Stored-Value Cards Come To Online Gaming

One of the brighter spots in the online economy, as least before the stock market dive last fall, is related to game websites.

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Those who want to relive their college years — the Greek houses, sporting events, or late-night cram sessions at the local pizza parlor — can now do so thanks to a role-playing game, Kindly State University, that arrived this month in the virtual world, Second Life.

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Europe's Number One Cruise Line Costa recently launched their new flagship, the Costa Serena, teleport yourself to SecondLife.

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Last year, Ohio University purchased two islands and built several buildings on it, including a student center, learning center, and arts and music center. The cost? A few thousands dollars, plus some software development time creating the virtual buildings.

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In 1993, NCSA released their liberally licensed, but proprietary, Mosaic 2.0 browser with support for inline images arguably heralding the start of the web as we know it today.

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Isaac Greenbaum, a continuing education student at New York University, remembers the day last semester when his media studies class was settling into a discussion of its next group project. Shortly after class began, a brawny, bare-chested figure bounded in wielding a crossbow.

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Another "goo attack," this one featuring green genitalia wearing Santa hats, halts the virtual world. Recently the flourishing virtual economy of online community Second Life produced its first real-life millionaire, estate agent Ailin Graef, and announced it had reached the one …

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It shouldn't happen to a chat show guest - and you certainly wouldn't see anything like it on Parkinson. A wave of flying phalluses ruined what was meant to be a showpiece audience with the world's first self-proclaimed 'virtual millionaire'.

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When I started doing operational work, we only had 2 webservers, and that was more than plenty. They had been fairly well configured, performance-wise; most of the time, they just sat idle, actually.

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Second Life now has more than Two Million Residents, as evidenced by the "Total Residents" statistic on the front page. You know what they say, "the first million is the hardest." We hit 1 million somewhere in Oct, and just two months later, here we are looking at 2.

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"PLEASE FIX SL" is the message floating in air over Yongnam and Walden sims at 299 meters - the highest altitude where objects will appear on the Second Life metaverse world map.

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The malicious attack, called "the grey goo" by Linden Lab, the game's creators, appeared in-game as spinning gold rings floating in the air.

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The classroom of the future isn't on a college campus. It's in the virtual world of "Second Life." In "Second Life," virtual residents -- cartoonish-looking characters controlled via keyboard and mouse -- create anything their hearts desire.

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The first-year law school curriculum took shape more than 100 years ago. The basic curriculum hasn't changed much over the course of the last century. Meanwhile, the practice of law has changed dramatically.

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At 2:46 CST today, the game Second Life was hit by a massive attack by a rogue programmer. Spinning gold rings began to appear in the air and on the ground, and as users interacted with them they began to chase and replicate.

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In an effort to foster entrepreneurialism within Second Life, Edelman and The Electric Sheep Company are teaming up to sponsor a Second Life Business Plan competition.

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Communications scholars began studying personal space and people's perception of it decades ago, in a field known as proxemics.

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Second Life needs features to provide more information about assets and the results of copying them. Unfortunately, these are not yet in place.

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Contrary to the old axiom, Dell's getting a second chance to make a first impression. On the Internet, that is.

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IBM is ramping up its push into virtual worlds with an investment of roughly $10m over the next 12 months, including an expanded presence within the popular 3D online universe Second Life.

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A version of the hit reality TV show Big Brother is to be staged in the online virtual world Second Life.Fifteen international Second Life residents will occupy a glass house on the site, with each one being voted off over a month until a winner remains.

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(audio article) An exploration of retail, and advertising opportunities in the cartoon world known as "second life"

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(audio article) NPR's talk of the nation does a long segment which appraises the current state and long term future of the virtual internet cartoon world known as Second Life which was developed by Linden Labs.

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