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News broke today that Philip Rosedale will be returning to the role of (interim) CEO of Linden Lab.
The announcement follows Wednesday’s last minute cancellation of a scheduled speech  by Mark Kingdon at the Second Life Birthday celebration (http://sl7b.wordpress.com).
Audio of Philip’s speeches from 06/21 and 06/23  can be found at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SL7B/Philip-speech
Coverage:
SecondLife blog:
http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2010/06/24/returning-to-the-lab
TechCrunch:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/24/amidst-turmoil-linden-labs-ceo-steps-down
New World Notes:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/06/more-linden-lab-changes-coming.html

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Via: http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/04/20/26549.htm
Original suit text: http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/04/20/SecondLife.pdf
Suit website: http://www.virtuallanddispute.com
Claimant form: http://virtuallanddispute.com/phpESP/public/survey.php?name=VirtualLandDisputeFinal
Coverage:
LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20100430,0,1734971,full.column
Massively
http://www.massively.com/2010/04/21/evans-et-al-vs-linden-lab-the-new-lawsuit-on-the-block
Be the Gamer  (repost from Massively)
http://www.bethegamer.com/2010/04/21/evans-et-al-vs-linden-lab-the-new-lawsuit-on-the-block
Class Action Lawsuits in the News
http://classactionlawsuitsinthenews.com/class-action-lawsuits/linden-research-second-life-class-action-lawsuit-filed-over-land-sales/
Hollywood Reporter
http://thresq.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/04/second-life-class-action-lawsuit.html
Virtual Worlds News
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2010/04/users-raising-class-action-against-linden-lab-over-virtual-property.html
Plaintiff’s summary
http://secondlife.typepad.com/second_life_lawsuit_bragg/2010/04/evans-et-al-v-linden-labs-a-short-summary-analysis-of-the-complaint-citations-to-bragg-v-linden-lab-.html
OnPoint News
http://www.onpointnews.com/NEWS/Second-Lifers-Assert-Virtual-Rights-in-Class-Action.html
AllGov
http://www.allgov.com/Unusual_News/ViewNews/Second_Life_Players_Sue_over_Illegal_Seizure_of_Virtual_Property_100422
Metaverse Tribune
http://metaversetribune.com/2010/04/22/linden-lab-in-legal-hotseat-again/

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[Update 04-21-2010 - Unfortunately the Linden Lab presenters have had to cancel.  We are reconfiguring the session topic and will post an update here.]
We hope you’ll be able to join us on April 26 for our next Virtual World SIG
“A Second Look at Second Life:  Enterprise and Viewer 2″
Second Life has [...]

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Wanted to let you know about a unique conference on collaboration systems happening this Wednesday, March 3 at The Tech Museum in San Jose. Organized by a batch of collaboration specialists calling themselves Program for the Future, and basing their ideals on Doug Engelbart’s vision of developing tool systems that can deal with the [...]

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This week a new virtual world launched called “United Nations Citizens” http://www.unitednationscitizen.com ,  a project from Cisco Systems, Equifax, HeadsandTails.tv and Montag Systems (http://www.headsandtails.tv/ciscopress). “Where faithful friends unite” is the tagline.  (Faithful Friends seems to be a trademark.)  They are offering paid employment for sales associates, online assistants, bartenders, tour guides, waitresses, bands, and developers.

Coverage [...]

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Intel report on Science Sim
Via: http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2010/01/intel-opensim-supports-hundreds-of-thousands-of-objects/
Download link: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/sciencesim-a-virtual-environment-for-collaborative-visualization-and-experimentation

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Raph Koster announced that Metaplace (http://www.metaplace.com) will be closing Jan. 1, 2010.
Here’s a set of links to the coverage.
Raph’s blog
http://www.raphkoster.com/2009/12/21/metaplace-com-closing/
Raph on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/notes/raph-koster/metaplacecom-closing/227988891312
Virtual Worlds News
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2009/12/metaplace-shuttered.html
Massively.com
http://www.massively.com/2009/12/21/metaplace-announces-january-1st-shutdown/
http://www.massively.com/2009/12/22/marketplace-traction-with-the-ugc-model-and-the-closure-of-metap/
Dusan Writer
http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/12/22/the-emphemeral-build-metaplace-closing/
Gamasutra
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26600/Metaplace_To_Close_Virtual_World_Platform.php
Venture Beat
http://games.venturebeat.com/2009/12/21/metaplace-to-shut-down-its-site-for-thousands-of-virtual-worlds/
Metaverse Tribune
http://metaversetribune.com/2009/12/22/virtual-worlds-farewell-to-metaplace/
Gwyneth Llewelyn
http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2009/12/22/metaplaces-out-of-business-will-blue-mars-outlast-it/
Hypergrid Business
http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2009/12/metaplace-closing-a-warning-for-virtual-worlds-users/
The Flogging Will Continue
http://thefloggingwillcontinue.com/?p=60
Doublecluepon Software
http://blog.doublecluepon.com/2009/12/22/the-sadness-that-is-metaplace/
CNet
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10420089-52.html
Botgirl
http://botgirl.blogspot.com/2009/12/are-forterra-and-metaplace-just-first.html

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Adbusters has released issue #86 “The Virtual World – The Natural World” (https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/86)
featuring extensive quotations from the Metaverse Manifesto !
Lots of interesting essays on the implications of virtual worlds.  Don’t miss it!
-MRO

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If you’re joining us for this coming Tuesday’s event “Virtual Worlds in 2020 Workshop” here’s some advanced reading and viewing for that. Due to the intensively interactive nature of this event, there will not be a virtual world component to this event – unless someone wants to run a parallel event… let me know [...]

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Linden Lab (http://lindenlab.com) makers of virtual world Second Life ™ (http://www.secondlife.com) stated the reason for a new fashion microsite built by the company exclusively for 1 of their content creators.
The stated reason for the microsite is that it was done purely “out of the goodness of our hearts” (read quote).
The pages (http://s3.amazonaws.com/products.shop.secondlife.com/agni/fashion/index.html) have ingited a [...]

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As was said so eloquently by Ilya Vedrashko at (http://adverlab.blogspot.com) and (http://www.futurelab.net)
“Augmented Reality is the new Second Life”

From the looks of things, in SL years (blue circles) we are at about a mid-2007 comparative level of hype for augmented reality (green squares)!
Here are the Google Trends charts for both, overlaid. Check it out for yourself [...]

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SDForum’s Emerging Tech SIG (http://www.sdforum.org/etsig) will be doing an event on augmented reality topic on Sept. 9 at 630PM (Presentation starts at 7PM).
Our very own Virtual World SIG Co-Chair Maribeth Back will be co-presenting!
Join us in Palo Alto (and I’m going to try to get this on Ustream (http://virtualworldsig.com/live/) too) next week!
Title:
“Augmenting Both Reality and [...]

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The Guild – Do You Wanna Date My Avatar ? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU) Woot! [- Bob Ketner]

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You read it in the Metaverse Manifesto back in 2007:
“Humans have already split into two camps – those that cling to the dim vestiges of a default “reality” and those that are forging new, augmented realities.”
Now comes word that the old guard is at last realizing the import of these words…..
Today we find Via: (http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2245980/intel-outlines-generation) [...]

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