Making money isn't any easier in Second Life than in real life, but in a world without hunger at least there aren’t any starving artists.
Social media brings lots of intellectual property rights into question - or maybe better stated - contention. Marketers work long hours, have sleepless nights, and spend the combined GDP of several mid-size countries on getting customers to embrace their brands...
The real world has been demanding in the past two weeks. It makes me just a tiny bit grumpy, actually, to not have been able to post as often as usual to comment about an ever growing number of Second...
Denmark’s Saxo Bank plans to offer Second Life residents the ability to manage their real-life financial portfolios from within the virtual world, and may eventually create a market to trade the Linden dollar against real-world currencies.
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 [...]
A collection of photos of Calvin and Hobbes snowmen in the real world next to their hand-drawn equivalents.
Tagly is a Web2.0 app that allows you to tag real-world items for identification purposes using an ESN barcode. This is handy for small business who want to track assets - or for personal assets regarding insuarnce claims, etc.
Those considering quitting... here's some food for thought.
"I just bugged you. I shot a bug and it's now stuck to you. It's very small and almost unselectable. [An] object scan would show a object. But you would have a hell of a time finding it."-- With the influx of money from real world companies and entrepeneurs in SL, surveillance bugs "are now being used widely for industrial espionage."
A UK consulting company is touting the benefits of Second Life for eliminating real-world meetings. “Within five years we believe that virtual offices will be established as a genuine alternative for many businesses. Within 15 years the face of work will be unrecognisable,'’ says Peter Dunkley of depo consulting. The company had their Second Life [...]
