Did LL design the metaverse to create resident conflict? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk I ran into a Second Life e-friend in Metaplace on Sunday - Robin Linden Harper had stopped by and left a comment on my profile. When I saw Robin was online, I hopped over to visit the garden world she...

Virtual world patent holder Worlds.com filed suit against NCSoft in December, claiming its games, including City of Heroes and Guild Wars, were violating its patent for multiplayer virtual environments. And it won't stop there. Worlds.com CEO Thom Kidrin says that the company "absolutely" has intent...

Agile, innovative and cutting edge - words not historically associated with the US federal government. Yet, when it comes to social media and Web 2.0 technologies this is exactly how to describe adoption across defense/intelligence, federal civilian and homeland security agencies. It’s quite excit...

Is this a first? I dunno, but it’s darn cool! Earlier today, I had asked Grace McDunnough if she could help out one of our users, Fredriksson,  try out live concert streams in Metaplace. Grace jumped in with both feet, and after we got it working (using the off-the-shelf guitar I made a while...

I know what you're thinking: "Verdino has finally lost his mind." While I'll admit that, to the casual observer, Twitter and Second Life bear very little resemblance to one another, the truth is that there are more than a few points of comparison -- both positive and negative, both trivial and signi...

Second Life Hockey Association Is Now Global Online Hockey Association by Alessandra Narayan Do you love hockey? Do you want to cross check other avatars into the boards here in Second Life? If so, you should visit Jack Belvedere’s sim and give it a try. You might end up absolutely in love - like ...

How do you convert the success of three multidisciplinary, multiuniversity, and multinational courses in Second Life into a full-fledged, university-wide commitment to this virtual world? Experience for yourself how teaching and learning is conducted there and how our university has learned to explo...

Bob Schieffer and Helen Thomas will be appearing in a Virtual Journalism summit in Second Life in April. It would be justice to present Helen Thomas with a long-winded attack on her shameful behavior, mockery of a career, petty refusal to make way for other members of the White House Press Corps, an...

It’s that time of year where things really start to kick-in. So on top of all my AFTRS lecturing, MA Supervision and LAMP R&D work plus commercial work via MUVEDesign and many consultancy sessions here are some nice breaks - seminars and conferences I am speaking at or running. (BTW most o...

March 7, 2009 (#87)- The Girls vs. Boys Show Originally aired March 22, 2008 Pink Meghan Vigeant - Independent producer, USA There’s no color more polarizing than pink. Some girls love it, some girls hate it. Some boys outwardly despise it, while secretly wishing they could wear it. There’s ...