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SL Profiles enhanced profiles displayed within SecondLife’s client. The profiles are pulled from SLprofiles.com. The site accepts advertising, which is paid in Linden Dollars (in-world currency.) Profiles can have first life and Secondlife pics, places blogs, ratings and more. Very cool to be able to bring web content into the SL client. Word on the [...]

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Someone sent me this link to a Web 2.0 event where FriendFinder CEO Andrew Conru does a presentation titled “what can we learn from the adult industry.” I’m posting this because some people argued that I called Friend Finder network “adult”, when it contains a variety of religious and other non-adult sites. AFF is stickier [...]

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Northwestern University has developed an automated news-video program, News At Seven, with help from the National Science Foundation.

News At Seven is a system that automatically generates a virtual news show. Totally autonomous, it collects, parses, edits and organizes news stories and then passes the formatted content to an artificial anchor for presentation. Using the resources [...]

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Oddcast has announced the availability of 3D avatars. Very cool!
No need to break out your 3D glasses to see (and hear) these avatars. Oddcast created some unique three-dimensional talking characters - make em’ talk and let them help you market your latest innovations.
More at the Oddcast blog.

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Dating site avatars which help singles search, browse and communicate with each other continue to gain popularity, if only during planning sessions for the next generation of dating sites coming out in Q1 2007. Eharmony and Match have their DVD and video series, which is fine for some people. The rest of us need [...]

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I went to buy some new clothes for my SecondLife avatar today after doing some real life shopping in NYC over the weekend. It turns out:

A “griefer” — person who disrupts video-games — is attacking the online world Second Life with self-replicating “grey goo” that is melting down the Second Life servers. “Grey goo” [...]

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I tweaked my Yahoo avatar. The squirrel is in the picture because one jumped through my window last week and I woke up with it staring right at me from my nightstand. This type of thing does not happen to normal people.

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What’s in a moniker? Dating concierge, virtual wingperson, call it what you will, the time is ripe for avatar-based helpers on dating sites.

Clippy the Paperclip and Microsoft Bob are faint memories when it comes to helpful talking heads. Today’s avatar solutions from companies like Oddcast provide dating sites with the everything the need to [...]

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