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| Second Life official site |
The official Second Life virtual world site. (Resident login is here) |
| LindeX™ |
The official Second Life Linden Dollar exchange |
| SLurl |
Location-based linking in Second Life (Make your own SLurl here) |
| SLX: SL>Exchange |
Find and buy in-world merchandise. Also currency exchange and in-world real estate |
| OnRez |
Find and buy in-world merchandise, categorized and with shopping tools |
| What is Second Life? |
Linden Lab's description of their virtual world |
| SimTeach educational sites listing |
SimTeach Educational Sites - "Top 20 Educational Locations in Second Life" on the SimTeach wiki |
| Second Life Viewer Cheat Sheet |
Kippie Friedkin's handy guide to using Second Life features from the keyboard, for both PCs and Macs |
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| Updates, News, Announcements, Trends | |
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| Official Second Life blog |
Updates on policy changes, events, grid status and other topics of interest to resis |
| New World Notes |
Wagner James Au reports first-hand from Second Life |
| Massively: Second Life |
Daily posts on Second Life news and events |
| Second Life News Network |
News feed about Second Life, with articles posted regularly |
| Torley Lives |
Torley Linden of Linden Lab posts video tutorials, news of interest and observations |
| The Second Life Herald |
A sometimes irreverant virtual worlds newspaper with an emphasis on Second Life |
| The Metaverse Messenger |
A weekly online and in-world newspaper with news, fashion, entertainment, etc. |
| SLCN |
A virtual television network streamed in-world and online, with regular programs and special events. |
| Mal Burns' Twitter Updates |
A startlingly rich daily list of pointers to information about the state of Second Life and virtual worlds in general. Mal has video content too, on his blog |
| The Metaverse Journal |
An online, Australian virtual worlds publication with regular Second Life news |
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| Commentary | |
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| Mermaid Diaries |
Sometimes-mermaid Natalia Zelmanov writes and posts many pictures on places, events, fashion, and other topics |
| Aviatrix:: Zoe Connolly |
Zoe writes and posts videos about Second Life events, trends, and experiences |
| M is for Myg |
Mygdala March and other contributors post about Second Life life and ideas, with attitude |
| Vint Falken's blog |
Vint Falken posts regularly on in-world trends and developments |
| The Winged Girl Blog |
Kate Amdahl writes about Second Life social concerns, cultural issues, community and romance |
| Prokofy Neva's Second Thoughts |
Prokofy Neva digs into the social fabric of Second Life and comes up with argumentative nuggets of insight. |
| Dusan Writer's Metaverse |
Dusan Writer reports and comments on Second Life and virtual worlds in general, including news, building information, and trends. |
| Virtually Blind |
Benjamin Duranske's virtual law blog: Legal issues that impact virtual worlds, especially Second Life |
| SL Podcast Network |
Podcasts (online audio programs) about Second Life from a variety of resis |
| Gwyn's Home (Gwyneth Llewelyn) |
Commentary by veteran Second Life blogger, philosopher, activist, and entrepreneur Gwyneth Llewelyn |
| Not Possible IRL |
Dedicated to identifying and sharing well-conceived and realized content creation in Second Life that would not be possible in First Life. |
| BotGirl Lives |
BotGirl Questi's immersionist blog, full of images, philosophical commentary, comics, and information |
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| Fashion | |
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| Second Style Fashionista |
Second Style Magazine's blog, reviewing clothes, skin, shoes, and hair |
| Savoir Hair |
The Second Life Hair Journal. Reviews one new style nearly every day, men's styles on Monday |
| Glam World |
Online Second Life fashion magazine with events, designers and pictorials |
| Second Life Fashion Addict |
Jhuzen Ketsugo's varied, heavily-illustrated and active fashion blog |
| Ophelia's Gaze and NWN Fashion |
Iris Ophelia's regular, themed fashion column on New World Notes |
| SL Fashion Police |
The Fashion Police scour Second Life for fashion problems and lampoon them, gently but firmly, on their blog |
| JuicyBomb.com |
Juicy Littlething's enthusiastic, heavily-illustrated fashion review blog |
| Vignette |
A blog reviewing fashion, furniture and other items with an emphasis on retro, historical, and costume items |
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| Avatar and Fashion Freebies | |
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| Fabulously Free in SL |
Reviews and photos of free clothing and avatar enhancements, updated daily |
| Free Second |
Daily reports on Second Life freebies in English and Portuguese |
| Freebie Finds in a Pixelated Universe |
Daily new Second Life freebie reviews by Anna Zwiers |
| Free*Style |
Multi-resi blog with many posts about Second Life freebies |
| The Freebie Telegraph |
The Freebie Telegraph - Multiple daily freebie reviews by a group of reviewers |
| Men's Second Style |
Reviews of and articles about men's fashion in Second Life |
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| Things to Do and Places to Go | |
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| Official Second Life events calendar |
Searchable. Lists all in-world events that have been entered into the Second Life event calendar system. |
| Second Life events on Eventful.com |
Also shows events from the Second Life event calendar, with different search options and format |
| are we not men? 50 First Dates |
50 well-researched ideas for places to go and things to do, with pictures |
| Rezzable |
Second Life locations built by Rezzable: fashion, clubs, shopping and builds to explore like the Greenies Lawn. You can see Rezzable events listed here and art exhibits on Rezzable builds here |
| Lanna's List on Eventful.com |
Charlanna Beresford's weekly event picks for New World Notes |
| SL Tourist Board |
A flickr group full of Second Life pictures, each with an SLURL to teleport to that location |
| Art Galleries of Second Life |
The current version of a long, well-maintained list of Second Life art galleries (without descriptions). There's another list for photography galleries |
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| Pictures and Machinima | |
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| Snapzilla |
Postcards from Second Life |
| Second Life flickr group |
A huge pool of photos taken in-world and posted to flickr |
| 2nd Magazine flickr group |
Thousands of in-world photos from the 2nd Magazine group |
| Second Life Showcase |
Linden Lab's showcase of in-world photos and machinima |
| Machinima.com: Second Life |
Second Life's channel on this extensive machinima site, with many machinima posted |
| New World Notes: Machinima |
Blog posts showcasing exceptional Second Life machinima |
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| Forums, Discussion Groups, Online Communities | |
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| Second Lifers' Journal |
LiveJournal blog community for Second Life resis |
| Koinup |
A virtual worlds social network |
| Second Life Bloggers |
A large community of Second Life bloggers on Ning |
| rce.universe |
Virtual worlds forums |
| World of SL |
A compilation of nearly 200 prominent Second Life blogs (as of this writing) |
| Mostly Caledon |
Caledon region and Steampunk-oriented blogroll, store listings, services, and related links |
| iheartsl community blog |
A blogging community of more than 100 residents, including Flickr group, with a lot of fashion content |
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| Scripting, Designing, Building | |
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| LSL Wiki |
Detailed documentation of Linden Scripting Language (LSL) for Second Life scripters |
| Linden Lab's design templates |
Second Life fashion design templates from Linden Lab |
Chip Midnight's clothing
design templates |
High resolution fashion design templates by Chip Midnight |
| Building help |
Help with basic information about building from the official Second Life site |
Building In Second Life,
With Links To Web Info |
An SL building resource article from Information Week, by Mitch Wagner |
| Second Life Wiki |
Official Wiki site, with many resources for building, designing, machinima, etc. |
| Particle Script Generator |
Zeja Pyle's free, Web-based tool for generating particle scripts to put into Second Life objects. |
Avatar Databank (clothing
design meshes) |
Detailed avatar meshes for more precise clothing-making |
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| Other Virtual Worlds | |
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| IMVU |
3D avatar chat, instant messenger, and dress-up game |
| Lively |
Google's avatar-based chat system in 3D virtual rooms |
| Kaneva |
A 3D virtual world for socializing and sharing media |
| There |
A 3D world with chat, games, and virtual environments |
| OpenLife |
An open source version of the same kind of metaverse used by Second Life |
| OSGrid |
A free, open-source metaverse |
| Alltop: virtual worlds |
Recent posts listing from top blogs that deal with virtual worlds, including some specifically about Second Life |