Tom Hale, Chief Product Officer at Linden Lab, proposes that the integration of Second Life with social media may include links with dating sites so that you can take the virtual plunge before the real one. Hale made the comments ... [Link]

5:04pm jokay posted a tweet on jokay@twitter. Finally home..Yay! but swear upstairs neighbours have opened a rollerskating rink..rolling noises & im sure i heard someone singing xanadu! [Link]

Filed under: Culture, Events, real-world, News items, Second Life, Virtual worldsSome consider him a kook or an eccentric, while others think of him as a technological visionary. Either way, the accomplished Raymond Kurzweil will be taking the stage to keynote ... [Link]

So I went to check on the hunger striker at the Linden Estate Services building and she's gone! I mean there's no sign of her, has she been abducted by the forces of corruption? Has she simply turned herself invisible ... [Link]

In a rather bizarre Jack Linden office hour the Freedom for Robo front accused the G-team of corruption, accused Linden Lab of following a socialist doctrine, threw in the word "communist"~ a lot and to put the icing on the ... [Link]

Chestnut Rau’s weekly round-up of upcoming SL events… One of my very favorite art projects in SL is Brooklyn is Watching (BIW), which consists of a series of related spaces for artists, audiences, and participants. There is land in SL... [Link]

Following months of seraching, the International Game Developers Association has named a new executive director. Gamasutra reports that Joshua Caulfield (left) will replace Jason Della Rocca, who departed earlier this year. Caulfield's background is in trade association management, not gaming, ... [Link]

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge has approved the sale of Midway to Warner Bros. for $33 million, reports the Chicago Tribune.No other bids were submitted.The decision apparently ends Mortal Kombat film producer Larry Kasanoff's bid to lay claim to much ... [Link]

It wasn't that long ago that Boston Mayor Thomas Menino forced the removal of ads for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories from public transit vehicles operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority. Menino's office also pushed (unsuccessfully) for video game ... [Link]

In a recent, highly-publicized court decision, music industry lobbying group the RIAA won an eye-popping $1.92 million verdict against Jammie Thomas-Rasset (left) of Minnesota. That works out to $80,000 per song for each of the 24 tunes that the 32-year-old ... [Link]

Six years after the launch of Second Life and two years after reporting profitability from it, how much is Linden Lab worth? How does somewhere between $658-700 million sound to you? That's the opinion of NeXtUp Research, an analyst firm... [Link]

Some savings that've been in my notes recently — I didn't spring out to buy these (just yet) but maybe you'll find them useful: "Play your effects" Sugar Bytes Artillery 2 has a discount code for 25% off: CoMu228rbsb . ... [Link]

I know, I know you all thought I was in my early 20's!!!! I hate to break it to you, I hit 50 today and you know how I can tell? It only took ONE yes ONE margarita for me ... [Link]

Filed under: Bugs, News items, Second Life, Virtual worldsSince the rollout of Second Life server 1.26 the already unreliable Second Life group-chat system showed an almost crippling drop in reliability, compared to the previous 1.25 release. Linden Lab have ... [Link]

NWN reader "Adam" has been part of Second Life since 2003, but recently, his real life wife, who hates SL, "accused me of spending to much time in this virtual world," he wrote in an earlier Comment thread. "I'd like... [Link]

Koinup: Your Virtual Life Last week, members of the virtual world social network (and NWN partner) Koinup visited these sims in Second Life, maybe you should too: Drowsy Wretched Hollow Mosh Evil Grins Acropoli(Depicted above) The most photographed sims last... [Link]

The on-again, off-again July 4th debate between disbarred Miami attorney Jack Thompson and gamer/attorney Mark Methenitis is apparently back on.The debate, planned for this weekend's SGC09 in Dallas, went off the rails rather suddenly yesterday morning when Thompson complained to ... [Link]

Earlier this week GamePolitics covered a story by Information Week which reported that new Chinese regulations on virtual currency would outlaw gold farming.But there appears to be confusion about whether the practice of gathering in-game MMO currency and then re-selling ... [Link]