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Written by Clark Columbia
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
 By Vincent Maher
Archbishop Desmond Tutu recently entered a thriving virtual world called Second Life to be interviewed by Reuters bureau chief Adam Pasick. Somehow this doesn't seem as strange as it would have a few years ago.
During a presentation at the World Editors' Forum in Cape Town, Adam Pasick, known as Adam Reuters in the game, explained that Second Life has a real economy and real culture, and therefore real news. "There are six million people who live in Second Life right now, and the economy generates over $350-million a year in real currency trade," said Pasick.
Pasick's style of journalism is the stuff of science fiction. He jokingly refers to Desmond Tutu as "the Arch" as he rotates the realistic three-dimensional avatar (a virtual body) that he created for the interview.
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Written by Clark Columbia
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
TROY, MI - Kelly Services, Inc., a world leader in human resources solutions, has taken recruiting to a whole new level with the placement of a Second Life resident in a real-life job.
After three and a half years as rector of a small rural parish in Florida, Rev. Brenda Monroe is searching for a new call. Little did she know that she'd find an employment stepping stone in the three-dimensional, on-line world of Second Life.
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http://www.sys-con.com...
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Written by Clark Columbia
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
A Modest Proposal: Let’s Just Have The New American Embassy in Baghdad in Second Life!
John Brown
The $592 million new American Embassy in Baghdad has been in the news recently. And not only because of mortar shells hitting the Green Zone where it will be located -- or because, The Wall Street Journal recently reported, it was built thanks to what amounts to Saddam-style near-slave labor.
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Written by Clark Columbia
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
Regardless of how many numbers they put out showing how many people are signed up for the service, they are continually the butt of jokes and have become the red headed step child of the game world.
Now, even The Onion is getting in on the act and taking a jab at the popular yet much maligned online community.
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http://www.addict3d.org/...
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Written by Clark Columbia
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
Second Life may face a new threat, the need to apply and enforce real law in its virtual world. A Pennsylvania court has denied two requests by Linden Lab, which would have ended the first legal challenge, Bragg v. Linden, to the Second Life creator. Instead, the decisions may grant greater rights and control of the online world to users.
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Written by Clark Columbia
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
By Kate Greene
Today, a New York-based company called SpaceTime launched a new browser, free to download and use, that presents Web pages and search results as floating slabs that can be flipped through, organized, and navigated in 3-D. The graphics concepts are similar to those found in "first-person shooter" video games, in which players navigate an immersive virtual environment. But instead of shooting monsters, SpaceTime users can "fly" through search results such as Web pages, pictures, and eBay auction items. When a user turns her view to the left, the right, up, or down, she can see all the Web pages she has previously called up and zoom in on the one she wants. "SpaceTime is interesting because it constantly redraws the scene that you see ... just like a video game where you can assume any position," says Edward Bakhash, CEO of the company.
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