Another Second Life resident using the name Alex1 Richardson worried that Second Life residents would soon be paying taxes on their in-game incomes.
And a small but growing number of "Second Life" users, known as "in-world entrepreneurs, " are making a living off "Second Life" income, even quitting their real-world jobs.
And for more than six years you've been able to buy real estate in Second Life (anyone remember Second Life?), if you just gave them your credit card number.
Organizations now have the option of using Second Life as a service hosted by Linden Lab, using Second Life Enterprise as a standalone solution hosted behind their firewalls, or a combination of both.
Despite the fact that Arthur pays U.S. dollars to "own" virtual land in Second Life, and that his renters also pay him in real money, it's unclear whether he, or any of Second Life's "residents, " have lasting rights to these virtual tracts.
The county with the highest life expectancy for men also has the second highest life expectancy for women.
Stiletto Moody shoes are seen as a status symbol in the virtual world of Second Life.
More importantly, Second Life users are willing to spend lots of money in the virtual world.
The good news: Traffic on Second Life is up tenfold since the site went libertarian.
Fleck served in a similar role for the company behind Second Life, Linden Lab.
Other avatars have created cameras and are filming things that happen in Second Life.
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Second Life has been the poster child for the growing interest in virtual worlds.
Though the shine is off virtual worlds, owner Linden Lab says Second Life is still doing well.
There are already a number of popular virtual worlds such as Second Life, There and Entropia Universe.
Second Life has fared better, but in ways that could hardly be described as representing a civic paradise.
Linden Labs, creator of Second Life, uses StreamBase, along with Hadoop, Netezza (the IBM-acquired data warehouse) and Microstrategies.
In EVE Online, and a few others such as Second Life, all 200, 000 players are in it together.
Is the range-bound Linden Dollar of Second Life the future model of virtual currency and virtual monetary policy?
Linden Lab, which set up the Second Life site two years ago, plateaued at 1, 000 users in August 2003.
Last August saw Suzanne Vega become the first major recording artist to perform a live gig in Second Life.
He trusts Second Life's owners to honor his dedication to the virtual world.
This weekend sees another first as Second Life hosts its first online musical.
Private-equity firms have been able to refinance, and yield-starved investors have given some of these deals a second life.
And Second Life began to realize a business model about five years later.
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It is 50 times the size of World of Warcraft and 30 times the size of Second Life at their biggest.
The sun is rising again over Second Life, Rosedale declares: Despite its economic troubles, the world's population is still growing steadily.
But, as with the smartphone, there's at least one failed product that has seen a kind of second life on tablets.
Lifton won't offer details of the toy but compares it loosely to a robot that "remembers" its experiences in Second Life.
David Savill, 22, lives in Gloucester, England, in real life and created this spot within the virtual world of Second Life.
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