SecondLife

As you enjoy your membership in the Second Life virtual world, you will accumulate stuff--scripts for your creations, instructions for your avatar's movements and appearance, files copied from the...

It's a big, wide, wonderful world in Second Life, a gamelike site where people shop, party, create virtual scenery, make animated movies and do much more. At first it may seem like an undertaking...

Making new friends is a fun and profitable pursuit no matter where you are, but finding friends among the four million members of the Second Life virtual world can be especially rewarding. Since...

You signed up for Second Life, the virtual world of games, fun and creativity. You have explored a few locations, talked to some other users and said to yourself, "Whoa, cool!" You think it may be...

The virtual world of Second Life allows individuals around the globe to interact through self-made characters. You can change your avatar, or animated image, to become anything or anyone. You make...

Second Life uses Linden Scripting Language (LSL). At its most complex, it takes an expert to use it. However, with some practice, even beginners can animate their "prims" (primitive objects,...

The Second Life virtual world is fascinating to explore. Morphing an avatar, chatting with someone halfway around the world, entering others' creations--you can do all this with a basic...

You can purchase land in several ways in the Second Life sphere, including direct transaction and auction, where your transactions occur in virtual Linden dollars (L$). The Land Store, however,...

You've decided to take the plunge. You've bought a parcel of virtual "property" in the world of Second Life so you can take advantage of the many features offered only to Second Life land owners....

Second Life is a virtual world that corresponds in almost every way to the real world. It has land, houses, gardens, forests, parties, businesses and even money. The Second Life unit of virtual...

Second Life has everything a virtual world needs--social occasions, creative outlets, a programmed infrastructure and even an economy. Using the Second Life currency, the Linden dollar (L$),...

The owners of Second Life pride themselves on providing members with a realistic virtual world. People acquire land, have parties, give themselves makeovers, chat about anything and everything and...

Ever dreamed of owning your own island? At Second Life--a virtual site in which members can talk, create, party and even buy and sell--owning land is the only way to participate fully in...

"Teleporting" brings to mind pictures out of science fiction, such as the Star Trek transporter that converted people to atoms. Fortunately, the only thing you need to "teleport" yourself to...

Finding your way around the Second Life landscape of virtual creations can be difficult, especially when you first enter a location chosen at random by the computer. Beginners may find themselves...

One of the most rewarding parts of belonging to the Second Life virtual world is making friends. As the avatars saunter around a location and chat, you may find someone especially interesting or...

Imagine a marriage where the two people never get on each other's nerves, never fight over the covers and miraculously never lose their looks. Residents of the Second Life virtual world declare...