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A fascinating essay raises questions about how Linden Lab manages the Second Life economy. The bottom line: “It appears very likely that Second Life will experience at least some form of economic recession.&rdquo (secondlife.reuters.com....e/economy/)
Growth in the number of registered Second Life avatars, rapidly closing in on 2 million, has drastically outstripped the increase in user hours in recent months (secondlife.reuters.com....e/economy/)
Real life and work takes priority over Second Life, especially when one in two login attempts fail. But I still find time play a bit of I Am Legend as a zombie Darkseeker, When I announce my entrance I am met with expletives from the people playing uninfected human (secondlife.reuters.com....ren-ellis/)
Some four days ago, a new sim called the Great Fissure was instantiated on the Second Life grid. This happens pretty much every day, of course: but it57;s not every day that I get to be in on it from the start. This is how land happens on Second Life (secondlife.reuters.com....ren-ellis/)
Reality show Big Brother is getting a little less real with a new Second Life edition, which will pit 15 contestants against each other in an attempt to win their own island (secondlife.reuters.com....lifestyle/)
Over 62,000 avatars were online in Second Life at the same time last weekend, another new record in a recent series of boosts to the concurrent population of Linden Lab57;s virtual world (secondlife.reuters.com....community/)
Volkov Catteneo, the Second Life avatar at the center of last year57;s SexGen copyright infringement lawsuit, told Reuters in a Second Life interview that the technique used to make copies of virtual objects has been blocked by Linden Lab (secondlife.reuters.com....cond-life/)
As real world companies abandon Second Life amidst a rash of ghost towns and bad press about the potential of virtual worlds to reach customers, Showtime57;s initiative stands out as one of the few companies that have made it work (secondlife.reuters.com....cond-life/)
Linden Lab said on Tuesday it is banning Second Life banking that promises interest or other investment returns, citing resident complaints and risks to the virtual world57;s economy (secondlife.reuters.com....cond-life/)
SECOND LIFE, Feb 7 (Reuters) Marco Eckert was showing off the newest line of clothes and custom skins in his Second Life store, an occasion ruined when an avatar started telling his customers in broken English where they could buy exact copies of Eckert57;s designs for 50 percent off (secondlife.reuters.com....rime-wave/)
For Eckert, this isn57;t a game. Running a successful Second Life store is a full-time career for the Nuremberg , Germany native, and he makes a comfortable living doing it. 60;Our sales dropped 75 percent in a week,61; he said of his battle against content pirates (secondlife.reuters.com....rime-wave/)
There are at least four widely-known methods of copying Second Life content nominally tagged as 60;no-copy61; by Linden57;s servers. Victims of piracy have little recourse. Linden Lab investigates DMCA filings but otherwise largely avoids disputes between avatars (secondlife.reuters.com....rime-wave/)
Second Life57;s merchants remain unsure how to proceed. Marco Bosco (Second Life: Maruko Sakigake), based in Brescia, Italy, recalled how one thief offered him a teleport to a store selling Bosco57;s designs. When Bosco asked him to stop, the thief laughed and told him there was nothing he could do (secondlife.reuters.com....rime-wave/)
The heir to the British throne, facing criticism for burning who knows how much jet fuel to fly to New York with his entourage and accept an environmental award from Al 60;Inconvenient Truth61; Gore, sounds like he may be thinking about getting a Second Lif (secondlife.reuters.com....ife/davos/)
Bureau chief Adam Reuters interviewed Linden Lab chairman Mitch Kapor on Friday from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland , where he talked about why we shouldn57;t care about the coming Second Life backlash, whether residents should have a seat on the board, and his in-world mind altering experience (secondlife.reuters.com....ife/davos/)
Conversation about the World Economic Forum is taking place face to face in the Reuters auditorium in Second Life, prompting discussion between some people who would otherwise have to sneak past the armed guards that have saturated Davos (secondlife.reuters.com....ife/davos/)
As real world companies abandon Second Life amidst a rash of ghost towns and bad press about the potential of virtual worlds to reach customers, Showtime57;s initiative stands out as one of the few companies that have made it work. (secondlife.reuters.com..../business/)
Linden Lab said on Tuesday it is banning Second Life banking that promises interest or other investment returns, citing resident complaints and risks to the virtual world57;s econom (secondlife.reuters.com..../business/)
After almost four months of searching, lawyers have identified Robert Leatherwood, 19, of North Richland Hills, Tx., as Second Life avatar 60;Volkov Catteneo.61; Leatherwood has denied he57;s the real-life person behind the Catteneo avatar (secondlife.reuters.com..../business/)
European users of Second Life bombarded Linden Lab executive Robin Harper on Tuesday with angry questions about the company57;s plan to charge Value Added Tax (VAT), but many said they plan to continue on despite higher costs (secondlife.reuters.com..../business/)
Anshe Chung Studios, the virtual world development and real estate company with major holdings in Second Life, has received a new round of venture capital financing from New York -based Gladwyne Partners (secondlife.reuters.com..../business/)
As Linden Lab prepares to take the Second Life server code open source, the company is finding its timeline challenged by an open source community that doesn57;t want to wait (secondlife.reuters.com..../business/)
We were alerted a short time ago that a QuickTime exploit has been discovered which may allow an attacker to crash or exploit the Second Life viewer. The Second Life viewer uses Apple QuickTime to play videos and streaming media. This exploit affects QuickTime usage on every platform that uses it, and to date, Apple has not released a fix for the exploit (blog.secondlife.com....rity-flaw/)
At this time we advise that you disable streaming video playback in the Second Life viewer except when you are attending a known and trusted venue. To do this, just open the Preferences dialog, and uncheck the 60;Play Streaming Video When Available61; checkbox on the 60;Audio Video61; tab (blog.secondlife.com....rity-flaw/)
The bug is in QuickTime, and not in the Second Life viewer. When Apple has submitted a fix, we will integrate it into the viewer as quickly as possible, and will notify everyone once this has been done (blog.secondlife.com....rity-flaw/)
It57;s a tad disappointing to see that the most we get from LL is a vague message: 60;We were alerted a short time ago that a QuickTime exploit has been discovered which may allow an attacker to crash or exploit the Second Life viewer.61 (blog.secondlife.com....rity-flaw/)
[70;] Second Life Blog Second Life Viewer Susceptible to Quicktime Security Flaw Quote from the site We were alerted a short time ago that a QuickTime exploit has been discovered [70; (blog.secondlife.com....rity-flaw/)
60;If the Second Life client used Real Player instead of QT, itās possible we would have been having this same ābashingā discussion two weeks ago, except we would have been slamming Real Networks instead of Apple.61 (blog.secondlife.com....rity-flaw/)
[70;] SecondLife posted an alert to both their blog and their Terms of Service notifying users of a flaw in QuickTime that can be used to 60;crash or exploit the Second Life viewer.61; But it seems this [70;] (blog.secondlife.com....rity-flaw/)
Overall growth in Second Life slowed for the fourth consecutive month. Total registrations increased by 15 percent last month to 6,860,473, down from a monthly growth rate of 38 percent in January. The monthly growth rate was the slowest in a year (secondlife.reuters.com....ed-3-to-1/)
Almost 21 million hours were spent in Second Life in May, an increase of 15 percent over the previous month and almost double the time spent in January (secondlife.reuters.com....ed-3-to-1/)
Second Life had 89,845 premium accounts by the end of May, an increase of under 7,000 from the previous month 52; the slowest increase in absolute numbers since October of last year (secondlife.reuters.com....ed-3-to-1/)
Kazuhiro Aridian is a customiser of Second Life bodies. I saw her limbs unfold, deploy and spread like some kind of skeletal mechanical bat, her pale face floating in its metal cradle like the Bjork-robots in the Chris Cunningham “All Is Full Of Love” video. (secondlife.reuters.com....is/page/2/)
Some people reject the notion that Second Life is an art space to be explored. Their intent is purely to replicate what they believe to be a rich person57;s living experience. It57;s a little like watching the MTV show “Cribs.&rdquo (secondlife.reuters.com....is/page/2/)
I had a history teacher whose favourite saying was that land is expensive because they don57;t make it any more. In Second Life, land is expensive because they make it very slowly. (secondlife.reuters.com....is/page/2/)
60;We begged them, please do something about this,61; said Alderman (Second Life: Stroker Serpentine), who is now at the center of two real-world copyright infringement lawsuits. 60;We filed abuse reports. We filed DMCA57;s. And nothing57;s been done.61 (secondlife.reuters.com....ght-chaos/)
Even as the applicability of the DMCA to Second Life is in doubt, residents complain DMCA complaints they57;ve filed with Linden Lab have been ignored (secondlife.reuters.com....ght-chaos/)
The confusing legal landscape for copyright protection in Second Life means that ultimately, victims of piracy will have to rely on lawyers, and not count on the protection of the DMCA, said Kane (secondlife.reuters.com....ght-chaos/)
A fascinating essay raises some serious questions about Linden Lab57;s management of the Second Life economy. The bottom line: 60;It appears very likely that Second Life will experience at least some form of economic recession.61 (secondlife.reuters.com....ess-cycle/)
The Australian government has determined that income earned in virtual economies like Second Life and World of Warcraft should be taxed, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Heral (secondlife.reuters.com....my/page/2/)
The head of a U.S. congressional committee thinks it 60;would be a mistake61; if the Internal Revenue Service introduced regulations to tax virtual economies such as Second Life and World of Warcraft (secondlife.reuters.com....my/page/2/)
Booming virtual economies in online worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft have drawn the attention of a U.S. congressional committee, which is investigating how virtual assets and incomes should be taxed (secondlife.reuters.com....my/page/2/)
Philip Rosedale and his team at Linden Lab have almost godlike powers in Second Life that Alan Greenspan (right) could only have dreamed of, but they have much the same job managing its fast-growing economy. (secondlife.reuters.com....my/page/2/)
If you&re a hardware vendor or software publisher who wants to get the attention of the Mac Life editorial team, here are the editors with whom you should be in contact (www.maclife.com....rial_beats)
Reuters will conduct a series of interviews with artists, politicians and executives at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week, in front of a live Second Life audienc (secondlife.reuters.com....os/page/2/)
Real life and work takes priority over Second Life, especially when one in two login attempts fail. But I still find time play a bit of I Am Legend as a zombie Darkseeker, When I announce my entrance I am met with expletives from the people playing uninfected humans (secondlife.reuters.com....fe/page/2/)
60;We57;re looking into expanding into other virtual worlds,61; said Leider Stepanov, deputy editor of Second Life tabloid The AvaStar. The move would echo a recent rebranding of the now-defunct Second Life Insider into Massively.com, which covers multiple virtual worlds (secondlife.reuters.com....fe/page/2/)
After almost four months of searching, lawyers have identified Robert Leatherwood, 19, of North Richland Hills, Tx., as Second Life avatar 60;Volkov Catteneo.61; Leatherwood has denied he57;s the real-life person behind the Catteneo avatar. (secondlife.reuters.com....fe/page/2/)
Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale sat down for an exclusive interview at the Second Life Community Convention on Saturday to talk about Linden57;s business model, its relationship with its customers, and whether the company will have to chase the lowest common denominator in adhering to real world laws (secondlife.reuters.com....ss/page/2/)
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