The time is almost approaching to Second Life's® 7th! Birthday. There are many celebrations taking place, including the availability of land for residents to show their creative side with exhibitions.
This year's theme for the celebration is Unexpected Collaborations. I sure many of you have had many interesting experiences with people in second life. The whole of second life is based on meeting people, working with people. Second life is a huge social network, so I am sure they will be many great exhibitions for the theme.
Ars Simulacra: NMC's SL Artist Showcase Island
Walk into the Ars Simulacra NMC's SL Artist Showcase island and you will experience paradise of cool contemporary art! Filled with animated sculptures NMC's SL Artist Showcase is an artist's fantasy. Beautifully landscaped and well throughout placements of art pieces will continuously bring out your curiosity brain cells to jump out and search as many pieces as it could find.
There was a time in the history of the ‘Information Superhighway’ when the internet as we know it today didn’t exist. Today, when we talk about the internet, we can relate to terms like ‘http’ or ‘www’ but this wasn’t always the case. Back in what I like to call the stone age, most online services were presented through portal sites such as AOL or Compuserve. As more people became accustomed to the idea of ‘crawling the web’ these mega-portals’ popularity decreased and the new age of internet service providers (ISPs) emerged. This is where we stand today with Linden Lab’s 3D virtual world platform the Second Life Grid™ but with a unique twist.
Dancers at Club Zero
Every passing day I´m more and more amazed by Second Life®. Second Life or SL, the world of parallel lives, which has grown to an incredible speed through the years, and already has more than 15 million residents, of all countries and ages. Second Life has gone from being just a game for some, to adopting a unique morphology that other sims lack or fail to evolve to the same degree of realism offered by SL. Thousands of analogies with the real world has made this metaverse become a meta-reality for some, where you can live, have sex, marry, have kids, prosper and even die, just like the real world. As you notice, this allows endless opportunities, and in this article I would like to highlight some of them.
Racing in Second Life came as one of the first sports. Since the start of racing, the vehicles and tracks have greatly improved. Also the quality of vehicles style and type of vehicles available. There are many tracks for your style and skill on the race tracks. Here are a couple to check out:
The Builders Paradise (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Muk/128/101/51/) located on the GMG sim at Muk is loaded with tools for builders and businesses. As you enter the shop, you'll notice the products are arranged on two shelves. Each item appears on both shelves. Buy the item for yourself or your business from the bottom shelf. If you would like to be a reseller, buy the desired item from the top shelf.
Starting in 2006, Linden Research, Inc.© launched the Second Life® Solution Provider Program. This was developed to specifically address the needs of outside, real-world organizations seeking to establish a presence in Second Life®. This program has really played an important role assisting in the transition to the virtual realm because in January 2010 a permanent trade-show style Solution Provider Exposition, or SP Expo, was announced by Madhavi Linden. Now, instead of using static web-based media, the Solution Providers can connect to the general public for free year round at the SP Expo.
Deciding to go into business in Second LifeTM is like needing power to run a computer, it's a necessity. Almost every business is based on a service model, whether the service is providing goods, expertise, consultation or a unique perspective. The virtual needs of a business can be met in different ways but the ultimate purpose is to allow easy connection between businesses and their clients. The focus of this article is how these businesses are achieving that connection.
Inworld Vendors Enhance Merchants' Profitability
Written by Se7en Wirsing
A Vendor at Precious Poison(http://slurl.com/secondlife/Winterfell%20Absinthe/32/239/22/)The inworld vendors on store walls or as free-standing kiosks offer some amazing options to merchants even if they only have enough space for a kiosk. There are several different companies offering vending systems with a large variety of features. hippoVEND, JEVN and Apez are examined here to give some ideas as to what is available to merchants looking to increase sales and simplify operations.
