Second life : Places to visit

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2008-07-13T06:16:00.001-07:00

Top ten sims in Second Life for Shopping

2008-03-06T01:38:00.000-08:00

BARE ROSE OF TOKYO

Comments:

•Affordable and high quality
•Great Clothes
•I LOVE those outfits
•Great selection
•Awesome prices and great outfits
•Cool outfits for both men and women
•Fantastic detail and reasonable prices
•Unique and well-designed clothes
•Best value for beyond the norm outfits

ETD Elika Tiramisu Designs

Comments: Great hairstyles. Well laid out store. Staple shopping venue for hair.

LAST CALL

Comments: Great clothes. Awesome clothes, great designs. Nice clothes, affordable.

RaC CITY

Comments: Highly detailed skins for picky avatars. The best skin and hair in sl. For the best skins and clothing up to date.

ADAM n EVE

Comments: Fabulous skins and clothing. Good for both men and women. Great products, demos for all.

BLAZE

Comments: Awesome formal wear with the best flex. Fantastic quality formals for Men and Women. A shop with style, looks exclusive.

GURL 6

Comments: Large selection of flex hair. Astounding selection of hair, good prices.

NYTE ‘N’ DAY

Comments: The first stop for the basic outfitting. Best Outfits. Womens clothes. Great trendy clothes and reasonable prices. Excellent clothing designs.

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TIED FOR #10

Alady, Armidi, Awesome Designs, Calla, Crucial Creations, DE Designs, Deviant Kitties, Freebee Island, Grendel’s Children, Naughty Island, Simone, Sine Wave Island

Top ten sims in Second Life for Entertainment, Music and Night Life

2008-03-05T21:25:00.000-08:00

PHAT CAT’S JAZZY LOUNGE

Comments:

•The authentic Jazz Lounge
•Formal yet relaxed
•Great selection of music, beautiful environment
•Best Jazz club, but watch the lag
•Romantic music & dancing
•Nice upscale dance club, friendly atmosphere
•Very good music and very selective ball room

BOGART’S JAZZ CLUB

Comments: cool music, classy. Busy, excellent build, plenty of live shows. The original & always looks good. Good Jazz lounge.

DANCE ISLAND

Comments: Always fun. Populated, griefer-free, not camping based. Great music, Live DJs.

BUBBLEGUM MUSIC FACTORY

Comments: A good, basic club to hang out. 60's music. events. contests

CLOUD 9 ISLAND

Comments: nice surroundings....mood

CLUB LOCO

Comments: very fun!

HEAVEN’S WIND

Comments: Nice techno dance club. dancing in the clouds. very romantic...beautifully decorated

SANCTUARY ROCK

Comments: The best in live music. Beautiful dance club. Mountain top rock, best viewed dark (set your “World” to dark/night)

Top ten Creative sims in Second Life

2008-03-04T20:55:00.000-08:00

LOST GARDENS OF APOLLO

*Relax*Explore*Enjoy*

Beautiful sim for your private moments, or just plain relaxation. Many secluded spots.

Rules apply.

GREENIES

Comments: you can take rides on spaceships. Loads of fun, watch out for Aliens! Aliens take over a house in this lifesized sim. Amazing design, makes you feel like an ant. Good location for some flying experience. A whole SIM just one room - what an idea. Be the kid, in the movie Honey I Shrunk the Kids. Simply WOW!

SVARGA

Comments: Beautifully built and interactive. Breathtaking beauty. Incredible living plants. Beautifully designed fantasy island, peaceful.

ACROPOLIS GARDENS

Comments: Beautifully built, romantic. Breathtaking walks. The most beautiful place in SL. hiking, scuba. The beautiful tours. Virtual nature. Truly natural feeling, and wonderful poses.

MIDNIGHT REFLECTIONS

Comments: Very pretty and romantic. Big SIM with lots of good spots to have fun. Great beauty, good music, hidden paths and secluded areas.

SL BOTANICAL GARDENS

There is no one place to ‘start’ here. We will drop you in a lovely area over looking the gondola ‘island’ which you should definitely fly to and try. Read below for tips.

Comments: Another beautiful sim with lots to explore. Take the free gondola ride for a romantic time! Fly to the mountaintop cave and meditate with Buddha! Lovely areas to walk and sightsee.

SECRET REFLECTIONS

Comments: Incredibly detailed, beautiful visuals, great fun. Beautiful place to take a date. Very beautiful designs, and we can explore.

BLISS GARDENS

Comments: They're GORGEOUS and fun to explore. Low lag, Lots of activities. Fun experimentation not able to do in RL.

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STRAYLIGHT

Comments: Most beautiful sim in SL. Breathtaking sculpted trees in this wooded setting.

AVILON GROVE

Comments: An extremely well done medieval / fantasy setting. Beautiful landscape, RPG sim.

Top ten Corporate sims in Second Life

2008-03-04T03:37:00.000-08:00

IBM offers so many places and things to do both personally & professionally in SL, we didn’t want to limit or misdirect you with a single default slurl.

Do a SL search in “Places” tab under “IBM” and you will quickly understand why this was voted #1 in our TOP TEN CORPORATE list.

check out the IBM Code Station for code - learn - contest - game - bot- scripts. Cool educational games. They have a very realistic approach.

DELL

Comments: exciting and fun. Great ideas. Allows customers to easily build computers. Well designed SIM with newbie help. Well thought out, lots of freebies and fun. Free Nissan Altima and vehicles, sandbox, scripts.

NISSAN

Comments: Excellent free vehicles!

SONY

Comments: search on the word “Sony” in ‘Places’ and see several. Good place for some music. a land with the phone of sony erricson. Good builds.

CISCO

Comments: They keep fun in business. Info on networking. Lots of technical information. I like the seminars. Note: CISCO is sponsor of the CSI:NY TV show experience in Second Life. Also as of March 5, see their “Hospital of the Future” in SL.

CSI:SL

Comments: the successful extension of the popular TV show into Second Life. Click here to see a video. Over 100,000 people joined SL after seeing the show! fun to solve murders with a couple of friends. A real community has developed there.

MERCEDES BENZ

Comments: Nice people. Get to play on their race track! Nice racetrack to drive and have fun

NIKE

Comments: just do it!! Nice place. I like the innovation. Very nice people

PONTIAC

Comments: Great Race Track. Wonderful interaction with automobiles. Great cars

SUN MICROSYSTEMS

Comments: A basic SL presence with commitment to events. Learn java there, great freebies.

HONORABLE MENTION

THE WEATHER CHANNEL ISLAND

Comments: the successful adaptation of this media show into Second Life. Come here to learn about weather & climate issues while you ski, hike or surf in one of the most fun and creative places.

Comments: check out the IBM Code Station for code - learn - contest - game - bot- scripts. Cool educational games. They have a very realistic approach.

Top ten Education site in Second Life

2008-03-03T19:46:00.000-08:00

IVORY TOWER LIBRARY OF PRIMITIVES
Self-Guided, Self-Paced, Comprehensive Building Tutorial

Additional resource for learning textures
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Livingtree/135/105/25

TUI UNIVERSITY
Comments: my fav place to learn to build, excellent free building classes, Great place to learn, talented staff, Great staff-innovative classes-all level learning

NCI New Citizens Plaza
Comments: a great place for newbie (new in SL) to find help, tons of people and many shops

ASL ACADEMY FOR SECOND LEARNING
Comments: Classes and free lessons in a university setting! Lots of free classes. Good instructors. great beginner info. Excellent and professional classes

INFO ISLAND
Comments: beautiful, professional location with extraordinary buildings and exhibits. Home of the SL Librarians group (over 1000 members), non profit and other meaningful activities.

CITTADELLA UNIVERSITY
Comments: Best italian university. Very great project from italian residents of SL. They learn foreign languages. Group made university where you can learn scripting!

INTERNATIONAL SPACE FLIGHT MUSEUM
Comments: Amazing. Very instructive and entertaining place. Vast information on various spacecraft. NASA Space Exploration area.

NMC New Media Consortium
Comments: Always have something going on for everybody. Great place for a newbie to start - lots of tutorials. Fantastic conference center. Great forums.

ROCKCLIFFE UNIVERSITY
Comments: the best by far. Great classes, great teachers. Great workshops. University environment, good place for starting SL.

NOAA National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration
Comments: Love the tsunami simulator! Created by Aimee Weber. Beautiful and educational.

Best Places for Camping in SecondLife

2007-09-29T00:59:00.001-07:00

PLACE	SEATS	L$ / MINUTES	L$ PER HOUR	NOTES
LA CITTADELLA	1	50 / 5	600	payout max: 50 L$, join LA CITTADELLA and wait in line
LA CITTADELLA	1	10 / 5	120	payout max: 10 L$, join LA CITTADELLA and wait in line
Money Island	3	10 /10	60	payout max: 10 L$
Kalico	1	8 / 15	32
Camping Chairs ($2/5min)	5	2 / 5	24	payout max: 50 L$
Ultraviolet Nightclub	4	4 / 10	24	payout max: 24 L$
HIPPIEPAY.COM	100	2 / 5	24	payout max: 100 L$
Lucilin Castellum Shopping Street	6	4 / 10	24
This Second Marketing	4	4 / 10	24
* COBRA WEAPONS *	1	2 / 6	20	payout max: 20L$
Angels' Island	1	5 / 15	20	daily limit: 60 L$, IM SweetAngleArkin or Angelique Brando to join the group
Lingerie,shoes,flexi	2	4 / 12	20
Tapioca Tastes Fine Furniture	3	5 / 15	20
ATLANTIS ISLAND	4	3 / 10	18
COTE D'AZUR	8	3 / 10	18
Ultraviolet Nightclub	4	3 / 10	18	payout max: 36 L$
M A D D U X	12	6 / 20	18	daily limit: 180 L$
SLAB Designs	3	3 / 10	18
NDE Shopping Mall	2	3 / 10	18
Raven Court	2	3 / 10	18
VESTEL CITY	28	3 / 10	18	payout max: 3 L$
WELFARE ISLAND	82	3 / 10	18
Witches Island Mall	6	3 / 10	18	payout max: 18 L$
Berlin	2	3 / 10	18
LA CITTADELLA	1	8 / 30	16
Michas Freebies	1	4 / 15	16
Terra Micron	3	4 / 15	16
SKY CLUB POLSKA	1	5 / 20	15
LA CITTADELLA	3	5 / 20	15	payout max: 20 L$
Lingerie,shoes,flexi	1	1 / 4	15
CryoGen Cloning Facility	14	5 / 20	15
Berlin	12	7 / 30	14
Altstadt German	14	12 / 60	12
Festival Exchange	27	2 / 10	12	payout max: 20 L$
apfelland	27	2 / 10	12
REDSTAR CLUB	30	2 / 10	12	payout max: 20 L$
Alicia Stella Design	10	3 / 15	12
CARS~Need4Speed~MOTORCYCLES	10	2 / 10	12	no limit
The SHAFT Disco	8	2 / 10	12
SKY CLUB POLSKA	3	3 / 15	12
BRASIL Paquera Beach	12	2 / 10	12
LostDog Designs	12	1 / 5	12	no limit
COTE D'AZUR	12	2 / 10	12
SIN CITY	20	2 / 10	12
2HOTT APPAREL	6	3 / 15	12	payout max: 60 L$
Club Rotterdam	8	2 / 10	12
Ultraviolet Nightclub	4	2 / 10	12	payout max: 50 L$
Gay World	21	2 / 10	12
German FUN ZONE	3	3 / 15	12
Jayzee Beach Mall	4	2 / 10	12
FlashBacks	11	6 / 30	12	payout max: 6 L$
Camp-Dance-BERLIN	5	2 / 10	12
LA CITTADELLA	20	2 / 10	12
Los Santos City Weapons District	9	2 / 10	12
Bay Shore Mall	3	2 / 10	12
Xavier's Playmates at Lucia Bay	4	2 / 10	12	payout max: 96 L$
Liverpool	7	3 / 15	12
Paradise Heights	7	2 / 10	12
Money Island	33	2 / 10	12
Mamun	4	2 / 10	12
Club Myth	4	2 / 10	12
Club Innocence	5	2 / 10	12
Nude Beach!	6	4 / 20	12
Altitudes	10	2 / 10	12	no limit
NDE Shopping Mall	10	2 / 10	12
NDE Shopping Mall	1	3 / 15	12
Club Isandra	10	2 / 10	12
Songfeather Designs	14	2 / 10	12	payout max: 30 L$, guitarist spot: no limit
LUXURY by Vindi Vindaloo*	3	2 / 10	12	no limit
PRO Textures Store	7	2 / 10	12	no limit
Devilish Whispers Plaza	14	2 / 10	12	no limit
Hjelmen Designs	4	2 / 10	12
Michas Freebies	1	3 / 15	12
Mazemi furniture	22	2 / 10	12
Electric Lounge	6	1 / 5	12
Electric Lounge	6	2 / 10	12
Electric Lounge	3	3 / 15	12
Raven Court	2	2 / 10	12
JAPAN free sex	4	2 / 10	12
Tamaqua Mall	6	2 / 10	12	no limit
Lamont Boulevard	20	3 / 15	12
Selene Castle	6	3 / 15	12
This Second Marketing	4	2 / 10	12
girlie	4	2 / 10	12
the sugar shack	4	2 / 10	12
BLUE BAY BEACH	7	2 / 10	12
Pura Vida Designs	4	2 / 10	12	no limit
Marble Hall Shopping Mall	7	2 / 10	12	payout max: 20 L$
Zweite Welt	54	2 / 10	12
Berlin	7	2 / 10	12
Berlin	1	1 / 5	12

Top 30 Places to visit in Second Life.

2007-09-05T20:09:00.000-07:00

Top 30 Places to visit in Second Life.

Black Library - Literature, arts, games, and more. Complex and so much to see here
Dragon Moon Resort - Check it out. Real relaxed atmosphere. Regular concerts and events. More info here
The Cliffs of BonnyDoon - Newly opened build in Liferain Park. Majestic falls, towering cliffs, a treetop village, and subterranean caverns (Link will open up Second Life directly and transport you to this location!)
Galaxy Sci-Fi Sim - Join Starfleet Academy. The group has regular role play events, tactical training, bi-Annual Banquets and more. Great if you are a trekkie, but otherwise…….
Galaxy Sci-Fi Sim - Stunning futuristic architecture by Milo Bellow. -Mad Gods and Englishmen
Camp Darfur - It makes me completely sad, confused and angry. But is has been real happend in the real world, and something we must NOT forget…
Intermundia - Art Space of Nebulosus Severine. Evolving installation work
Little Silent Hill - Re-creation of locations from the survival horror game series
Mars Japanese Gardens - A wild and romantic Japanese park style garden
Nakama - A huge Japanese city, divided into different anime themed regions
Nexus Prime - Vast cyberpunk city. Lots to explore and hidden areas to discover
The Port - Arena for projects which create new links between first and second life.
Pot Healer Adventure - Immersive game of exploration and puzzles
Sci-Fi Geeks Museum - Full size starships, interactive holodeck, movies, events, fan art, and more
Suffugium - Dystopian future city with cyberpunk influences
Sci-Fi Geeks Museum - Full size starships, interactive holodeck, movies, events, fan art, and more.
Suffugium - Dystopian future city with cyberpunk influences.
Svarga - A fully functional artificial ecology system.
Voted 5 Group Land - Caution! Ego-free zone. Sense of humour advisable. It’s almost a part of history for Second Life.Check the great info website!
Avalon Island - Beautiful architecture and one of Second Life-s best cinemas play host to a variety of real world companies and organisations.
Shiny Things - Shoes and jewelery designed for the most discerning residents of Second Life.
Sick Cat - Art installation exploring the possibilities of mind uploading.
Lost Gardens of Apollo - Beautiful oriental architecture with gardens
The Weather Island - Epic sports in epic weather, surfing, skiing, desert biking
The Abbotts Aerodome - Skydiving, zeppelins, planes, balloons
Castle Verloren - A Dutch castle that has almost
J.R.R Tolkien Education Center - The timeline is especially interesting, indeed for me it was the highlight of the visit. Absolute great to see! And also the res..
Ancient Rome - Aamphitheater, temple to Zeus, just amazing to go back these days (Thanx to Rik Riel)
New Paris - My favorite city of the real world, not on the second world
Yankee Stadium - The best baseball club and stadium there ever is AND was