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Articles tagged "second life"

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Online game Second Life hasn’t gotten a first one during this presidential campaign

by Karen Brooks [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[18.Aug.08] :. AUSTIN, Texas - It would seem a natural fit: politicians, people and a world removed from reality. And true, the whimsical universe in the online game Second Life is an inviting place for...

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Avatars awaken second selves

by Rick Montgomery [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[14.Feb.08] :. KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Bryan Mnemonic can fly. His suit never wrinkles, and his chiseled body never bruises, not even if he crashes into trees. Bryan Carter wishes he could afford Mnemonic’s...

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Doing business in Second Life

by Patricia Kitchen [Newsday (MCT)]

[9.Oct.07] :. When Greg Verdino of Melville, N.Y., gets up to go to work, he no longer makes a dash for the Long Island Rail Road to commute to Manhattan. No, as chief strategy officer of a new marketing company...

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