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

  
  Technology: Games blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 139
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• 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. ...
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• Grim Bros at Slaughter City

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 170
  Cutea Benelli is a true innovator. She is clever, whimsical, bright as the sun and produces some of the most curious oddities in Second Life. I was totally happy to see that she now is part of the Slaughter City shops. Grim Bros , Cutea’s shop, is an ALL INCLUSIVE experience. You can find EVERYTHING there! ...
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• FANGdasFREEBIE :)

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 170
  ::ZinGZanGZunG presents:: wie ging das nochmal „über sieben brücken sollst du gehen…?“ hier müsst ihr nur über eine! und ich würde sagen, es lohnt sich denn rechts und links findet ihr einige DOLLAR- und FREEBIES die von ein paar der designer, dort auf der sim, für euch hinterlegt wurden. und wenn ihr ...
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• Eternity Brides and Seldom Blue - Mia gowns and a great deal!

  
  Stella's — Authority: 118
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• interview | Ana Lutetia

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 170
  Second Life name : Ana Lutetia RezDay : 11/11/2006 more after the cut :: interview | Ana Lutetia © AnaLu for .Ana Lutetia. , 2009. | Permalink | No comment | info on blog advertising click here . Tags: AnaLu
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• Eternity Brides & Seldom Blue – Mia gowns and a great deal!

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 170
  Eternity Brides &  Seldom Blue has a fantastic deal for you all in the form of the new Mia line .  Mia is comprised of 3 different flexi prim skirt lengths and a beautifully lush floral texture. The Mia gown set in Red is currently on sale for only 100L and the blue is only 1L! There’s also word that ...
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• New Release -Find Ash

  
  YABU SIM — Authority: 106
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• Vanity Universe Skinfair 2009 —- Care International Fund-Raiser Items Part 3

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 170
  Vanity Universe Skinfair 2009 —- Care International Fund-Raiser Items Part 3 The Skinfair 2009 is open ! Donations for the aid organization “Care” will be collected during this event. 50 % of the rental revenues will be donated to Care,as well as the designer items sold via the ” Care vendors” I ...
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• [ h a i r ] My Picks from Vignette

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 170
  This is a quick post to show you my picks from Vignette .  As I mentioned in my earlier blog , Rachel Boram from Vignette has decided to offer all of her hair styles for free.  There are a number of styles, but here are my favorites from the bunch.  These are quite unique, a nice addition to my big collection of ...
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• Happy Veterans Day

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 170
  Hug a hero, today, and say thank you to all the men and women of the armed services who have proudly worn the uniform and defended your country. Today is Veterans Day in the United States, Remembrance Day (not to be confused with Remembrance Sunday ) in the United Kingdom, and Armistice Day in other ...
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• Upcoming Event: Metanomics and the Virtue of Forgetting

  
  MixedRealities — Authority: 129
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• Got time for two lives?

  
  Baptists Today Blogs — Authority: 118
  Heres a new approach to a long-distance interview: the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) reported Nov. 9 that academic advisors at Pennsylvania State University are now required to schedule at least two hours per week for meetings with students in the virtual world of Second Life . As if ...
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• Winter Comes to Mystery

  
  The Secondlife Newspaper — Authority: 426
  Winter came to the Mystery sim recently, the scenery now sporting a snowy look. And on Sunday Nov 8, they had their first big weekend live music event to celebrate. Debi Latte sang to the dancers at the Heart of Mystery riverboat club. To read more, Click Here in Community .
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• late at night

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 170
  Blunote outfit : @ http://slurl.com/secondlife/Isla%20Corallo/78/51/1494 Boots : @ Metronome Hair : @ Fri day
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• Symphony Skins

  
  Virtually Dressed — Authority: 116
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• AM Radio Waves In Space

  
  cyberloom — Authority: 98
  Sky and desert AM Radio’s installation of satellite dishes has closed. Thanks to the NPIRL group notice from Bettina Tizzy I knew the exhibit was about to vanish away so I flew over to the location to grab a few final hour photos. Satellite dishes and jeep by AM Radio Dusk in the desert Listening to ...
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• The Best News is SuperNews!

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
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• *Love Soul* Pre-Christmas Items on SALE!!

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 170
  The SALE ITEMS are marked under the Pink Neon Box which are 50% off  UNTIL November 11th!!! Also there are 2 Freebies on the counter desk which are  2 Baby Reindeer teddy bears and the 2nd gift a Mini Creame colored Reindeer Shoulder pal!! Landmark: ...
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• Leaked test feedback offers insights into Linden Lab design processes

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Back, just before Halloween, a Linden Lab staffer accidentally sent an email intended for internal circulation to a mailing list containing quite a number of Second Life users. We were sent a copy a few minutes later, and the email was widely circulated among developers of third-party Second Life viewers by ...
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