Archive for January, 2007

Second Life : The A-Z Guide
Friday, January 26th, 2007

SL is the talk of the town at Davos this week. Simon Usborne has pulled together Second Life : The A-Z guide in today’s Independent. No idea how long the articles will remain available before disappearing behind the firewall. At the time of writing this post SL residents stand at 2,938,614. After this weeks media [...]

New Awards for Philip Rosedale
Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Tateru Nino posts over on Second Life Insider that Linden Lab founder Philip Rosedale has won two awards of late. The first a Cullinane & Green EDGIE award and the second Innovate Forum 2006 Innovator of the Year. Both are inaugural awards from groups I had not previously heard of before. Regardless it is always [...]

New residents for Virtual Worlds
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Lots of conversations this morning about yesterdays BBC announcement to create a Virtual World for its CBBC communities of 7-12 year olds. Virtual Worlds such as the SL Teen Grid, There and Virtual Laguna Beach are already firmly established for teenage communities worldwide. CBBC’s initiative follows in the pioneering footsteps of Belgium’s national broadcaster VRT [...]