Metaverse Messenger

Metaverse Messenger
Metaverse Messenger
Volume 4, Number 36
Fri, 05/02/2010 - 16
Helping Haiti
Friday, February 5th, 2010

By KATIER REITVELD

Staff Writer

One thing the Second Life residents seem to excel at is fund raising. Over the years, residents have raised huge quantities of real life cash for all sorts of charitable reasons.

Some of these are regular events, such as the hugely successful Relay for Life, while others are one off events done in response to a crisis somewhere around the globe. Perhaps the most successful of these was the response to Hurricane Katrina, which resulted in the creation of the Biloxi and Big Easy sims.

Teams' registration for Relay For Life of Second Life open
Friday, February 5th, 2010

Relay for Life of Second Life is back and it's bigger and better than ever! This year's theme is '"Wishing On A Cure."

Teams' registration opened preparation for fundraising from March to July, culminating in a 24-hour walk on July 17-18 around a virtual track.

MetaMeets Internet Conference opens registration
Friday, February 5th, 2010

MetaMeets, Europe's premier 3D Internet developer and community conference, comes to Dublin, Ireland, in 2010.

The conference opens just as the movie "Avatar" has become a spectacular introduction to the idea of virtual environments.

The conference, like the movie, is a bridge for the public to see what's possible in a way that begins to draw them to virtual as well as real life. MetaMeets 2010 follows its successful inaugural conference last year in Amsterdam, Holland.

Photo exhibit benefits Haiti
Sherrie Shepherd
Friday, February 5th, 2010

 

Smiling Hearts: A personal touch to matchmaking
Sherrie Shepherd
Friday, February 5th, 2010

 

A new dating service, Smiling Hearts Dating Agency (located at Impressions Mall, Mystery Isle (10, 64, 22)), takes a different approach to helping SL singles find fulfilling relationships in-world.

 

The Line
Violetta Heart
Friday, February 5th, 2010

It litters the landscape.  It jars your eyes.  It lags the sim.  It is ... bling.

Yes, that is right, the dreaded bling.  The bane of super primmy lands everywhere, the necessary accessory of every gansta, wannabe rapper out there.

But rappers did not invent the bling.  Oh no, bling has been around for a very long time.

Sim of the Week
Violetta Heart
Friday, February 5th, 2010

 

Chip, chip, cheerio and off to London we go. London England UK, that is.

 

Our wanderings through Second Life bring us to London England UK, one of a group of sims with a Merry Ole' England theme.  London's sister sims are Mayfair, Kensington W8 London, Knightsbridge, and London Westminster WL.

Resident of the Week
Sherrie Shepherd
Friday, February 5th, 2010

NAME: CocoLady Dench

 

OCCUPATION IN SL: Sr. Promotions Exec for Bonnie and Clyde Entertainment (although I've been on extended vacation for a bit)

DATE JOINED SL: June 6, 2007

Eagle Eye Photo ID Contest
Friday, February 5th, 2010
WIN L$1,000 in the M2’S Eagle Eye Photo ID Contest! If you think you know where this picture was taken, e-mail your answer to katt.kongo@metaversemessenger.com along with your avatar’s name. The deadline for this week’s contest is Feb. 10.  No one correctly identified the photo in the last issue.  For a complete list of rules for the contest, visit the M2 office in Second Life.
SL Libraries plan events
Dulcie Mills
Friday, February 5th, 2010

The Sci-fi & Fantasy Portal hosts an encore Film Discussion on Avatar

on Saturday, Feb.  6, at 1 pm at the Portal

We'll meet inside the Portal, main floor level toward the back right-
hand side.

http://slurl.com/secondlife.com/Info%20Island/210/94/33

This landmark places you on Portal grounds near the wedge-shaped  
Teleportal device for getting into the Portal building.

Click on the  Teleportal, then click Teleport.

Second Penguins
Drake Bacon
Friday, February 5th, 2010

So Apple is coming out with their couch computing platform called the iSlate... no, iPad. And I'm not going to talk about it.  I have three reasons why.

First, I've just gotten back from a great weekend at the Further Confusion conference, and I'm a bit laggy.

Syndicate content