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 ...

The virtual world Second Life is popular among disabled people, many of whose limitations in the real world appear nonexistent in the digital environment. Assuming alter-egos, they can fly, run, dance ...

Looking to bring that Second Life avatar one step closer to reality? Fabjectory will take your virtual object file and turn it into a 7-inch voodoo doll. The company says logos, tattoos and rings make ...

As the Virtual Worlds conference kicked off in Silicon Valley yesterday, IBM announced a partnership with Linden Lab, makers of Second Life, to create portable avatars that you can bring with you to ...

Have you heard of Second Life? It’s a virtual world, where users create virtual characters called avatars that can interact on-screen. You can exchange real dollars into the currency of Second Life ...

The founder of virtual world Second Life sought to reassure U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday that the online community is able to police itself. Second Life founder Philip Rosedale and a handful of other ...

WGBH Radio Boston is going boldly where no public radio station has gone before, by opening a “virtual studio” on the Second Life Web site. Established in 2003, Second Life is a user-created 3D ...

For more on Second Life and what vendors are doing, read "Making The Second Life Connection." I tried to join the hip crowd last week for an IBM experiment: a storage product launch it chose to hold ...