My.SecondLife Back Online. Recently the virtual world of Second Life lost their profiles, as my.secondlife.com, the site that housed all of the residents’ profiles went down for three days. What is my.secondlife? It is the social network site of the virtual world of Second Life. Residents can update their status,…
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Virtual News Bites: Second Life Hits the Reset button with Latest Update
In what Linden Lab calls 15 updates for the 15th Birthday, they announced many things we oldies find familiar. Among the new things like real-world adjustments to the Day-&-Night Cycle and better filters for the Marketplace you’ll find things like themed Tutorial Islands that new players will start at. For…
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Second Life Residents Begin Prep for the Virtual World’s Anniversary
Many virtual spaces have anniversaries, but none have more user input and contributions than Second Life. The Linden Lab created virtual world will have its 13th Anniversary in June 2016 and its residents have begun their preparations for the big celebrations. On their website they called for contributors such as sim builders,…
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The Lab Chat Series
Photograph by Torley Linden On 19th November, 2015, The Lab Chat hosted its first show with Jo Yardley and Saffia Widdershins. A total of 46 questions were asked in the forum. Here are a few pointers on: Land Pricing and Prim count Attracting new users Gateways Program Marketplace Beta Structure…
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SL11B ~ Get Your Selfies
In the last article Press Tour, I covered the major landing points of SL11B. In this one I will show you the loads of gifts you can gather. However, if you want to know more about the Live performances going on you may look at the SL Community Blog. Each individual exhibit…
Read MoreTorch Top 5, week of Oct 7th
5) RockStar Games Launches Updates for Grand Theft Auto Online Following the recent release of the multiplayer version of Rockstar’s new Grand Theft Auto game, GTA FIve, players were met with several bugs and technical issues which have now been fixed by an update to the game. According to a…
Read MoreSecond Life News: Linden Labs Offers New Prices For Education & Nonprofits Institutions
Linden Labs have announced an update to their pricing for Educational and nonprofits Institutions. The news came via Second Life’s Community blog, this week (July 24th 2013). In the early days of Second Life, it was a prime location for Education and Non Profit institutions offering a way for users…
Read MoreLinden Labs CEO Rod Humble on The Drax Files
The Drax Files just released their latest video and it features Linden Labs CEO Rod Humble. Linden Labs is the creator of Second Life.
Read MoreSpring Days: Day 2 Linden Realms
The second day of spring finds you walking through a bright and colourful forest. On your travels you find yourself picking up crystals of different colours. There is a rumble that seems to be coming from behind you… and just as you turn… This is Linden Realms, Second Life’s very…
Read MoreSecond Life on Steam?
According to a community post by Linden Labs, the developers of Second Life have been working on making the virtual world available via online gaming platform Steam in a bid to make it more accessible to gamers. For those of you who aren’t familiar with them, Steam is an online…
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