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Exclusive: Why Reuters Left Second Life, And How Linden Lab Can Fix It

2008-11-21 14:05:00 by Eric Krangel in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...Life bureau has closed, and adds about the embedded reporter there Reports of a marketing evac team swooping in a virtual huey to snatch Eric Reuters from the firm's Sadville bureau - while harried by squadrons of flying penises and pursued by crazed locals bent on acts of bestial sexual brutality - could not be confirmed I can add details:...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Empire Strikes Back as Second Life Announces Instant Messenger SLim

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2008-09-05 01:12:55 by Doriano "Paisano" Carta in Mashable!
...Life , a leader in 3D Virtual Worlds, to respond to There.coms announcement of new features .The most compelling new feature There.com revealed was its innovative ThereIM which would allow its members to chat in 3D and 2D worlds at the same time. Not to be out-done by their competition, Second Life has announced their own instant messenger...
 
 
 
 
 
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IBM Drinks Second Life Kool-Aid, Makes More For Lotus Users (IBM)

2008-09-04 18:00:00 by Eric Krangel in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...Life is over? IBM doesn't. Yesterday Big Blue announced it was integrating support for Second Life (and a few other virtual world platforms) into its Lotus Sametime corporate instant-messaging product Why? IBM thinks if an engineer has to walk a customer through replacing a part on a computer server, the two can meet in Second Life and...
 
 
 
 
 
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Second Life Offers Business Teleconferencing, Now Penis-Free

2008-10-20 14:55:00 by Eric Krangel in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...Life: it wants to be a 3D teleconferencing platform for enterprise customers. Today the company announced a new product called "Immersive Workspaces," an area in Second Life set aside for corporate meetings. Of course, you could already do that years ago, but this new product is "a completely exclusive and secure experience, with no...
 
 
 
 
 
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Google: No Sex in Second Life-Killer Lively (GOOG)

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2008-07-10 16:53:00 by Eric Krangel in Silicon Alley Insider
...Life and Lively, the new virtual world announced by Google How much time do you have? Second Life requires its own software and needs a PC equipped with a high-end graphics card; Lively runs in a Web browser. In Second Life, anyone with a little programming know-how can create anything, which makes the experience "fun"; in Lively, avatars...
 
 
 
 
 
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Linden Lab Pulls Back Second Life Price Hikes, Confirms Layoffs

2008-11-05 15:54:00 by Eric Krangel in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...Life by 67%, leading, of course, to the kind of histrionics Second Lifers do best: angry protest rants, sulky threats to quit the game, and avatars setting themselves on fire (an act we note involves no actual pain or sacrifice). But this time Linden Lab backed down: Today the company announced it would either restore prices to their original...
 
 
 
 
 
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Sony Tries Virtual World Advertising On PS3: Unlike Second Life, It Might Even Work (SNE)

2008-12-03 15:01:00 by Eric Krangel in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...Life has stalled and Google (GOOG) has shut down Lively , but the hope that 3D online spaces can attract advertisers just won't die Next up with virtual world advertising dollars: Red Bull, which is partnering with Sony (SNE) to put a tropical island and airplane racing game on the PS3 virtual world "Home." Red Bull hosts real-life air shows...
 
 
 
 
 
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Exploiting QuickTime flaws in 'Second Life'

2008-02-17 02:02:00 by Robert Vamosi in Webware.com
 
...Life during a Saturday morning presentation at ShmooCon, an East Coast computer hacking conference. The researchers didn't exploit a flaw within Linden Labs' Second Life , but within QuickTime. They showed how an attacker could make money stealing from innocent Second Life victims Miller and Zovi are both experienced with flaws within Apple...
 
 
 
 
 
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SuccessBox.co.uk - Do Not Throw Your Life Away

2008-03-19 14:27:00 by Lani in KillerStartups.com - all