Second Life allows people to lead two lives -- one in the real world and another in the virtual. But in a way, Second Life itself leads two lives. In its first, well-publicized life, it's a forum for ...

After all, Cylindrian lives in the online community of Second Life. Here, anything goes. Watch Cylindrian perform in Second Life » With the recording industry in near-shambles and the recession taking ...

I've been a debunker of Second Life. Why? It's not real. But I have come to believe that when you inject real-life production value elements, (and I don't mean Linden dollars) into Second Life, then ...

A Second Life land developer has convinced YouTube to pull down an off-color video of her virtual self being harassed during an interview, raising novel questions about the legal rights of ...

What happens in virtual worlds, stays in virtual worlds. That’s the way it’s been when you create an avatar, or virtual character, in places such as Linden Labs’ Second Life. But now Weblin, a Hamburg ...

For those of you who are keen on hands-free avatar expressiveness in the virtual environment of Second Life comes a surprise third-party viewer from vr-wear.com. This beta viewer for Windows or Mac ...

Jennifer L. Fessler, an associate at the intellectual property law frim Grossman Tucker Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC, was recently successful in obtaining a trademark for a client for a Second Life® (SL) ...

On June 23rd, the Berkman Center hosted a two-hour panel discussion in Second Life titled "Avatar-based Marketing: What's the Future of Real-Life Companies Marketing to Second Life Avatars?" With a ...

When Second Life's makers, Linden Lab, made the decision to allow users to retain all intellectual property rights for virtual items that they created, it was always likely that the virtual world ...

The Second Life user-concurrency and user-to-user transaction figures took a bit of an unexpected jump this week, rising sharply after a year of relatively little motion. Through 2009, ...