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• Second Life Takes Virtual Reality Behind The Firewall at IBM, Navy

  BNET - 2009-11-04

  Linden Lab Nov. 4 launched Second Life Enterprise, a behind-the-firewall version of its 3D virtual world software. Linden Lab has loaded Second Life on a server for IBM, Northrup Grumman and the U.S. Navy to test in a beta. Second Life Enterprise includes LDAP integration, intranet-grade authentication and central access...

  Tags: Second Life, Linden Lab

• Guess Which Economy Doubled in Size Last Year

  BNET - 2009-09-23

  With the global economy in a slump, leaders from the world's top industrial powers are meeting in Pittsburgh to discuss ways to ramp up growth. In the meantime, investors keep scanning the planet for opportunities in a down market.  There's always China, whose economy the Asian Development...

  Tags: Second Life, Economy, Games, Virtual Reality, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies, Stefan Deeran

• Virtual Merchants Banned From Using Real Brands In Second Life

  PaidContent - 2009-08-12

  In Second Life, selling avatars that look like celebrities and apparel that mimics couture designs is big business—a mainstay of the world's $450 million dollar virtual economy. And if a brand or a celeb found out that someone was using their name to make money (like the avatar that...

  Tags: Second Life, Brand, Linden Lab, Branding, Marketing, E-Commerce, Entertainment, Gaming, Social Media, Virtual Worlds, Tameka Kee

• Widgets, Banner Ads Are Out: E-Commerce, Branded Entertainment Are In

  PaidContent - 2009-08-04

  As start-ups come to grips with the reality that the usual online advertising tools of banner ads and widgets won't keep the lights on even if the economy gets better, a few companies are significantly altering their business models. The WSJ profiles a few, like Slide, RockYou and Meez,...

  Tags: Second Life, Advertisement, Banner Advertisement, E-business, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Advertising, E-Commerce, Social Media, Avatars, Virtual Worlds, David Kaplan

• Advertising Police Arrive Inside Second Life

  BNET - 2008-12-03

  In a decision on a product advertised on billboards inside Second Life, the Electronic Retailing Self-Regulation Program found that PhotoBlocker Spray does not, unsurprisingly, make your real-life car invisible to police radar and traffic cameras. Second Life is the online virtual world where unemployed people have fake sex and...

  Tags: Second Life, Car, Advertisement, Camera, Traffic Camera, ERSP, Jim Edwards

• Gibson Guitar takes occupancy on Second Life Island

  - 2008-07-15

  INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-C1995-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Gibson Guitar Corporation Gibson, a musical instrument manufacturer founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1894 and headquartered in Nashville since 1984, will launch its Second Life presence with an inaugural concert by Bob Welch, the former Fleetwood Mac vocalist and guitarist. Second Life...

  Tags: Gibson Guitar Corp., Second Life

• Gibson Guitar takes occupancy on Second Life Island

  - 2008-07-15

  TELECOMWORLDWIRE-15 July 2008-Gibson Guitar takes occupancy on Second Life IslandC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Gibson Guitar Corporation Gibson, a musical instrument manufacturer founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1894 and headquartered in Nashville since 1984, will launch its Second Life presence with an inaugural concert by Bob Welch, the former...

  Tags: Gibson Guitar Corp., Second Life

• 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

• Aviva USA First to Launch Presence in Second Life Aimed at Life Insurance and Annuity Agents

  - 2008-06-06

  Island Developed as Venue for Agent Recruitment, Education and Training

  Tags: annuity, Aviva Plc., life insurance, Second Life

• Vollee Debuts Second Life on Mobile

  - 2008-06-03

  Vollee's Streaming Mobile Service Live Worldwide; Free Beta Application Available Now

  Tags: mobile, Second Life