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Search Engine Watch October 9, 2010 Avril Korman |
Losing the Plot In Second Life? A Tinfoil Hat Theory About Linden Labs An unsubstantiated theory about Linden Labs & their virtual world platform |
Search Engine Watch October 23, 2010 Avril Korman |
Second Life Tinfoil Hat Theory Part 3: The Rise of the Vampire Bunnies Is monetization via social gaming part of Linden Lab's long-term plans for Second Life? |
Search Engine Watch October 16, 2010 Avril Korman |
View This: The Second Life Tinfoil Hat Theory, Part 2 More speculation over Linden Lab's plan for Second Life |
Search Engine Watch November 6, 2010 Avril Korman |
The Second Life Tinfoil Hat Theory Part 5: A Skylight Suddenly Appears (But Search is Still Broken.) Why has Linden Lab developed a browser based viewer for Second Life? |
Search Engine Watch February 12, 2011 Avril Korman |
Linden Lab Changes How it Communicates With Users -- To What End? The Lab's has rolled out changes designed to clean up the current mess that communications with the user base has become over the years. But there are also a lot of really pissed off people. Here's why. |
Search Engine Watch March 11, 2011 Avril Korman |
The Hydra: Privacy Problems Expand as Linden Lab Play Catch-up How the Lab's refusal to deal with overall issues of privacy in Second Life has come back to haunt them. |
Search Engine Watch January 14, 2011 Avril Korman |
Second Life: New Year, New CEO... Big Mess New Year, New CEO, New Problems: What thieves already know about the Name Game. |
Search Engine Watch December 4, 2010 Avril Korman |
The Revenue Stream: or, "You gonna pay for that porn, boy?" How Second Life is potentially changing how it makes money via content (or at least trying to fool people into thinking they are). |
Search Engine Watch July 17, 2010 Avril Korman |
Sex, Money, Fame & Glamour in Second Life Second Life allows users to do things that would be physically impossible, logistically difficult, and/or financially prohibitive in real life, so people can explore these ideas safely, with little to no restriction on their creativity. |
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2011 Avril Korman |
Back to Basics: Linden Lab Releases a Basic Viewer Linden Lab has released a new viewer with stripped down capabilities for new users. What does this mean for the platform? |
Search Engine Watch November 20, 2010 Avril Korman |
Second Life Tinfoil Hat Theory, Part 6: The Search For A Better Search Engine How users gamed the search engine and why search is critical to Second Life. |
Search Engine Watch February 19, 2011 Avril Korman |
Spies, Lies & Cold Hard Cash: Second Life Erupts In a War Over Privacy The issue of privacy -- how it's maintained, stolen, disseminated, put up for sale, and ignored -- has caused something akin to open warfare across the Second Life grid this week, pitting content creators, consumers, and coders against one another. |
Search Engine Watch November 24, 2010 Avril Korman |
Gods and Monsters: The Technology Gap and The Service Triangle in Second Life How Second Life is coping with elements outside of their control, and how content creators need to adapt. |
Search Engine Watch March 5, 2011 Avril Korman |
Second Life Vs RedZone Saga: The Symptoms & The Cure Why Linden Lab needs strict privacy policies and security controls. |
Search Engine Watch May 6, 2011 Avril Korman |
Security and Responsibility on the Virtual Frontier Are we expecting too much of Linden Lab in regards to security and protection from fraud and IP theft, as well as other types of criminal activity. |
Search Engine Watch January 21, 2011 Avril Korman |
Linden Lab Forces 2.0 Upgrade By Crippling Search on Second Life The clock starts ticking for third party viewers. |
Search Engine Watch February 26, 2011 Avril Korman |
The Bitter Harvest: The Redzone Saga Continues (Linden Lab Has a Problem on Its Hands) At first glance, it may seem like changes to the community standards solve Second Life privacy concerns. But they don't -- at least not right away, and without additional measures. |
Search Engine Watch April 9, 2011 Avril Korman |
More Bounce to the Ounce: Avatar Body Physics Come to Second Life Linden Lab has released a new viewer feature, allowing for greater realism in avatars by adding bounce and jiggle to body parts. Aside from the obvious, what does this mean? |
Inc. January 2009 Nitasha Tiku |
Update Linden Lab is still going through some real-world growing pains. |
Search Engine Watch December 11, 2010 Avril Korman |
Virtuality & Mortality: Who Owns The Online Content We Create After We Die? Laws beginning to recognize virtual property as part of estate planning. |
Search Engine Watch April 30, 2011 Avril Korman |
Linden Lab Is About To Change Marketplace... Again. Linden Lab begins beta testing of a new inventory and delivery system for Marketplace. |
PC World May 21, 2007 Dan Tynan |
Traveling the Web's Third Dimension My avatar, my self: Second Life shows us the future of the 3D Web. |
BusinessWeek May 1, 2006 |
Virtual Land, Real Money Second Life is an online world where a savvy avatar can make a bundle. Its best known "land" developer explains how. |
Reason June 2008 Wagner James Au |
Virtually Free The garish, skyscraper-sized billboards that subscribers to Second Life had learned to tolerate as part of their three-dimensional landscape are no more. |
Search Engine Watch July 3, 2010 Avril Korman |
Virtuatecture in Second Life: What Makes a House a House? There is a strong architectural community within Second Life, largely populated by real life architects, interior and architectural designers, who are using SL to explore how architecture and design function within virtual and real world environments. |
Search Engine Watch July 10, 2010 Avril Korman |
Of Fashion and Sociology: The Psychology of Second Life One way we can peer into the psychology of Second Life, a world with no physical consequences, is to look at its fashion industry. |
Entrepreneur March 2007 Sara Wilson |
Unreal World The creator of today's hottest virtual land offers a glimpse into his reality. |
Search Engine Watch January 29, 2011 Avril Korman |
Beast Wars: The Bunny People vs. The Horse People A Second Life dispute over breedable virtual creatures might sound silly, but it has some very high stakes and involves some very serious money. |
CFO October 1, 2007 Alan Rappeport |
Second Life's John Zdanowski The CFO of Second Life explains what the online virtual world is all about, and how his real-world company measures and rewards employee performance with the Love Machine. |
Search Engine Watch October 2, 2010 Jonathan Allen |
9 Reasons Why it Might Be Time For Marketers to Value Virtual Goods Convergence of web, mobile and TV may create stronger emotional connections between audiences. |
InternetNews November 24, 2006 Michael Hickins |
Get a Life: Enterprises Eye Potential For Second Life Enterprises are dipping their toes in the waters of virtual worlds, but may have to wait to see the benefits. |
PC Magazine March 8, 2011 Chloe Albanesius |
Do Facebook Comments Signal the Death of Online Anonymity? An update to Facebook's Comments plug-in has some concerned. |
InternetNews June 10, 2009 Michelle Megna |
Facebook Users to Get Personalized URLs Facebook's new personalized usernames and URLs could be a boost to online marketers, but is it a lost opportunity for the social networking site? |
Insurance & Technology February 1, 2007 Katherine Burger |
The Buzz About Linden Lab's Second Life Raises Possibilities for Insurance Companies The media buzz about Linden Lab's Second Life online digital world raises commerce and customer possibilities for insurance companies and other financial institutions. |
PC Magazine March 20, 2009 Matthew D. Sarrel |
I Stole My Friend's Identity If you've not yet jumped into the great abyss of social networking, then you haven't created any accounts that can be compromised, and you're safe, right? Not! |
The Motley Fool October 24, 2008 Tim Beyers |
One Disruptive Growth Company Cash. Lots of cold, hard moola is making its way into online virtual worlds. Media companies and venture capital firms have pumped $493 million into Second Life wannabes during 2008. |
BusinessWeek May 1, 2006 |
My Virtual Life A journey into a place in cyberspace where thousands of people have imaginary lives. Some even make a good living. Big advertisers are taking notice. |
AskMen.com Phil Helm |
5 Things You Didn't Know About Second Life Maybe you've tried and liked Second Life and maybe you haven't; either way there are surely a few things about the virtual world that may surprise you. |
PC Magazine August 25, 2011 Jill Duffy |
How to Back Up Your Facebook Data With an impending Anonymous threat to 'kill' Facebook, users might want to back up their Facebook photos, messages and so on. It's doable, but it's harder than you'd think. |