Other Virtual Universe Items
Coolest Massively Multiplayer Games (Forbes)
A crop of videogames that let people play online together are getting ready to launch.
'EvoGrid' to model life's origins, and maybe answer the big questions (ZDNet)
EvoGrid is a grid-computing concept that'll attempt to digitally simulate the primordial soup from which life arose and it may shed light on the origins of life on Earth and in the universe. It may also provide new tools for evolutionary biology, biochemistry, and complexity studies. Studying the earth's rocks, scientists know that life appeared on Earth roughly four million years ago. They also ...
Bank Robbery Cripples Online Virtual Bank (Novinite.com)
Space trading game Eve Online has suffered a virtual version of the credit crunch. One of the game's biggest financial institutions lost a significant chunk of its deposits as a huge theft started a run on the bank.
Billions stolen in online robbery (BBC News)
Details emerge of why billions in virtual cash disappeared from a virtual bank in Eve Online.
Billions stolen in online 'robbery' (BBC News)
An online trading game is hit by financial crisis after a player "steals" millions of kredits from a huge virtual bank.
‘Toy universe’ may solve mystery of life’s origins (MSNBC)
Evogrid, a computer creation concept that would be a digital version of the primordial soup, could one day solve the riddle of life's origin.
RedLightCenter.com Hosts First Ever Virtual PornStar TweetUp With Special Guest Ember Reigns (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Utherverse, Inc., developer of virtual worlds RedLightCenter.com and Virtual-Vancouver.com, today announced it will be hosting the first ever Virtual PornStar TweetUp, a Twitter party sponsored by Naughty Tweet Network, on Thursday July 2, 2009 from 6pm-9pm PST.
IBM, NetApp Take on Virtual I/O Bottlenecks (Linux Today)
Enterprise Storage Forum: "Virtualization has done wonders for server utilization and consolidation, but packing all those virtual machines onto a single server has created something of a mess on the storage side. Storage I/O bottlenecks in virtual environments are a growing and persistent problem for data centers, as storage controllers and heads can become overwhelmed by I/O requests from ...
Second Life seeks to mix the real and virtual worlds (vnunet.com)
Ian Williams, V3.co.uk , Thursday 2 July 2009 at 07:00:00 Linden Lab unveils plans to integrate with social networks and online services Linden Lab 's Second Life virtual universe continues to prosper and grow despite the gloomy economy of the real world, and is shifting its attention to helping mix the two realities. Second Life has just celebrated its sixth birthday , and in an interview with ...
Metaplace virtual worlds now blog-embeddable (CNET)
The people behind the online role-playing "universe" are hoping to increase user engagement by enabling people to embed user-created virtual words in their blogs.
