$1m is spent a day in second life.
CBS just took part in a funding round for electric sheep.
monster.com is one of a few recruiting organisations to build virtual recruiting offices in SL
childline is setting up a help community for SL
there are more bands playing live gigs in SL than you can shake a stick at.
the second life liberation army (SLLA), a radical rebel army, seeks to replace the totalitarian “rule” of Linden Labs with a democracy.
With claims none less than being an ‘in-world military wing of a national liberation movement’, the SLLA has been busy setting-off virtual atomic bomb explosions in Second Life.
The bombs explode in hazy white balls, blotting out portions of the screen, and more often than not blasting nearby avatars, which are essentially animated virtual world proxies of residents of Second Life.
interesting to read this:
“There’s a lot to be desired in the current (Second Life) search, quite a lot,” said Tony Walsh, the editor of Clickable Culture, a blog about virtual worlds and other online cultures. “We need a Google for Second Life, something that works quickly and produces intelligent results.”
Some might wonder how important search needs to be in a virtual world. But as the number of Second Life stores, places and objects explodes, it is becoming crucial that users be able to find what they need without trying keyword after keyword. And while that dynamic is more true today than ever, many people believe the search system has been insufficient for years.
i figure there had to be religion in there somewhere, and there is.
oh, and you get superheros, too.
Second Life has the Big Six, community sins that it lays out: intolerance, harassment, assault, indecency, disturbing the peace and disclosing real-life information beyond what’s volunteered on a resident’s profile.
Breaking any of the Big Six can mean suspension or, with repeated violations, banishment from the Second Life community.
Mark Latture knows the Big Six well. The Columbus computer programmer is a member of the Justice League, a group started by residents in Second Life that enforces the Big Six and responds to help calls.
If someone is getting “griefed,” or harassed, they can send out a message and one of the Justice League members will appear. Violations are reported by using an abuse reporter tool, and Linden Lab investigates the abuse reports.
interesting choice of fundamental rules.
