Lee’s Second Life - “Finding the key”

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Welcome to Kidz Connect, an innovative summer camp program at the Patel Conservatory that has Dutch and American kids combining theatrical talents through video streaming and a virtual world.
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John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, avatared into a press conference today in SL.
Dressed in his business suit, Chambers poo-pooed ideas circulating in the mainstream press that SL and other virtual worlds are facing a downturn in interest.
"I disagree with that overall commentary," he said. "We are at the very, very beginning stages" of virtual world [...]

Cory reckons that VW kids are doing alright
SL co-creator Cory Ondrejka, now senior vice president of digital strategies at EMI Music, reckons that VWs like SL are ‘proving’ themselves.
"Virtual worlds are already entering the boardroom in Vermont, said Ondrejka, where the nations first "virtual corporation" law was approved earlier this month. Until now, U.S. law [...]

Courtesy of the ever-vigilant Stefan Didak:
"The Pentagon is running an artificial intelligence program to see how people will react to propaganda and to government-inflicted terror. The program is called Sentient World Simulation:
"U.S defense, intel and homeland security officials are constructing a parallel world, on a computer, which the agencies will use to test propaganda [...]

Looks like you can play YouTube videos in Second Life. Okay, there are some minor technical challenges like YouTube’s mp4 download links expire after a while, but it’s still worth finding out how to do this. No doubt the wrinkles will be ironed out shortly
Designing office space in SL is not as simple as you [...]

Says HitSearch in a media release:
eitarosoft, inc. today announced that they have successfully developed a 3D virtual world service on Google’s platform “Android”.
The conventional 3D virtual world service required the use of a very high-specific PC, but Android-mounted mobile devices will enable users to enjoy the 3D virtual world service with commonly available PCs because [...]

Snippets of news:

Second Life guide for newcomers - says Katicus Sparrow: “Ariane Brodie gives examples and links of what to do after you figure out good skin, hair and clothes, including teleport scripts, camera controls, jewelry creation and attachment scripts”
Life in the Metaverse - interesting blog by the aforementioned Ariane
Wagner James Au (WJA) discussed how [...]