Second Life

Second Life is a three dimensional virtual world in which users control avatars that can socialize, collect items, share and learn, market products, and communicate with each other in a fantastical number of ways. Second Life is a product of Linden Lab which was founded in 1999 to be "a free online virtual world imagined and created by its Residents." There's no specific goal to playing Second Life, which allows participants to enter the virtual world with their own individualized goals and agenda. In that sense, Second Life can best be thought of as a social MMO (massively multiplayer online game).

Second Life has developed such an advanced virtual society that it has its own economic system, run on a currency called Linden Dollars. The demand for virtual services and goods within Second Life is such that people are willing to use real world money to purchase Linden Dollars.

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• Full Outfit No.18

  
  Curious Kitties Update Blog — Authority: 420
  Todays releases are 4 new full outfit sets! Out of the 4 new outfits I’d like to point out one in particular! The “Night Stalker” outfit! As always, these full outfits are perfect for alts or people who like Curious Kitties items but find it too difficult to put a full outfit together themselves. Be sure to ...
  7 hours ago

• A gift well received

  
  Dedric Mauriac — Authority: 418
  Matthew Kidomen got a copy of my touch-based piano today. He thanked me for a “working” piano after he opened it at a sandbox. He expected to just see a regualr SL piano that would play it’s own music. He seemed pretty surprised and amazed that it was a real keyboard with working keys. His last words were ...
  8 hours ago

• Barbee store

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 170
  Esta vez buscando un sombrero que no encontré llegue a un negocio que no conocía “Barbee” me llamo la atención porque casi todo lo que se vende son en dos colores: Blanco y negro, me encanto este conjunto con holanes y diamantes, aunque si no es propiamente una prenda de invierno, creo que va fantástica para ...
  9 hours ago

• Special Holiday @ Hucci

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 170
  Linden Lab and XStreetSL have a special category for Winter items called Winterfest.  I created this outfit with Winter and the Holidays in mind. A soft velvet belted bodysuit with a velvet fur trim and a dash of showgirl in the back. Available on all layers L$250, a vailable on Xstreet only.
  10 hours ago

• Ogg Vorbis Audio Streaming into Second Life

  
  Second Life: Music, DJs, Nightlife, Art, and Creativity — Authority: 129
  Ogg Vorbis Audio Streaming *finally* comes to Second Life! by AntoniusMisfit of " A Misfits Virtual Life "   Yesterday, the latest release candidate build of the Snowglobe viewer was released with relatively little fanfare. But for Second Life residents who use Linux as their operating system of choice, ...
  11 hours ago

• Siren Synapse in sick city

  
  Torley Lives — Authority: 420
  Siren Synapse in sick city
  13 hours ago

• Thursday in Information Literacy Week in SL

  
  Information Literacy Weblog — Authority: 125
  Today there is an orientation event, but this is now full. There are ongoing exhibitions as follows. The pictures are of the HIV and health literacy exhibits. HIV Testing and Information Literacy Karuna Island is the Second Life sim devoted to celebrating the lives of those dealing with HIV/AIDS and making ...
  13 hours ago

• Meta Magic Studio to Close Second Life sims

  
  Lost in Bananaverse — Authority: 113
  Last night Meta Magic Studio came to a tough decision, we could no longer keep supporting our four simulators in Second Life due to a lack of revenue.  While we still believe in Second Life and the opportunities it presents, we can not just keep shelling out money to Linden Lab without clients.  And currently [...]
  13 hours ago

• around | Bentham Forest

  
  Ana Lutetia inSL — Authority: 476
  Discover the secrets of Bentham Forest, wander & explore the dark foreboding landscape (quests spooky evil scary eerie creepy art fantasy spirits halloween horror) Forest by Andrek Lowell, Integrated works by Lauren Bentham more after the cut :: around | Bentham Forest © AnaLu for .Ana Lutetia. , ...
  13 hours ago

• around | Bentham Forest

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 170
  Discover the secrets of Bentham Forest, wander & explore the dark foreboding landscape (quests spooky evil scary eerie creepy art fantasy spirits halloween horror) Forest by Andrek Lowell, Integrated works by Lauren Bentham more after the cut :: around | Bentham Forest © AnaLu for .Ana Lutetia. , ...
  13 hours ago

• To Write Love…

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 170
  In Pushbutton Skolnick’s profile under her first life tab it says: “l et’s see you do one thing as graceful as sylvia plath… ” I don’t think that kind of grace exists anymore. It’s a marriage of coincidence that I happened to just finish reading The Bell Jar for the first time and received word about ...
  14 hours ago

• around | 100Limite

  
  Ana Lutetia inSL — Authority: 476
  It’s nice when you don’t have to leave your own sim to find a beautiful place to visit in-world. Thanks to Summer Wardhani , we now have an Autumn/Halloween area in the sim. I am using the amazing WindLight preset by Tesla Miles . more after the cut :: around | 100Limite © AnaLu for .Ana ...
  15 hours ago

• around | 100Limite

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 170
  It’s nice when you don’t have to leave your own sim to find a beautiful place to visit in-world. Thanks to Summer Wardhani , we now have an Autumn/Halloween area in the sim. I am using the amazing WindLight preset by Tesla Miles . more after the cut :: around | 100Limite © AnaLu for .Ana ...
  15 hours ago

• You Must Be Jesting

  
  Machinations of an Evil Tiny Kitty — Authority: 413
  Although unusual incidents are not out of the ordinary in my line of work, I felt I had to do something about the gent in my squiddy thing. I most certainly was not going to cut him out of my poor squiddy. I had to come up with a solution that would not harm the creature, so I prepared a laxative elixir in the hopes ...
  16 hours ago

• To Write Love on Her Arms

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 170
  To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery. *****To Write Love On Her Arms Day is a day ...
  16 hours ago

• Open University Virtual Education in Second Life

  
  Second Life Update — Authority: 433
  One interesting virtual education project is the Open University’s Innovative Experiment in Community. This virtual university is running several classes in the virtual world of Second Life. Long distance learning and community building are emphasized. Open University is based in the United Kingdom and ...
  17 hours ago

• Second Life’s classless server scheme

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 456
  Thus far, one of the key factors in Second Life performance has been the class of server hardware hosting the simulator. There are plenty of other non-server items that might contribute to perceived poor performance , of course, but server class versus server utilization is a pretty consistent factor. ...
  17 hours ago

• Second Life Jobs: Post your SL Job on SLENTRE FREE!

  
  SLentrepreneur Magazine — Authority: 110
  You can now post your Second Life job on SLENTRE’s new job board FREE!Just visit the SL job board and use the promo code SLINTRO to get unlimited free job listings.The job-o-matic job board asks for job location, you can use the Second Life company zip code, 94111. We also recommend using the term ‘Second [...]
  19 hours ago

• FarmVille: who knew boredom could be a cash crop? | Game Theory

  
  Technology: Games blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 139
  When is a game not a game? FarmVille, a "social game" available on Facebook, is dividing opinion across the web as users and pundits flock to criticise its somewhat cynical nature and praise its unprecedented success. Since its release in June, nearly 60 million people have downloaded the application – a similar ...
  19 hours ago

• Money for Nothing

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  "A can of whoop ass" is not just a figure of speech. Regular Facebook users will recognize it as a popular "virtual gift" in the networking sites Gift Shop. The price is 10 credits. Thats $1 in Earth money. For the same price, you can buy a rose, a slinky, a troll doll, or your favorite teams mascot - all virtual. ...
  20 hours ago

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