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The End Of a Legacy

|Users gather for an in world presentation|
On September 25, 2009 highly acclaimed virtual presence in Second Life, Orange Island, announced that it would be holding its last event on September 29, 2009, as a final parting farewell to the Second Life platform. It is still unclear whether or not Orange Island [...]

The University of Texas Initiates a System-Wide Rollout into Second Life:
Sixteen Campuses will Serve as Virtual Learning Model for Other Statewide Systems

Today, Linden Lab, the Makers of Second Life and Second Life Work are announcing the first statewide rollout of a virtual learning environment in the world.  The Transforming Undergraduate Education Program, at the University of Texas System, recently awarded [...]

After addressing concerns over the recent Second Life price hikes for Openspace servers, and a recent letter from M Linden, Robin Linden today announced a new contest offering a $10,000 prize. The contest called “The Linden Prize”, will award one resident or team of people in SL with $10,000 paid in Linden Dollars, for “an [...]

On Monday November 3, 2008 Linden Lab announced they would be working with successful interactive design firm Big Spaceship to dramatically change and improve a new users experience during their first hour of Second Life. Since the more recent changes in Second Life management there has been a heightened focus on improving a new users [...]

In the real world our lives take on various forms, causing each of us to tackle different issues and walk certain paths. We grow up, we find jobs, we settle down, and we form communities (amongst other things). The virtual world is not unlike the real world in this way, beyond being a faster paced [...]