured and rendered in externa… Continue

Posted by Keystone Bouchard on April 23, 2008 at 2:31pm — No Comments

Freebies

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Posted by Michelle Su on April 23, 2008 at 3:59am — No Comments

Live Meeting on Audio and Video for Instruction and Learning May 5, 2008

A live online meeting and synchronous discussion is scheduled for Monday May 5, 2008 at 9.00 P.M. Jerusalem on audio and video for instruction and learning at… Continue

Posted by Nellie Deutsch on April 21, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

GreenbushGrid (our Opensim Island) on an interactive whiteboard (Promethean Acvtiveboard): Video Demo

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Posted by Rich White on April 21, 2008 at 10:14am — No Comments

CHERRY BLOSSOM DANCE FESTIVAL

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Posted by Sammy Biddle on April 18, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

MyVirtualSpace? Exit Realty's Demo of 3D Space for Social Network Pages

Spotted this on TechCrunch. Also, 3B has already tried to build virtual spaces from people's social media content such as images. But as the one comment on the video notes, hard to tell if this is ridiculous or brilliant. Someone is going to crack the intersection between social networks and 3D worlds, but not sure what it will take to win. Exit Real… Continue

Posted by Jack Mason on April 17, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

PSP (Portable Play Station) Virtual Worlds

So..... I got a Psp.... and I am amazed at its ultility! Its pretty easy to connect to an available network and surf the 2d information web.... the best part is the gaming. Its just a pefect device . Now I expect 1. Goggles 2. A Virtual World for PSP...... 3.....and a phone function... I envision myself using PSP for entertainment and pc for deeper applications, work applications etc. But the Virtual Worlds would be so rock and roll on the Psp. I usually travel vw's with one hand on my chin...… Continue

Posted by Jack Ryker on April 17, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Freebies

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Posted by Michelle Su on April 16, 2008 at 10:33am — No Comments

Immersive Education and the Education Grid - a Discussion with Aaron Walsh

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Posted by Rich White on April 15, 2008 at 12:37pm — No Comments

New Canopus Research Inc. HQ Office at Soheil in SecondLife

I am pleased to announce that the Canopus Research Inc. Second Life headquarters office will soon be located in the Soheil region (formerly Strawberry), recently acquired from my friend Coolz0r Courier. Soheil is one of the English renderings of the Arabic/Persian word for the star Canopus, for which Canopus Research was named when the business was originally registered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, RL in 1982. The deal to purchase the sim was made more than two weeks ago but, distracted by… Continue

Posted by Arifi Saeed on April 13, 2008 at 11:13am — No Comments

Lindens are Trying? Yes, I think so!

I have not been easy on the Linden's lately. Like many other Second Life residents and business people I find the recent unreliablity of the grid troublesome. The severity of the problems these past few weeks leads one to worry about the future of Second Life. One worries they just never will get it to work properly; that SL might simply limp along until a competitive world comes on line with the full range of capabilities of SL (or more) to displace it. But perhap one ought to step back a bit,… Continue

Posted by Arifi Saeed on April 12, 2008 at 10:11am — No Comments

Second Life and the Miraculous Cow

Having recently returned from the Virtual Worlds 2008 Conference in New York City, where I had only an old and pathetically slow laptop with lousy graphics, I was looking forward to coming home to my powerful, self-built desktop system with killer graphics and two displays - and being able actually to move and to do things in world in Second Life again. So much for positive expectations. Second Life is a total catastrophe (again!) today. I wrote here a couple weeks ago on the question of whethe… Continue

Posted by Arifi Saeed on April 12, 2008 at 10:10am — No Comments

Please come to GION Project by all means.

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Posted by Sammy Biddle on April 12, 2008 at 6:03am — No Comments

CHERRY BLOSSOM DANCE FESTIVAL

Entertainment SIM that imaged Kyoto and Gion in Japan In GION, "CHERRY BLOSSOM DANCE FESTIVAL" is held for until April 12th - April 26th. The Cherry Blossom Dance Festival – Experience True Japanese Tradition Please join us for the upcoming celebration performances and e… Continue

Posted by Sammy Biddle on April 12, 2008 at 5:54am — No Comments

Titanic Virtually Unreal

Titanic Virtually Unreal I’ve just been given a demo of a Virtual Space by Joe Rigby of Mellanium Studios, where they’ve created a live scale replica of the Titanic using the Unreal 2 engine and roughly 850,000 polygons. It’s quite impressive. Check it out, more info after the Video.

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Posted by Ken on April 10, 2008 at 8:16am — No Comments

Surface Devices to navigate 3D Virtual worlds in the school - Edusim

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Posted by Rich White on April 9, 2008 at 9:12am — No Comments

How to Create an Executive Summary for the Business Plan

Today we are going to break down the first part of the Business Plan which is called the Executive Summary. This portion of the plan can also be thought of as the overview which describes the key facts, issues, and conclusions of the entire document. This is NOT the place where you will go into detail about the purposes, methods, or strategies of your business plan. Think of the Business Plan as the introductory paragraph of a high school paper. Remember that the introductory paragraph was desi… Continue

Posted by Amy on April 8, 2008 at 11:06am — No Comments

How to Create a Business Plan

When you are starting a new business whether it is a mid-sized capital venture project or a small home based business there are several essential steps that need to be taken to ensure that you have a plan of action to keep the company moving forward. In the business world this is called a "Business Plan". The definition of a business plan is "a written plan that lists the financial and operational objectives of the company". This can be a very valuable tool for your company if it is well though… Continue

Posted by Amy on April 8, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

Perfect Prefabs Pages

dont know if i will manage to write 2 blogs. my stuff is here and here. Continue

Posted by Siss on April 8, 2008 at 2:31am — No Comments

I'm on Massively today!

This is exciting: http://www.massively.com/2008/04/05/metaplace-community-spotlight-life-of-the-party/ Continue

Posted by drOffset on April 6, 2008 at 7:25pm — No Comments

MellaniuM to create Virtual Real Worlds for Autistic Research.

MellaniuM to create Virtual Real Worlds for Autistic Research. Virtual Real Worlds are to be used to simulate new 3D environments for people in the autistic spectrum. For people with autism, VRWs are way of setting up realistic social situations that might be encountered in their everyday lives. For people who have social, emotional, communicational problems VRWs can enable them to familiarise with a simulated situational environment before actually experiencing in real life. MellaniuM design… Continue

Posted by Ken on April 4, 2008 at 5:19pm — No Comments

Virtual Accounting Services

The purpose of this blog is to accomplish 2 objectives. 1. To expose my new company to the virtual world by talking about my career experience, strengths, and to obtain accounting projects for my work at home business. 2. To share my wealth of information about business and personal finances and accounting with YOU. I will have tips, suggestions, and checklists for the small business owner and individual families to help you manage, save, and achieve your financial goals. 3. To share the info… Continue

Posted by Amy on April 4, 2008 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

Virtual Luxury Auto Dealerships Grand Opening at United Spinal Association Event on Motorability Island

Internet and computer consultant, Jerry Madsen of Madsen Consulting, has a team of experts working night and day in Second Life (SL) to prepare several virtual luxury automobile dealerships for their grand opening. During a charity benefit for the United Spinal Association to be h… Continue

Posted by Patty Streeter aka Jody DeVere on April 2, 2008 at 3:04pm — 1 Comment

I Love You - Vampire Love

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Posted by ArikelleWolf on April 1, 2008 at 12:47pm — No Comments

Robert J. Sawyer in Extropia!

We've had a lot of wonderful guests in Extropia, but next Sunday we're going to have a very special visitor! Robert J. Sawyer (SF Writer in SL) will be joining us for a discussion of his novels and his visions of the future, in life extension, robotics, artificial intelligence, SETI, inter-species ethics and many more fascinating topics. And, he'll be sticking around afterwards to join the Extropia Book Club in a discussion of his latest novel, Rollback, just named as a finalist for the Hugo Aw… Continue

Posted by Sophrosyne Stenvaag on March 30, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Alienbear March Member gift

Here is the alienbear march member gift :D

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Posted by Michelle Su on March 29, 2008 at 2:48am — 1 Comment

CHERRY BLOSSOM DANCE FESTIVAL

The maikoes' wonderful performance dances can be seen.

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Posted by Sammy Biddle on March 28, 2008 at 10:21pm — No Comments

Fashion, Cars and Avatars Event in Second Life to Raise Awareness About Spinal Cord Injury on Motorability Island Sat Mar 29th 9am slt

Cars! A passion, a hobby, and a culture. It all comes together for Second Life residents on Motorability Island in Second Life. United Spinal Association’s 7-sim Motorability Island, formerly Pontiac’s Motorati Island, is set for its grand opening on Saturday the 29th of March - however it’s open to the public now. Fashion Cars and Avatars is the theme for the event. All proceeds go to UnitedSpinal.org. IM Patty Streeter for a TP to the event Event proceeds, sales of goods and services from… Continue

Posted by Patty Streeter aka Jody DeVere on March 28, 2008 at 12:14pm — No Comments

1L BACKPACK AND TORCH

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Posted by Michelle Su on March 27, 2008 at 11:57pm — No Comments

The Cherry blossoms festival　in GION Project

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Posted by Sammy Biddle on March 27, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Yaz Rockett GION Experiment

http://gionproject.slmame.com/e159792.html http://gionproject.slmame.com/d2008-02.html

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Posted by Sammy Biddle on March 27, 2008 at 3:00pm — No Comments

GION Project

To GION Project Welcome thank you for getting it because of going out. GIONProject imaged Kyoto and Gion, and is new sense synthesis entertainment SIM. The special product of GIONProject There are a Japanese style shopping named JINRIKISHA for the harmony boat and Japanese cl… Continue

Posted by Sammy Biddle on March 26, 2008 at 9:38pm — No Comments

IBM Virtual Worlds 1Q 2008 Roundup Reblog

Because my colleague Ian "ePredator Potato" Hughes has done such a great job on this post, which can be found on the eightbar blog, I wanted to reblog the first part of it here:

IBM Virtual Worlds 1Q 2008 roundup March… Continue

Posted by Jack Mason on March 26, 2008 at 2:17pm — No Comments

Try 'COOL AVATAR or NOT!'

I'm just testing a simple social program like 'HOT OR NOT' in-world. Can anybody try it? COOL AVATAR OR NOT

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Posted by ak Yip on March 26, 2008 at 4:30am — No Comments

OpenSim for Mac OS-X 10.5.2

If you're into experimenting with "alpha" code I highly recommend that you play with OpenSim I compiled OpenSim on my MacBook Pro and have everything up and running with the latest SL client. Once you get your SIM up and running you can connect it to one of the public grids. Mac users will have to install Mono before building the source but the install is painless. You can download the source code using Subver… Continue

Posted by Dan Johnson on March 25, 2008 at 9:44pm — No Comments

RL Brand Directory (in second life)

Mindblizzard updated RL Brand Directory, companies in second life. The directory coverd not only US, European but also Asian companies. Check it out!

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Posted by ak Yip on March 24, 2008 at 7:31pm — No Comments

xkcd on existentialism of virtuality

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Posted by Jack Mason on March 24, 2008 at 1:01pm — No Comments

Unified Communications and Virtual Worlds: Blog Search Coverage

With the excellent news about IBM's collaboration with Forterra Systems on integrating its platform with the Lotus Sametime communications infrastructure (for instant messaging and much more), I thought I'd share this roundup

, via Google Blog Search, of some of the… Continue

Posted by Jack Mason on March 24, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Is Linden Research Broken?

Canopus Research Inc. President, William F. Zachmann first met Philip Rosedale on November 10, 2007 at Cyberposium 13 at the Harvard Business School. Philip was one of the keynote speakers at the event (Ray Kurzweil and Walt Mossberg were the others).

Will sent me into SL that very evening, just as soon as he returned from Cambridge, MA, USA, He wanted me to check it out and to get back to him as soon as possible with my observations and recommendations. Based on my initial field rep…

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Posted by Arifi Saeed on March 24, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments

Grid Wide Treasure hunt

Easter Egg hunt ...it is grid wide. 26 eggs in 26 places.

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Posted by Michelle Su on March 23, 2008 at 7:39am — No Comments

Virtual Reality Headset for the iPhone?

Courtesy of the Macstein blog, this news on a device from Boxfab that an iPhone can be attached to an iPhone for immersive virtual experiences. Sounds a little fishy, but conceptually very cool.

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Posted by Jack Mason on March 20, 2008 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Primetime Rewind: Another Example of 3DWeb Interface Innovation

PrimetimeRewind is in alpha, so too soon to say if the service is promising, but the Flash interface offers another example of ways in which 3D or dimensionalized experiences will continue to shape the Visual Web. But like virtual worlds, the kind of new experiences we're seeing via PicLens for browsing image collections and SpaceTime which offers a similar kind of fly-t… Continue

Posted by Jack Mason on March 20, 2008 at 11:23am — No Comments

Federal Virtual Worlds Expo: April 23-25, 2008

Federal Virtual Worlds Expo: Implementing the Future April 24-25, 2008 National Defense University and Second Life Washington, DC and the Grid There's a plethora current Virtual Worlds champions scheduled for the upcoming events in April. One of the VW conferences is the 2nd installment of the event sponsored by the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds. The good stuff starts with the pre-conference workshop on the… Continue

Posted by Barry Everett on March 20, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

Myrl.com Private Beta goes live today: answers, and invites, are coming…

Meet the Aliens! Announcing the Private Beta Launch of Myrl

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