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First Linden Prize Awarded to Virtual Ability and Studio Wikitecture

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Photo by VERDE OTAARED Linden Lab®, creator of the virtual world Second Life®, created the Linden Prize as an initiative to honor Second Life projects that have an important impact on the real world. LL received 230 applications from all over the world and the voting committee decided that there should be two winners: Virtual Ability and Studio Wikitecture. Both will be awarded $10,000 USD for their efforts, marking the largest prize ever given in the virtual world industry to an individual or organization, according to the Second Life community features blog. The work of both winners show how individuals and organizations are using Second Life to improve the overall human condition, something Linden Lab has been fighting for and defending since day one. Virtual Ability Island, culture and medical care give hands Through several contracts from the National Library of Medicine, AVL has built Health InfoIsland with medical and consumer health libraries, ...

Press News | Saturday, 2 May 2009

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Technology Update

by GARETH OTSUKA Welcome to this month's roundup of technology news from the web, compiled by Gareth Osler (inworld Gareth Otsuka). Without further ado. GENERAL: The latest issue of Code4Lib Journal. LIBRARY 2.0: The new issue of NextSpace leads with an article titled 'Life 2.0'; Stephen Abram writes on '25 ways to use 2.0 stuff to promote books'; The Free Range Librarian suggests our library data should be made available to use in ways that improve our experiences; Events this month, Mashed Libraries Unconference (2, 3, see here for an online mashup tool) and Online Information Conference 2008 (2, 3); Topics this month include staff training, Flickr (2), Pageflakes, RSS (2), Drupal, wikis; The Times (UK) looks at Wikipedia, while the New York Times makes a salient point about the change in one particular collection with the advent of Wikipedia. SOCIAL MEDIA: Internet socializing teaches kids important skills, study finds (2, 3); Social networks ...

Press News | Sunday, 4 January 2009

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