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15 Highlights of the 2009 Virtual Education 3d Worlds Best Practices Conference Starting Tomorrow.
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2 Free and easy ways to create custom animations for your Second Life avatars. DAZ Studio and QAvimator are both free and easy to use and included are tutorial videos and links with more information.
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Extensive list of the top 10 Online 3D Virtual Worlds rated and with links to more information including images and videos.
If you do not have time for a St. Patick's Day celebration in real life then celebrate in the virtual world of Second Life with a Parade and other activities at the Dublin virtual sim from March 15 to March 21.
No More Sex in Second Life? - Linden Lab Cracks Down on Adult Content in the virtual world of Second Life using an Age Verification System and a Red Light Area....
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The CEO of Worlds.com, Tom Kidrin, has stated that if his court case against NCSoft, the maker of MMOs such as Guild Wars and Tabula Rasa, is successful he will follow it up by suing other MMO developers like World of Warcraft's creators, Blizzard Entertainment.
Via Massively: "The Thomson Reuters news service (still mostly colloquially known just as Reuters) has announced the closing of their Second Life bureau ... making it official, five months after its actual closure and making it perhaps the last news service to report on its own departure."
Linden Lab have published a case-study based on their strategic technology partner IBM's use of Second Life to save money on meetings and conferences. IBM's experience is quite unlike Australian Bank Westpac, which did not find such a compelling case, but the details of Westpac's findings are a bit vague.
From 22 to 27 March this year in San Francisco, the 74th IETF meeting will take place in San Francisco. The IETF is the Internet Engineering Task Force, a volunteer group responsible for the development and promotion of Internet standards, and while it represents just one of the cogs in the Internet's success and usability, it is fundamentally responsible for most of the interoperable network and communication protocols in use today.
The creators of the new Inner World magazine have let us know that they've got their inaugural edition out, and it's 92 pages of pretty, served up by Issuu. The Inner World magazine appears to be the brainchild of Jussara Correa, of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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