Surfers Live Virtual Lives
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NEARLY half of all young web surfers reveal all about their lives on social networking websites such as MySpace, researchers say.  They found 44 per cent of 16-34-year-olds share their innermost thoughts online.
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Survey finds virtual world as important as reality Nearly half of all Americans who belong to online communities claim that the virtual world they inhabit is as important as the real world.â¦
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Italy's Gabetti Property Solutions has  joined the Second Life land rush, laying claim to being the  first real-life property company in the booming virtual world.
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A prototype surfboard includes a notebook that allows surfers to check the latest wave and weather reports, navigate the Web and check e-mail between rides. [Missing Links]
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Websites such as YouTube and Second Life won superstar status in 2006, helping to transform the Internet from a window on the world into a stage on which people play out their lives and dreams.
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Researchers are undertaking a mammoth effort to observe oceanic life using fiber optics and the Internet.
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âGrowing Up Onlineâ asks an increasingly important question: What does it mean to be part of the first generation coming of age steeped in a virtual world seemingly outside parental control?
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An online role-playing game is to be built by a community of ordinary gamers.
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Blog: What would the Second Life experience be like if it was in the first life. The makers of a video have the answer.
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The third annual Second Life Community Conference features plenty of hopeful talk about lofty new possibilities for the virtual world.
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Virtual reality might finally be the medium that unites the passive experience of watching television with the interactive potential of the Web.
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Virtual communities are as important as their real-world counterparts, many members of online communities believe.
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Children have always enjoyed make-believe. Now, some new Web sites are letting them live out their fantasies in virtual worlds using self-designed avatars.
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Artificial Life, a brazen Hong King Company has invented a new (and I use the next term very loosely) game. For those men without a girl, and who have exhausted every other method of finding companionship, comes the Virtual Girlfriend.
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A few simple rules have created a surprisingly complex ecosystem of cannon plants, gridlice, and other strange creatures in the virtual world of Second Life.
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Web-savvy Japanese aged over 50 surf online just as often as young people do, using the Internet to arrange travel and read news, a study said.
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Three U.S. surfing friends whose jobs  moved them to different cities have come up with a way to  continue their weekly drinking session -- in an online pub that  even has happy hours.