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Category Archives: Virtual Worlds

Second Life’s Slide? Hard to Tell Yet…

The official line is that Linden Labs and their virtual world brain child, Second Life, are growing and healthy. They're also laying off almost a third of their staff – cutting customer suppose…

Virtual Worlds Fade… Except for Second Life

Venture Beat had an interesting piece recently on how virtual worlds are doing these days.

Virtual worlds were a big deal for a while. Venture Beat points out that there was a time when over 200…

Is Your Business in Second Life?

Virtual worlds are no longer hot news items. They've been replaced by Twitter and Facebook – in the news at least. But they haven't gone away.

Inc.com recently pointed out that prototyping …

No Recession in Second Life

Let's hope that Second Life is an economic indicator for the real world.

VentureBeat says that the economy of Second Life (the leading virtual world in cyberspace) grew a whopping 65% in 2009. …

Metaplace: Your (Virtual) Universe is Ending

San Diego, Calif.-based Metaplce is pulling the plug on 70 thousand user-created virtual worlds on January 1st.

While Metaworld was one of the best platforms for user-created virtual worlds, it&…

Second Life’s Linden Labs Faces a Class Action Suit

The Metaverse Journal reported earlier this month a class action law suit that's been filed against Linden Labs, the owner of Second Life.

The premise of the lawsuit is simple. People violate co…

Virtual Doctors?

Just when I thought I'd heard it all, this: CNN says that a medical school in London has a facility in Second Life where students "navigate a full-service hospital where they see patients, or…

A Red Light District for Second Life?

A number of sources (paidContent.org, the Inquisitr, the Metaverse Journal, Second Life: the Music…) are covering the recent decision by Linden Lab to crack down on adult content.

It may be summed …

Second Life Acquires Two Virtual World Shopping Sites

A number of sources (Second life: the Music…, Venture Beat, paidContent) are covering Linden Lab's acquisition of two virtual goods markets that sell items for the residents of its Second Life v…

One Less Virtual World… Google Closes Lively

The 3D virtual world Lively is being closed, according to .

Lively is Google's virtual world. It was just launched back in July, but the hype around it has died and it looks like Lively itself w…