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Gossip Girl's Second Life Secret
While we've been enjoying the stylish fashions and gadgets on Gossip Girl — and the fact that the show is about a blogger! - some fans have started enjoying Gossip Girl's neighborhood in Second Life experience called "The Upper East Side."
In case you didn't know, Second Life is a 3D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents.
Tyra Hosts A Post Grammy Party Today In Cyberspace
Looks like Tyra Banks is following in the footsteps of her protégée and Top Model Adrianne Curry for once! Last week, Tyra sent out an e-mail saying she'd been keeping a secret for months - she and some hot designers have created Tyra Banks' Virtual Studio on the internet. She explains "We all IM and chat online with our friends, so I decided to TYRASIZE (kind of like "Super Size") online chatting - so I've had the talk show set and myself turned into 3D animation!"
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Virtual New Moon Worlds to Launch This November
If there wasn't already enough geeky New Moon and Twilight goods to go around, Summit Entertainment — the production company behind New Moon and Twilight — and web-based virtual world creator Habbo, have teamed up to create New Moon themed virtual rooms before the release of the movie on Nov. 20. Users will be able to create their very own avatars, buy virtual items, and decorate their virtual New Moon rooms with goods from the movie.
The 13 Most Beautiful Avatars Of Second Life
No this isn't a post about America's next top avatars contest, but it is about the model-like beauties of Second Life. Based on Andy Warhol's short films: 13 Most Beautiful Women and 13 Most Beautiful Boys comes a serious of canvas mounted portrait prints by the Italian artists Eva and Franco Mattes. Actual Second Lifers originally created these creative avatars.
Daily Tech: LG Debuts Its XD3 Slim Portable Hard Drive
- LG's new 320GB external hard drive has surfaced in Korea for about $90 — Engadget
- Take a virtual trip around the world with Google's newest 5.1 version of Google Earth — Lifehacker
- Check out which video games made it to store shelves this week — Green Pixels
- Morgan Ritchie took tweets from the past 100 days from British actor and writer Stephen Fry's Twitter page and turned them into an illustrative masterpiece — Mashable
- Wow. You can pick up a Rock Band kit and Rock Band 2 for only $79 — CrunchGear
- It's giveaway and game time on GeekSugar! Be sure to log in and play our Best Video Game ever bracket!
Download of the Day: TooManyTabs
Ever since Firefox and I have patched up our rocky relationship, I've been looking at new ways to spruce up my favorite Internet browser. The FF add-on ColorfulTabs (I couldn't imagine my virtual world without it!) has added the perfect amount of oo la la to not only my browser, but my screen appearance in general. But I'm loving my latest add-on, TooManyTabs, because it provides you with an extra Firefox row, so you don't have to scroll through all your tabs to see them — making it much easier to find specific tabs!
Would You Take a Virtual Vacation?
There's nothing like feeling the warm sand under your toes as you step out onto a beach during the first few moments of a vacation. You know you're really on vacation. That is, of course, if you have saved up enough vacation time and money to go.
Website of the Day: What Does the Internet Think?
Forget taking an informal poll of your friends, you know what you really want to know what your virtual audience thinks — your Twitter and Facebook peeps, and basically, the world at large.
Find out what the new public opinion is on any subject with What Does the Internet Think?. Enter in anything you're curious about, from celebrities to movies to random subjects like donuts, and the site tells you if the general opinion is positive, negative, or indifferent.
The Guild Cast in Cheeky Video About Online Avatars
With the third season of the web based series The Guild starting August 25, the fantasy MMO characters are appearing in a new music video called, "Do You Want to Date My Avatar?" With The Guild star Felicia Day serenading us with lines like, "You'll never see my actual face, our love will be in virtual space." The video basically mocks all of the stereotypes associated with people having really hot avatars in role playing games like World of Warcraft.
Tech Dating 101: Blogging About Dating
Call it tech and the single girl; lately, we've been tackling a lot of couples' issues in Tech Dating 101, but today I'm going to focus on being single in a virtual world.
With so many people blogging, it makes sense to mine your rich personal life, particularly the joys and horrors of dating. Just think — instead of making several phone calls to your girlfriends and any other interested parties, you can just direct everyone to your latest blog post.
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