Telstra have announced the development of a replica of the Sydney CBD on their suite of islands. It's a development with business firmly in mind: "At SydSim, real world businesses will soon be able to explore the commercial opportunities available in the virtual world, by renting an office or shopfront at the virtual location of their existing real world premises. This is an … [Read more...] about SydSim is on its way
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‘The Office’ covers Second Life
With the massive blog coverage on CSI New York's episode on Second Life, another TV appearance has been overlooked. The US version of The Office had an SL cameo. One part of it can be seen here: There's a reason for mentioning this - one of SLOz's sponsors, Encore Design Group (EDG), was responsible for the build "The Hanging Gardens of Ancient Babylon". EDG helped us with … [Read more...] about ‘The Office’ covers Second Life
Real Estate Life – the full story
As promised, we spent a little more time checking out 'Real Estate Life', the island launched by the REA Group. There's a lot of emphasis on space and it's certainly not a build that has logo saturation - the main building certainly has its fair share but otherwise it's an understated approach. We caught up with Dave Platter, Corporate PR and Internal Communications Manager … [Read more...] about Real Estate Life – the full story
Internet Industry Association launches
The old saying 'if it rains, it pours' applies in Second Life this week. The Australian Internet Industry Association (IIA) is launching their SL presence tonight. IIA Island contains a sizeable sandbox, cafe, freefall platform and assorted buildings. The launch is being held tonight at 6.30pm AEST. The plans for the launch are: "Streaming music of original Aussie bands is … [Read more...] about Internet Industry Association launches
Real Estate Life is latest aussie entrant into Second Life
Back in July we reported that the REA Group(best known for the realestate.com.au site) had an island under development. The development is now complete and is called 'Real Estate Life'. We'll do a more detailed tour of it later this week, but here's what REA are saying their objective with the presence is to "learn from and build relationships with other in-world … [Read more...] about Real Estate Life is latest aussie entrant into Second Life