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A few years ago I had the good fortune to interview Philip Rosedale , the creator of Second Life. Now, say what you might about that virtu...

Two years ago, the virtual world Second Life was everywhere, as pundits and press alike rushed to proclaim it as the Next Big Digital Thing....

Linden Lab's decision to open-source its viewer (and ultimately its server, too) has triggered a wave of creativity in Second Life free ...

Last week I chatted to the founder of Second Life, Philip Rosedale. He was telling me how happy he was that he'd found a new CEO to take...

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This is getting interesting. After appointing a top Googler as its "digital president", EMI Music has now nabbed Cory Ondrejka, ...

I wonder whether in retrospect Linden Lab's decision to open up the code of Second Life will turn out to be as momentous as when Netscap...

It's been an open secret for some time that IBM has been creating intranet-based virtual worlds, but this seems to be the first official...

Wow: Linden Lab Chief Executive Philip Rosedale said on Friday the company he founded has begun a search for a new CEO with more operational...

It was sad news that Cory Ondrejka was parting company with Second Life, but it looks like there's a silver lining : I think it would be...

I was lucky enough to interview Irving Wladawsky-Berger for the Guardian shortly before he retired from IBM. One of the most intriguing h...

This was bound to happen : Eerily ergonomic, infinitely adjustable, incredibly expensive, the Aeron chair is a fetish item in the computer i...

We're used to seeing the US exporting its own ideas of what consitututes illegality when it comes to copyright and patents - notably thr...

This is a seriously bad move : Online fantasy world "Second Life" will soon introduce the virtual equivalent of vanity plates, all...

Now that the code for the Second Life client is available as open source, I wondered who would be the first to offer a how-to. And the winn...

Talking of guts, here's a piece about Second Life's intestines. I've written about this in various places, but there are more ...

Sounds cool : The University of Michigan 3D Lab has brought Second Life one step closer to real life by developing stereoscopic support for ...

Lawyers thrive on complication and ambiguity. Things don't get more complicated or ambiguous than in cyberspace - it's no coinciden...

The recent opening up of the Second Life Viewer code was big news, but the thing that everyone is waiting for is for the server-side stuff....

It's not every day that a new continent is announced .