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Second Life’s Adam Reuters (aka Real Life’s Adam Pasick) was kind enough to drop me an early version of the new Reuters NewsHUD that will soon be released in Second Life. The new HUD not only displays Reuters SL and RL headlines, but can also display several feeds of the user’s choice (you can see recent 3pointD headlines showing in the HUD in the image above), and pulls in headlines from Koz Farina’s BlogHUD.com. One interesting feature is that the BlogHUD feed is customizable to show either all BlogHUD headlines, or headlines from the region the user is in. The HUD also has a tab showing SL financial statistics. All very nice and useful, and a good example of a nice way to pull information into SL from the outside world, something which has been difficult in the past (though SL feedreaders do exist). While the new Reuters NewsHUD isn’t out yet, it should be available in a matter of days at the »Reuters bureau« in Second Life.