Second Life Linden Prize finalists announced

Linden Lab has announced the ten finalists (out of over 230 entrants) for the inaugural Linden Prize (Linden Dollars to the value of US$10,000). The Linden Prize itself is open to Second Life users who have an innovative in-world project that improves the way people work, learn and communicate in their daily lives outside of the virtual world and who are willing to participate in Linden Lab marketing efforts.

While no information is available on the judges or the exact criteria, the ten finalists were announced yesterday, and the winner will be announced on Thursday 30 April.

The finalists are:

• Alliance Virtual Library

• American Cancer Society Island

• Invisible Threads

• Let There Be Night

• NonProfit Commons

• Skoolaborate

• The Space Between These Trees

• Studio Wikitecture

• The Tech Virtual

• Virtual Ability Island

There are also three special mentions for groups that didn't quite make the finalists:

• Clinical Scenarios for increasing patient safety

• Language Lab

• The New Media Consortium Campus project

With just a week to go before the winner is announced, which of the finalists do you think will be picked? We think it will be the Tech Virtual, though we rather think that it should be Virtual Ability Island.

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