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…
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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…
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
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 They've been replaced by Twitter and Facebook – in the news at least.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 …
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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. …
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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&…
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Friday, September 25, 2009
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…
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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…
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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 …
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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…
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Friday, November 21, 2008
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…
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