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Renault F1 gears up for Second Life

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Bored at the non-GP weekends? Why not stepping by the ING Renault F1 Team in SL! The space is fairlly simple and straight in its design, but in motorsports it’s all about efficiency anyway. ;) But it does feature its own racetrack where you can test your driving skills around the island. Not F1 unfortunately, but cart can be fun too! The cart and helmet (yes, it’s MANDATORY in SL as well) are provided as freebies at the track.

A fully equipped media centre with giant tv-screens for press conferences and other events also also at your service. Thus there is no excuse for missing any more motorsport action.

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Review: “Second Life” - The manual

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Second Life Cover

For some it is just a game, for others the future of the Internet. You go shopping, meet new people, big corps open subsidiaries, politicians hold press conferences, there is sex and even more sex - and everyone wants to be a part of all that. Just like it was the real world.

Christian Stöcker, editor at Germany’s news authority Spiegel Online, joined in and explored the fascinating 3-D world:

He indulged with his avatar “Sponto” in cyber-acquaintances, virtual real-estate shopping and many other exciting adventures. On his journey, he put together a very useful 101: How to move from A to B? Where do I find what? How can I design my SL-world? Is it worth it? And where does it get dirty or even dangerous?

In SL every inhabitant reinvents himself according to his own wishes and lives a life he has ever dreamed of - without rules or boundaries. You want to fly? An oceanside villa with jacuzzi? Casual sex avery day? Or lead your own megacorp? No problemo in virtual wonderland. Second Life offers a fresh restart for everyone.

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SecondLife

Friday, May 25th, 2007

SecondLifeThe correct way to write Second Life is in two seperate Words! There are other ways of spelling /writing about Second Life that habe esthablished through the web and blogosphere, “SecondLife” in one word probably being the most common. Others are “2nd Life” or very, very short just “SL”.

And what’s your shortcut or nickname for SecondLife?
Let us know.

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New version of SL starts today!

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Second Life will be updated to viewer 1.16.0. Thus the grid won’t be available between 3pm and 9 pm (CET). One of the new highlights will be the indroduction of Sculpted Prisms and the long awaited bugfixes for group IM and the infamous “inventory lost”.

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Lonely Planet Guide for Second Life?

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Well, no! Lonely Planet are the best traveling guides around whether you are a backpacker or not but until now they only have books for real contries. But there are several other travel guides to this terrific new virtual world called second life. So while there is no Lonely Planet SL issue we’ll just stick to these. ;-)

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NBA Headquarters opens in Second Life

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

The National Basketball Association NBA announced on May 1st the launch of the NBA Headquarters in Second Life. The new virtual destination is developed with The Electric Sheep Company, featuring a variety of innovative and interactive NBA elements such as the T-Mobile Arena, broadband video of classic NBA games and the NBA Store, the NBA Jam Session Path of the 50 Greatest NBA Players.

NBA Store in Second Life

NBA Store currently open in Second Life

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Lang Lang to debut his new album in SL

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

On May 18, the world-famous pianist Lang Lang will hold the first world premiere for classical music in Second Life. He will present his first ever Beethoven Album and thus strengthen his reputation as one of the most innovative artists of his time.

Lang Lang: Dragon Songs (Plus DVD)

Lang Lang: Dragon Songs (Plus DVD)

The recital will start today, May 15 at 20:00h (CET), in the Open Air Arena on „Pangaea Island“: the virtul platform of Universal Music’s Classics & Jazz division.

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Pixelpark / Elephant Seven release White Paper about economic value of Second Life

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Virtual worlds gain interest in the marketing departments of corporates. Is this a hype or a trend? How does the market look like? What are the economic mechanics of this platform?
Answers to these and more questions can be found in the White Paper “Second Life und Business in virtuellen Welten” of Pixelpark / Elephant Seven.

White Paper

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Gambling in ‘Second Life’ could be a topic for the FBI

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

The U.S. government has not decided yet, if virtual gambling in Second Life is Legal or not. In the meantime FBI investigators are checking out Second Life’s online casinos on an invitation of Linden Lab - the virtual world’s creator. Gambling is one way to own Linden Dollars.

Ginsu Yoon, currently vice president for business affairs said: “We have invited the FBI several times to take a look around in Second Life and raise any concerns they would like, and we know of at least one instance that federal agents did look around in a virtual casino.”

Sexuality on Second Life could be another topic, that draws interest of the FBI.

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Latest Statistics

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

Here are the latest statistics on second life:
> Residents Logged-In During Last 7 Days: 475,769
> Total Residents: 6,240,591
> Square Meters Auctioned in April 2007 : 36,739,872
> Islands Owned (End of April 2007): 6,557

land owned

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