http://www.second-life-blogger.com second life news, second life reports, second life blog, second life blogger Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:50:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Telstra’s decision to pull the plug on its presence in virtual world Second Life was a pragmatic one based on the small number of customers who visited the Big Pond island, the Adtech conference was told. Telstra: We pulled out of Second Life to follow our customers Big Pond ... http://www.second-life-blogger.com/2010/03/19/a-second-life-decision/ Linden Lab, which develops and operates Second Life introduced a new beta version of its desktop viewer software on Tuesday, the first big upgrade in many years. Will the new software help bring about a renaissance of the once-trendy service? You remember Second Life. It's a virtual world, a three-dimensional environment ... http://www.second-life-blogger.com/2010/03/15/second-life-introduces-new-desktop-viewer/ Have you ever wanted to get away from your hectic life, but lack the time or money to be able to? Just about everyone I know has had this issue at one time or another. One company has come up with a solution for this need, and has spawned a ... http://www.second-life-blogger.com/2010/03/08/classes-get-second-life-online/ Imagine a world where, instead of walking around Penn’s campus, you could fly like an eagle, or instead of merely observing the ducks and koi at the BioPond, you could dive in and swim with the fishes. What if you found out this world really does exist? Not in real life, ... http://www.second-life-blogger.com/2010/03/05/penns-campus-flourishes-in-second-life/ Almost every week for the last few years, it seems, I've gotten a press release or a pitch touting some company's great new Facebook games network or kids' virtual world. And why not? Companies like Zynga and Playfish are making money hand over fist with their collections of massively popular social ... http://www.second-life-blogger.com/2010/03/01/farmville-a-threat-to-second-life/ Second Life blogfather Wagner James Au weighs in on Viewer 2.0 He loves it -- or at least he loves parts of it -- but he says it won't drive Second Life mainstream adoption. He's right. Second Life has several barriers to mass adoption. Ease of use is only one ... http://www.second-life-blogger.com/2010/02/26/barriers-to-using-second-life/ Today Richard Garriott, former part-time astronaut and founder of Origin, announced his latest company: Portalarium. Portalarium, according to the site, was founded in September 2009 to develop and publish " online social games, virtual worlds and related services and products." There's not much to the company publicly yet, but its initial ... http://www.second-life-blogger.com/2010/02/22/portalarium-aiming-at-a-more-mainstream-second-life/ The platform, which has received both praise and criticism from journalists in the past, enables users to create and sell content to other users. And indeed they do, if the figures are anything to go by. Arguably the most popular virtual world out there, Second Life’s users have created billions ... http://www.second-life-blogger.com/2010/02/15/a-second-life-valuation/ If you're a marketer who has steered clear of Twitter, your (non)strategy may be paying off. It's possible that this Twitter thing may just take care of itself. In the middle of last year, Twitter's growth slowed from 7.8 million new users a month to 6.2 million, according to a recent ... http://www.second-life-blogger.com/2010/02/08/comparing-second-life-to-twitter/ A Frank Lloyd Wright Museum has been in operation in Second Life for six months [SLURL]. Now, though, it's officially working in partnership with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation under the new name of the Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum, incorporating in the U.S., and seeking official non-profit status. ... http://www.second-life-blogger.com/2010/02/01/frank-lloyd-wright-museum-and-second-life/