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LATEST HEADLINES Second Life Musician Turns Real Life Recording Artist FEATURED ARTICLE Virtual Worlds Conference 2007 "The Future of Media
SL PRESS RELEASE Intel Chief Strategist Chris Thomas to Keynote SDForum Emerging Tech SIG Meeting  09.26.07, 8:00 AM SLT SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- SDForum, Silicon Valley’s leading source of information and education in the technology community, today announced Chris Thomas, Chief Strategist of World Ahead at Intel Corporation, will keynote the SDForum Emerging Tech SIG meeting November 14th online and in Palo Alto. more... GIGS' CORNER Funding Second Life Open Source Development
TECHNOLOGY 3D Mind Mapping of Virtual Worlds The Virtual Information Technology Project  Avatar Butch Dae is George E. Kurtz III in real life, and has a background in Integrated Systems Management and IT Architectural design. He has used decision support tools such as mind maps for years more... ENVIRONMENT Sustainability Grrls 
Sage and Shannon Truss are unassuming avatars in Second Life (SL). But behind the jeans, t-shirts, and boots loom a couple of powerhouses. In real life, both women are VPs for technology and engineering organizations. On the side they are working on a hush-hush-on-the-QT project called Simmunity, a new virtual world architecture. But their collective power—and the power of their educational non-profit SL organization, the Avatar Action Center—comes from a passion for social and environmental consciousness, economic more... COMMUNITY Sun Microsystems' TRAFFIC REPORT 
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Congratulations to our readers in London! You are currently in first place—but watch out for Santee coming up close behind, followed by New York and Portland. We have Vancouver BC and San Francisco in a neck-in-neck tie for fifth place. There’s only one month left before we announce which city will be the grand prize winner. Remember—every visit from more... |
SPECIAL SECTION Big Media Plays In the Virtual World  "Who are the players and what are they doing? 2007 may be remembered as the year that big media officially arrived in the virtual world. In many ways it feels like the dot.com boom all over again, with companies acquiring existing technology and expertise rather than develop it inhouse. There’s money being spent and fortunes to be made for those who have the right thing, at the right place, at the right time. Companies are looking for a good fit to complement existing projects or to extend their reach and gain a strategic position in an emerging marketplace. more... Contents Who are they and what are they doing? Serving up nice, fresh crime in the virtual world OnRez Viewer Finding your way quickly in Second Life iReport comes to Second Life An imaginative and playful world Social network bridges gap between 2D and 3D Web COMMUNITY Sold to the  Interview with Auction Hammerer DIEGOLAND — “2500 bid, now 2700 to Champion, now 2700, will you give me 3000? Do I hear 3000? 3500 to Pollywog. Now 3500 going once, will ya give me 3700? Going twice, do I hear 3700? Sold to Pollywog for 3500.” So went the patter of gray-bearded auctioneer Auction Hammerer on the stage of Diegoland’s fine replica of Spreckel’s Organ Pavilion in virtual San Diego’s Balboa Park. This patter, also known as “chant,” helps the auctioneer sell an average of sixty items per hour, keeps the auction moving, creates excitement, and makes the auction environment entertaining. more... LAW & ORDER  Anatomy of ID thieves claim When I checked my e-mail this morning, I found an urgent message from the IRS that said I was due an income tax refund of $192.81. I was instructed to click a link to access the tax refund form and also warned—in rather peculiar English—that if I made any “deliberate wrong inputs,” I would be “criminally pursued and indicated.” Although I hadn’t yet had my morning cup of coffee, I realized that it was highly unlikely that the IRS owed me any money, or that they would close such a notice with, “Regards, The Internal Revenue Service. more... POLITICS Mike Gravel's Interview with  This is Pollywog Gardenvale reporting from Mike Gravel’s campaign headquarters in Second Life. For twelve years from 1969-1981, Mike Gravel represented the state of Alaska. During that time, the former New York taxi cab driver played a key role in ending the military draft. He is the one who—at great personal risk—released the contents of the Pentagon Papers and exposed a pattern of government secrecy and corruption for all the world to see. more... ART 3D Art Swimming in the swirling skies
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