How-To: Second Life

Documentation & resources

Official sites

• Second Life Official Site
• Official Second Life Blog
• Second Life Downloads
• Second Life Grid Status
• Second Life Grid Status Reports
• Second Life Community: Mailing Lists
• lists.secondlife.com Mailing Lists

Support & Help

• Inventory Recovery Steps

LSL scripting

• The Scripting Library forum
• The Scripting Tips forum
• Second Life Scripters mailing list
• Official LSL Portal
• LSL Wiki (main mirror)
• LSL Wiki (another mirror - the best backup)
• LSL Wiki (yet another mirror - good alt)
• Using the Linden Scripting Language (Dr. Dobb's)
• Second Life: A Programmer's Perspective (Dr. Dobb's)
• Linden Scripting Language (Wikipedia)
• Using the Linden Script Language (kan-ed.org)
• Using the Linden Script Language (grobe)
• Arianeb's Second Life Tips and Tricks
• Linden Scripting Language Reference
• 'Open Source Scripting' group (Second Life) wiki
• Linden Scripting Language Reference (oz.slinked.net)
• PN Script Archive
• LSL Particle System Script Generator

Building/education/developers/turorials

• SLDevelopers.com
• Second Life Education Wiki
• SL Developer Resources
• SL Developers: Resource Matrix
• Campus: Second Life
• secondlifehowto.com
• Nicola Escher's Second Life Tutorials
• Second Life 3D-Construction Tutorial

Forums

• Official Second Life Forums
• SLDevelopers.com forums
• SLuniverse.com Forums
• Second Citizen Forums
• SLHomePage Forums

News/blogs

• Second Opinion (the official Second Life newsletter)
• Reuters/Second Life
• The Second Life Herald
• The Second Life Record
• Second Thoughts
• Massively
• My-SLNews
• Second Life Insider
• the KONSTRUKT
• Second Style
• Grid Grind
• New World Notes
• 3pointD.com
• Second Life News Network
• The Second Life News Paper
• SecondLife Drama
• Virtual Worlds News
• Second Style Magazine
• Torley Linden's website
• Second Style Fashionista
• your2ndplace.com
• PixelPulse Magazine
• The M2 | A Real Newspaper For A Virtual World
• Dwell On It
• Clickable Culture
• The Forge
• SL Reports
• Johanna Hyacinth's Second Life Blog
• Jeff Barr's Blog
• Welcome to the Real Life! (Gwyneth Llewelyn's blog)
• slog, a second life resident blog
• Bob Sutor's Website and Blog
• Natalia Zelmanov's Second Life Diary
• ged's anti-blog
• Ophelia Drowns: A New Girl in a New World
• Evans Avenue Exit
• Cognitive Dissonance
• Virtually Blind
• The AvaStar
• Moriash Moreau: My Second Life
• Woolly Wildcat Writings
• sloz.info: Australia's Second Life News Source
• An Engine Fit For My Proceeding
• Jacek Lives
• Living in the Metaverse
• Second Life Creativity
• Second Life Games
• Virtual2 - Second Life
• Metaversed
• The Secondlife Newspaper DESIGN
• Shopping Cart Disco: A Second Life Fashion World Blog

Stores/classifieds

• shop.onrez.com
• SLExchange.com
• SLShopper

Misc.

• Second Life Grid
• Second Life Economic Statistics
• Second Life Knowledge Base
• SLuniverse Knowledge Base
• Second Life (Wikipedia)
• Second Life Wiki
• jargon wiki
• slurl builder
• SLuniverse Snapzilla
• SL Handbook
• SL History Wiki
• Second Life Statistics at SLBuzz.com
• SLBuzz.com
• slmaps.com
• Sim Neighbors
• Second Life Brand Map
• Second Life Auction Statistics

Sculpted prims (the latest rave!)

• Sculpted Prims (Second Life Wiki)
• Sculpted Prims: Sculpt Maps and Textures (Second Life Wiki)
• Sculpt Textures in Paint Programs (Second Life Wiki)
• Sculpted Prims: 3d Software Guide (Second Life Wiki)
• Sculpted Prims: Tools and Methods Compilation (Second Citizen Forums)
• Blender tutorials/plugins:
  • How to Make Sculpted Prims with Blender
  • Blender-to-sculpted
  • Making Sculpted Prims in Photoshop (zebragrrl.com)
• ROKURO (lathe) for win32 - Sculpted Prim Maker version 0.6

Open-source

• SLDev - Official Second Life development mailing list
• OpenSL
• libsecondlife
• SecondLife @ Open Content Wiki
• OpenSim

Linux client

In the news

• IBM to give birth to 'Second Life' business group (CNET)
• Second life client, Part 1: Hacking Second Life (IBM)
• First Technical Look at the Second Life Client (Slashdot)
• Coldwell Banker's Second Life (CNN)
• Second Life to go open source (CNN)
• My Virtual Life (Business Week)
• Virtual Bank, Real Scam? (The Journal of the Business Law Society, University of Illinois College of Law's Business Law Society)
• Gartner: Five Laws For The Virtual World (webpronews.com)
• Second Life: Facts for the Visitor (Wired)
• Swedish Embassy Opens In Second Life (gridgrind.com)
• Inside Second Life's Data Centers (InformationWeek)
• Inside Second Life (Rolling Stone)
• FORBES FLUNKS SCHOOL OF SECOND LIFE (New World Notes)
• Debunking 5 Business Myths about Second Life (GigaOM)
• Recruiting real talent in a virtual world (theglobeandmail.com)
• The Coming Second Life Business Cycle (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
• IBM sees future in Second Life, Web worlds (Reuters)

In-world companies

• SecondServer
• Anshe Chung Studios (buys and sells land)
• Pontiac Motoratilife
• Millions of Us