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Instructables, the very cool instruction-sharing site for making things, has a new page up for sharing instructions for making things in Second Life. Learn how to add your own animations, create a cell-shaded sphere, bury yourself underground and do lots of other cool stuff. [Via VTOR.] Not that much on it at the moment, but with any luck there’s much more to come.

Doc Searls flags the next MashUp Camp, July 12-13 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. According to Doc, 500 people have already signed up. I’d love to see some cool 3pointD mashups come out of this.

As Mitch Kapor puts it, this is important! Check the AlterNet post on the new Net Neutrality act, then see what you can do.

Blog-EFL, which covers e-learning tools for language teaching, flags an interesting phenomenon occurring in Second Life, in which the presence of a celebrity (in this case it’s podcaster Adam Curry) has galvanized a community of residents in the virtual world, as well as a small-scale land rush as fanbois people vie to set up shop near the home of the star. Not so different from the real world, perhaps, although such trends become apparent far more quickly in SL, which could lead to some interesting applications (more…)

I’m off to SDForum tomorrow to hear the likes of Philip Rosedale of Linden Lab, Will Harvey of IMVU, Joi Ito and Reuben Steiger of startup VW services company Millions of Us, among others, “explore the new Virtual Economy.” Also on the lineup will be Sibley Verbeck, CEO of the Electric Sheep Company (anchor sponsor of this blog), and what I didn’t realize until the Sheep sent word is that the event will have a mixed-reality component, with the event streamed for free into Second Life. Since attendance at the real-world event costs $150, this is an excellent use of SL as a communications platform, if you ask me, a great example of how a free membership in a virtual world can give you access to more information than would normall be available. See you there.

Tony Walsh reports that you can now buy Entropia Universe currency, known as PED, via real-world ATMs. According to an Entropia Universe press release, players can acquire an ATM card from the company (Entropia Universe) that will allow them to transfer money from their bank accounts to their Entropia accounts via Versatel ATMs. (more…)