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This could really be useful for classes as they surf the internet… it might be easier than trying to get a whole class into second life… and a bit easier to remember… interesting.
Weblin is a service that allows peo…

Here is a great real life example of educational uses of Second Life on our campus. Check it out!

Okay, technically it is only a subcommitte of Congress… but still… a meeting in second life.  I’m not sure if I should be afraid, or excited… what do you think?

For those of you who have been following the Second-Life alternative, Croquet, you will be interested to know that a new (very early) release of the next build, Cobalt is now available. You can download it here.
You can read more about the new build here. The graphics are much improved and the interface also looks [...]

Last year when Google announced their Android platform they demo’d a device with a virtual environment.  This morning I read an article about a hack that allowed someone to access Second Life on an iPhone, and a new company that is going to make Second Life accessible on 3G Handsets… Sweet!
Now your second life can [...]

So the release of Google’s new mobile Android platform is a couple of days old now, but I just finally found some time to read up about it and see a demo. Let’s start with that. (Note, you can skip the first minute and just go onto the demo…)

Well… I’m sad there is no [...]

Recently I posted an article questioning the usefulness of Second Life in education, to which I received mixed feedback. Last week I had the opportunity to see Dr. Julian Lombardi and Dr. Marilyn Lombardi of Duke University demonstrate a open-source peer-to-peer virtual world application called Croquet. Croquet is basically Second Life, but much [...]

Right on the heels of my last post about Second Life a couple of Second Life alternatives are starting to surface. I have long known that there were alternate virtual worlds as well, but as I recall the problem lies in the fact that they are just not as big, nor are there nearly [...]

TechCrunch published an interesting article a couple of days ago “Will The Last Corporation Leaving Second Life Please Turn Off The Light?” This article explores the cost of running a second life business and it’s relative small audience. Granted there are lots of things you can do in second life that you couldn’t [...]