Second Life Guides

The volunteer John Edwards ‘08 area in Second Life has a new neighbor, touting what I can only hope are the hoax presidential aspirations of soundalike psychic medium John Edward.

BM’s Roo Reynolds digs out an interesting quote from Linden Lab Chairman Mitch Kapor.

Scripter extraordinaire Timeless Prototype has a long analysis about intellectual property and patents in Second Life. In the end he determines that some basic functions are just too important to patent.

Not to be outdone by Electric Sheep Company’s $7 million round of financing from CBS and Gladwyne Partners, Millions of Us boss Rueben Steiger gets a massive publicity boost from the Associated Press story, “Virtual Designers Busy in Online Worlds.”

The Journal of the Business Law Society has published an analysis of Second Life Bank Ginko Financial.

In the wake of news that Dutch prosecutors make take action against virtual child pornography — a move that could potentially target “age play” in Second Life — blogger Kitten Lulu writes that it is already a crime in Italy.

The Los Angeles Times runs an article on the dashed Utopian dreams of early Second Life residents.

Men stand further away from other men in Second Life just as in the real world, according to a team of researchers who spent countless hours measuring interpersonal distance (that’s IPD for you social-science types) among avatars.
They also claim that men maintain less eye contact than woman, although I’m not sure I buy that one […]