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Advertising agency BBH (aka Bartle Bogle Hegarty) — whose client roster includes companies like Levis, Vodafone, Johnny Walker, and Sony Ericsson, among others — is setting up shop in the virtual world of Second Life, according to a press release from the company. The agency is being brought in by virtual-world services company Rivers Run Red, who will also have a hand in developing virtual offerings for the company’s client base, it seems. The build (which looks great, based on the pic above) sounds like a full-function SL office installation — complete with avatar receptionists! (more…)

The video above (flagged to me by SL resident Cheri Horton) is from Second Life resident Kisa Naumova, who has written a couple of tools for getting Flickr pics into Second Life. The video shows a tool the allows the display of a user’s Flickr sets (though it doesn’t seem to allow you to drill into each set; maybe that’s coming), while another tool presented in Kisa’s Flickr stream presents a slide show pulled from a group pool of photos. I am dying to get my hands on one of those to pull in photos from the 3pointD group, but I can’t find Kisa or angrybeth Shortbread, who also worked on them, online at the moment. The new tools would seem to complement a Flickr display prim built by “creative technologist” Matt Biddulph (aka SL resident Matt Basiat) (and blogged by us a while back), though I’m not sure if that still works. SL residents can feel free to drop copies of any of these or anything similar on me in-world, to be rewarded by my sincere gratitude.