News agency decides to focus on its first life instead
Second Life, the online 3D virtual world, has been snubbed by Reuters, one of the biggest news agencies in the world.
Reuters began its Second Life odyssey back in 2006, when it embedded a journalist into the site, by the name of Adam Reuters (actual name Adam Pasick).
The last report Adam gave was on 30 September, pr
As part of the roll-out of the updated Reuters Floor and Wall Displays (see below), we are releasing a privacy policy that specifically addresses our products and services in Second Life.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - FBI investigators have visited Second Life's Internet casinos at the invitation of the virtual world's creator Linden Lab, but...
Calvin Klein’s ck IN2U is “the first global fragrance brand to launch in the virtual world of Second Life,” according to a press release that landed in the Reuters virtual in-box this morning. ck IN2U is targeting text-message and IM-loving “technosexuals,” with marketing materials like: “She likes how he blogs, her texts turn him on. [...]
You may notice a few new members of the Reuters Second Life family starting this week. Eric Reuters (aka Eric Krangel) and Rubina Reuters (aka Rubina Matan) are graduate students at the Columbia School of Journalism who will be working with me for the rest of the spring semester.For their initial assignments, Erik is working [...]
Game developer and Areae founder Raph Koster sat down for an interview with bureau chief Adam Reuters on Sunday at the South by Southwest Interactive festival on Sunday. He talked about the state of the metaverse, what's to come for Second Life, and a few tantalizing details about his forthcoming virtual world. Click play below to hear the interview.
Adam Reuters informed me that today there will be two Second Life interviews with Raph Koster and Jerry Paffendorf. Raph is right now working on a eventually-to-be Second Life Killer called Areae. He will be interviewed today at 2 pm CST (3 pm EST, noon Pacific) at the Reuters Auditorium.Jerry, well known to Second [...]
I’ve been a big fan of Moo, a printing company that makes diminutive business cards drawn from Flickr images, for a few months now. The cards I created with a picture of Adam Reuters on the front and my Second Life contact details on the back were a hot ticket when I did interviews [...]
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