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3 hrs ago | The Second Life Herald

Metaplace Worlds Now Embed Into Any Web Page

Second Life and Linden Lab are registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc. No infringement is intended.

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Related Topix: Virtual Worlds, Video Games, Startups, Marketing

23 hrs ago | TechCrunch

Does Anybody Still Use Second Life? And If So, How Much Is It Worth Today?

Analyst firm Next Up Research has published an extensive report on Linden Lab , the San Francisco company behind virtual world Second Life .

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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software

Mon Jun 29, 2009

The Second Life Herald

Sim Boundary White Line Fever - Bad Roads in Zindra

Second Life and Linden Lab are registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc. No infringement is intended.

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

The Second Life Herald

PhotoLife Drama In Second Life

Second Life and Linden Lab are registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc. No infringement is intended.

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Wed Jun 24, 2009

The Second Life Herald

Linden Lab Co-Founder Cory Ondrejka to Visit Metaplace

Given Cory's credentials as a co-founder of Linden Lab and creator of many core technologies in Second Life and his work in the digital music industry at EMI, the Metaplace event should be fascinating.

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Related Topix: Virtual Worlds, Video Games, Startups

Tue Jun 23, 2009

Scientific American

Avatar Acts: Why Online Realities Need Regulation

How much legal weight should actions in the virtual world carry back in the real one? For most people, the answer might be "none," but as online communities conduct actual financial transactions and draw in more participants, some legal experts think that it may be time to extend brick-and-mortar jurisprudence into the virtual realm.

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Related Topix: Virtual Worlds, Video Games, Startups, PC

Sun Jun 21, 2009

Freerepublic.com

Linden Lab forces Adult content into a different region in Second Life.{my title}

Later this year, parent company Linden Lab will create a standalone "continent" for adult content, and members who don't purchase private "land" will be asked to migrate there if they wish to partake in adult-related activities.

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Related Topix: Virtual Worlds, Video Games, Startups

Sat Jun 20, 2009

Terra Nova

The Soul of a New Regime: Thomas Malaby's Making Virtual Worlds

Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life, by our own Thomas Malaby, has its official release today, and the timing couldn't be better.

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Related Topix: Virtual Worlds, Video Games, Startups

The Second Life Herald

Mystery Inside Investor Sells Stake in Linden Lab

Someone unloaded their Linden Lab holdings - but who? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk With reports circulating that an individual investor's equity stake in the Lab had been sold to Stratim Capital, the rumor mill can be expected to go into overdrive speculating about exactly which insider sold their shares - and why.

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Related Topix: Startups

Fri Jun 19, 2009

PaidContent.org

Stratim Capital Buys Stake In Linden Lab

Late stage investment firm Stratim Capital has picked up an undisclosed stake in Second Life parent company Linden Lab - buying out one of the virtual world tech firm's existing investors .

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Related Topix: Startups, Venture Capital, Emerging Technology

Tue Jun 09, 2009

The Second Life Herald

Meerkat Viewer Runs Wild in Second Life - And Beyond

Is unleashed client a threat to Linden Lab supremacy? by Tenshi Vielle The long anticipated Meerkat viewer has been released for both Windows and Mac - and features radical goals such as cross grid access without a central authentication authority and cross grid content import/export - goals that may ultimately threaten Linden Lab's control this ...

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Related Topix: Startups

Tue Jun 02, 2009

The Click Heard Round the World

Virtual meeting with Claudia Linden at the Producers Institute at BAVC in San Francisco

I've been in San Francisco since Saturday participating in the awesome Producers Institute, organized by the Bay Area Video Coalition .

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Related Topix: Virtual Worlds, Video Games, Startups

Sun May 31, 2009

The Second Life Herald

Stroker Serpentine Slams Linden Lab for Sexbed Blacklist

We almost never blacklist by Asset-ID, It's dangerous -- Data Linden by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk A single Linden Lab staffer working after the Laba s California-based offices closed may have been responsible for the Second Life sexbed breakdown that rendered thousands of residentsa avatar animations temporarily impotent - a romantic ...

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Related Topix: Startups

Thu May 28, 2009

BBC

Virtual world designer wins gold

A woman who runs a virtual business park in cyberspace has been recognised by Second Life creator Linden Lab.

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Related Topix: Startups, Fife County, Scotland, World News, United Kingdom, Science / Technology, Virtual Reality

Wed May 20, 2009

GigaOM

Second Life Takes Aim at Skype

Second Life creator Linden Lab will announce on Wednesday that SL users have generated 15 billion voice minutes on their internal avatar-to-avatar VoIP service since the product was launched 18 months ago, and are now forecast to do 15 billion total voice minutes in 2009.

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Related Topix: Startups, Science / Technology, VoIP

Tue May 19, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Virtual pomp and circumstance

It is the college graduation season, but Texas State Technical College is taking credit for a first - hosting a graduation ceremony for the first known student to earn a certificate program taken entirely on the virtual world of Second Life.

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Related Topix: Startups, University of Texas at Austin

Jon Udell

Talking with Philip Rosedale about organizational dynamics

On this week's Innovators show I talked with Philip Rosedale about the ways in which Second Life, the virtual world, and Linden Lab, the real company, are laboratories for experimenting with social, economic, and organizational principles.

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Related Topix: Startups

Mon May 18, 2009

SYS-CON MEDIA

Linden Lab to Colocate Second Life Infrastructure at Terremark's NAP of the Capital Region

Terremark Worldwide, Inc. , a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced that Second LifeA developer Linden LabA has selected the Network Access Point of the Capital Region to colocate the critical IT infrastructure that brings to life the world's leading 3D virtual world environment.

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Related Topix: Startups, Telecom, IT Services, Science, Computer Science, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology

Thu May 07, 2009

The Plain Dealer

Case Western Reserve University and Second Life building a private virtual world for college

Students in Carolina Perera's Spanish language class don't need an airplane to visit Mexico, Spain or Colombia.

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Related Topix: Virtual Worlds, Video Games, Case Western Reserve University, Science / Technology, Virtual Reality, Startups, Cleveland, OH

The Second Life Herald

1st Quarter Second Life Economic Results In: QPC holding steady for now

Or at least, most of them. For as long as the Herald has been publishing the QPC, it has been based on an average of each quarter's total hours logged in per month.

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Related Topix: Startups

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