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SkidPrimz has launched a new mapping application called GVURL for Second Life that puts information at your fingertips, letting you drill down into real estate information, parcel information, and creating a nice overlay of a sim that brings clarity to property lines. AltoXeno gave the app a test drive, comparing the standard SL map to the [...]

I don’t want to remember 100 passcodes. And I recently blogged on this….and blogged…and blogged…..and 4,000 words later came to the same conclusion as Edutechy who also had a nice simple diagram and a name (Virtual World VD) to explain the whole thing: Edutechy also bypassed a lengthy sidebar on interoperability, identity, reality and all that [...]

The Metaverse Journal highlights the work of Annabelle Boyd Jones at the University of Sydney, who is researching the role of journalism and governance in Second Life. Blogging her progress, I was intrigued (or maybe bemused?) to note her comments on the issues of studying virtual world governance because of the seeming contradiction between, well, [...]

“I will not abuse report residents solely based on them saying they’re less than 18 years old, as long as I can not prove this to be true.” Blog post. Who Runs Virtual Worlds I was mulling over the issue of who makes decisions: who decides how content is copied or not, how perms are managed, how virtual [...]

Zyngo, a popular in-world game in Second Life was hacked, causing the creator of the machines to initiate emergency measures. The Zyngo machines were victim of a string of circumstances: “A SL exploit was found and removed, but not before quite a number of my games were cloned. This was hard on me, and hard on all [...]