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• Google lets people create custom virtual realms

  - 2008-07-08

  SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Google has rolled out a challenge to virtual world giant Second Life with free software that lets people create their own online 3D worlds that can be embedded on websites and melded with other online functions. Lively by Google lets people place virtual "rooms" on...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, avatar, Google Inc., INTERNET, Second Life

• "Connected worlds".(Newsline)

  - 2007-12-01

  You may think one world, one life, is enough; but there is a host of avatars in Second Life who think two is better than one. And these Second Life avatars want to see photo exhibits, too, just like in the real world. You...

  Tags: avatar, Connected Corp., photograph, Second Life

• Keeping faith in Second Life

  - 2007-08-24

  SAN FRANCISCO AFP — It is a Friday evening in Second Life and Beth Odets lights Shabbat candles at Temple Beit Israel, which she created in the virtual world a year and a half ago. "Shabbat Shalom everyone!" Odets says in a typed instant message to animated figures standing...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, avatar, Second Life

• Canada seeks digital cops to catch digital thieves

  - 2007-07-21

  OTTAWA AFP — As criminals increasingly hijack digital technologies, police in Canada are turning to an unusual candidate pool for crime fighters: the virtual world of Second Life. "Policing has to reflect society, and as technology becomes more pervasive in society, we have to make sure that officers we...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, avatar, Canada, Second Life, technology

• Virtual terror strikes Second Life

  - 2007-02-24

  SAN FRANCISCO AFP — In an explosive display, virtual-world banes now mirror the havoc of the real one as terrorists have launched a bombing campaign in Second Life. People controlling animated avatar members of a self-proclaimed Second Life Liberation Army SLLA have set off computer-code versions of atomic bombs...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, avatar, Second Life

• Virtual world set up online for legislators in Congress

  - 2007-02-12

  When Rep. George Miller is "in-world," he teleports between continents and flies into the room. "And I have a waistline!" Miller joked. That would be his "avatar," a virtual rendition of the Martinez congressman in Second Life, a three-dimensional, online world where people, represented...

  Tags: avatar, Clear, Miller, Second Life, U.S. Congress

• Next avatar on Second Life: the Swedish taxman

  - 2007-01-31

  STOCKHOLM AFP — Swedes earning tax-free money on Internet games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life may have to think again after Swedish authorities said they were planning a clampdown. "We're not interested in ordinary gamers, 99 percent of them play for the sake of playing," Dag...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, avatar, FINANCE, Games, INTERNET, Second Life, Taxes

• Fantasy lives flourish in virtual world of Second Life

  - 2007-01-28

  SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Moments after being born in Second Life, Knut Graff rose into the sky, flew through a mountain and headed over an ocean to explore a virtual world that boasts nearly three million inhabitants. A second later, the neophyte crash landed in the sea. Fortunately, he...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, avatar, Games, Second Life