Distinct personalities in real and imagined worlds collided Friday at the fourth annual "Second Life" convention. ...more

September 6, 2008

Second Lifers, many of whom know each other only by their avatar personalities, are converging in Tampa today for educational seminars designed to teach those caught up on the computer craze how to better navigate the boxy Second Life 3-D landscape. The virtual online community's annual convention begins this morning at the Tampa Marriott Waterside hotel with breakfast at 8 and a welcoming ceremony at 10. ...more

September 5, 2008

Tampa is about to get a life. Denizens of Second Life, a virtual online community, will hold their annual convention at the Tampa Marriott Waterside hotel, according to Kevin Alderman, a Lutz entrepreneur who sells sex toys in Second Life. ...more

August 13, 2008

A figure at the center of a federal lawsuit over an online sex toy is a 19-year-old man living in Texas with his grandmother and great-grandmother, said the man who developed the toy. ...more

October 26, 2007

TAMPA - The mysterious avatar who illegally copied and sold a virtual sex toy actually is a 19-year-old man who lives in Texas with his grandmother and great-grandmother, said Kevin Alderman, the entrepreneur who has built a business in a virtual online community known as "Second Life." ...more

October 25, 2007