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New York City is the most popular travel destination in the world. The city's tourism office estimated that 46 million people visited New York City in 2007. New Yorkers also like to travel, therefore 8 million New Yorkers and people working in New York City could be easily added to this obscene number of people who try to get to or from New York City's airports (JFK, La Guardia and Newark)

Now Benjamin Linden, the new usability expert at Linden Lab is now also holding office hours. They are held at his office every Tuesday and Thursday from 10-11am SLT (except April 13th and 17th).Topics will be interface design, usability, new features and what else might come to his mind. So come and discuss!

Men stand further away from other men in Second Life just as in the real world, according to a team of researchers who spent countless hours measuring interpersonal distance (that’s IPD for you social-science types) among avatars.They also claim that men maintain less eye contact than woman, although I’m not sure I buy that one [...]

Rob Linden is the person responsible for the community management for the Second Life Viewer Open Source project. His background is in Open Source and business as he was working for 9 years at Real Networks in the open source department. He thus knows all the licensing issues quite well. He now is working [...]

Best hotel picks for New York City. Use this as a starting point to quickly choose the best hotel for your next trip to New York City.Peninsula New YorkGreat for business travelers as well as families with children (it has a pool). Many of the luxurious rooms in this 1905 Art Nouveau building overlook Fifth Avenue. Nightly rates from $400.