Get ready for Spacebook

"You've joined Facebook, MySpace and Bebo and have more than 3,000 friends but something's still missing. What you really want is to catch up with your mates from the cult World Of Warcraft game and now you can with Avatars United, the newest social networking site."My...

Avatars As Communicators Of Emotions

Current interactive systems enable users to communicate with computers in many ways, but not taking into account emotional communication. A PhD thesis presented at the University of the Basque Country puts forward the use of avatars or virtual Internet personages as an...

Google creates Lively virtual reality that will rival Second Life

"Google has dipped its toe in the virtual world launching an alternative reality website similar to Second Life. The plug-in service, called 'Lively', allows users to assume online characters known as avatars and...

Meez Finally Launches Virtual World

You caught me. I like hanging out on the 'net as a break from work, and yes, I use Meez.  Now the avatar maker has created virtual communities with a great deal of functionality, including your own "Roomz"...

Second Life Bans Beastiality

"Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life, may be extending their crackdown on “Broadly Offensive” behavior to Bestiality, following attempts to remove virtual pedophilia (or Age-Play) from Second Life in...

GLOBAL WARMING FLOODS LONDON… In Second Life

A temporary flood sent avatars scrambling for the rooftops in several virtual places, including London, the Netherlands, and Ibiza. David de Rothschild, founder of Adventure Ecology, staged the global warming...

A Second Life in Politics

"Jan. 19, 2007— Moments after Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as speaker of the House earlier this month, a little-reported supernatural event took place in Congress. Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), his arms outstretched, flew into the House chamber, hovered over the dais for a...

A Second Life in Politics

"Jan. 19, 2007— Moments after Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as speaker of the House earlier this month, a little-reported supernatural event took place in Congress. Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), his arms outstretched, flew into the House chamber, hovered over the dais for a...

Gold Farming: Real Power Relations Play Out in Virtual Environments

FUZHOU, China One of China's newest factories operates here in the basement of an old warehouse. Posters of World of Warcraft and Magic Land hang...

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