My Favorite Eight Posts From Last Week

• What's Second Life's "killer app"? As a platform for binding weak ties.
• Lainy Voom creates another medium-defining work of machinima.
• Hundreds of photo-realistic Barack Obama avatars roam Second Life.
• Real world oil pointing based on SL avatar sells for USD$800.
• Single Second Life: Only 6% of regular users have a designated Partner.
• Lindens explain how SL's voice users managed to talk (and listen) over 10 billion minutes.
• Facebook rep says known pseudonym accounts are OK... but not SL avatar names.
• Kanomi reviews a cool strategy board game: It's like chess, but with disco mirrors and fricking lasers.

Also: New World Notes in Portuguese: Machinima do fim-de-semana: "Nevermore", um tributo a Edgar Allan Poe, ニューワールドニュースフィード：FTCの仮想世界調査がSLのコンテンツ規制に拍車をかけているのか？Seilerは、そうでもなさそうだと語る。