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 ...

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 ...

For many undergrads, college is as much an experiment in identity as it is a pursuit of knowledge. So it’s no wonder Second Life strikes a chord with students: The virtual world, which lets users ...

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 ...

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 ...

Millions of people have created avatars that live in Internet virtual worlds. Those virtual worlds include Second Life and Maple Story, as well as video games. Although these virtual worlds and games ...