Our green friends tried a lot of special sports since they arrived in the big house: cockroach hunting, slug racing, worm striking, bubble bursting, iceball fighting, sim destroying, paper boat sailing, ... and more. But until now, fishing was an unknown thing for them!

What is fishing and what do you need? A rod!!! You tie a  thread on a toothpick, cast out and hope for any catches. WRONG! But 7Seas can help with hight-tech fishing rods and lots of bait. Starting today Greenies are able to catch tadpoles, dustbunnehs and hundred of other fishes in the ponds of the garden!!! Join them and try your luck by catching custom Greenies and 7Seas fishes @ Greenies Lawn.

What will bring us the year 2009? Do the true inhabitants of the large house return?

Will we finally fetched from a second parent ship? What is 26 x 2?

Do we become acquainted with new habits and hobbies of humans?

 Do we turn blue, if we stay longer on the earth? 

And how highly can a cockroach jump? Questions over questions!

The green guys know only one thing for sure. They will celebrate the New Year with a fantastic firework show and  DJane Sarlah Maggs!!! Friday, 2-4pm SLT. Everybody is invited and get a small gift!!! Join us and have fun on a gigantic extraterrestrial scale.

The cold season just started and our green friends celebrate Christmas with the help of their new friends from all over the world. They decorate the house, bake cookies in the big stove and play christmas elfs by making lots of gifts. The Greenies also found a new hobby ... winter sports like hoversnowboarding or icecreamball fighting. They do it with lots of passion and enthusiasm cause snow and ice are unknown things on their home planet.

Lets accompany the Greenies on their journey through Christmas and winter time, have fun with the lil green guys and take lots of memory pictures from their experience with frozen stuff and Santa Claus.

A special "Greenies Winter Experience" photo contest starts December 22th 2008 and ends January 19th 2009. We have 3 categories in which you can proof your photographer talent:

* Best Screenshot * Winter Sports
* Best Screenshot * Christmas Holidays
* Best Screenshot * New Year Celebrations

Online registration closes in 2 days, this Thursday, 16 October, at 23:59 London time, for next week's Virtual Worlds London conference and expo.  It's 795 GBP to attend - unless you stick the code 'REZZABLEVIP' in the box on this registration page - the full conference and 95 GBP to attend the expo-only, but again you can stick the code 'REZZABLEVIP in the registration page. Rezzable may give away 30 29 28 FREE expo badges. These will get you into the Expo Hall during both show days, 20-21 October 2008. The pass also gains you access to FastPitch.

Virtual Worlds London, 20-21 October 2008, is the leading European event for businesses seeking to understand and maximize business strategies within virtual worlds. VW London takes place at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, two blocks from Parliament. On the speakers list are amongst others Marc 'Linden' Kingdon and our very own CEO Jon 'RightasRain' Himoff.

We love the idea of the metaverse, we think virtual worlds are really cool and have a lot of potential. Good news is that so do many other people including a wave of new virtual world platform companies that are starting to target Second Life directly. This certainly means that there will be more, better choices for where to create inworld content and deliver meaningful user experiences. In fact we are working now on some very exciting virtual world content for mainstream online users.

Metaverse: A Definition

Met"a*verse\,n [meta' beyond, over + verse short for universe] the inter-connected digital space of virtual worlds and web content accessible via avatars.

The true meaning of metaverse is more about what it will become than what it is today. The vision is of a 3D Web (or better termed 3D enhanced web) where all digital information can be acccessed and experienced via an avatar. So, it is the virtual universe comprised of all virtual worlds and interfaces to all digital data. The metaverse will also have a services such as currency exchange, trading transactions, 2D Web gateways and inventory storage.

How far away is this future--? 2010-2012 may see this vision become increasingly a reality as virtual world platforms gain users and build-out inter-connectivity. Increase in mobile applications will also drive expansion of a visually-oriented browsing experience.

 The whole idea of SL is a lot more than making avatar accessories and renting some prims. It has a whole basis in sci-fi and pop movies.  We have some ideas on the Essentials LIsts, but really we know there more, but can't think of them at the moment! I'm sure thre is Star Trek episode that is perfect to show about the Holodek, but I can never remember the episode names.

Check out the new piece at Black Swan. Go there now!. Special price this weekend! Black Swan is already known as the leading art space in the metaverse, so fly your avatar over here and see how this new piece adds to the experience. Fetus by Unreal McCoy at Black Swan Also, check out the Fashion Inspired by Black Swan event starting 16 July.

We all still miss the dinosaurs! Of course nothing is forever even in the virtual world. But, you can still get a fix of Madcow Cosmos creations over at the Garden of NPRIL Delights! Info about his creation at Madcow Cosmos' 'Heterotroph' build.