Social networking is an amazing tool, one I never expected I’d be using in so many fields, both for personal exchanges, marketing, collaboration and information. It’s like a big old Wal-Mart Superstore with everything you could possibly want or need all rolled into one. It began with Myspace, which despite being considered the granddaddy of [...]

Many Residents in the world of Second Life rely on the popular online shopping site Xstreet to either partner their in world virtual shops or use it as a primary storefront. Last year, Linden Lab purchased XstreetSL - then known as SLExchange - and the now defunct OnRez, a similar online virtual goods market established [...]