Troy McConaghy - SL Guides

Second Life Guides, Directories, and Search Engines

[LL] means provided by Linden Lab and [3P] means provided by a Third Party.

SL Quick Start Guide (PDF) [LL]
SL Help Portal - Has links to several guides and lots of intro information. [LL]
Searchable Player of Torley’s Video Tutorials [LL]
Second Life Answers - Submit a question and get an answer from fellow SL residents (maybe). Search through old questions and answers. [LL and 3P]

Search.SecondLife.com - A web version of the inworld “Search” (for ALL, People, Places, Events, Groups, Wiki, and Secondlife.com). PG only. [LL]
SL Map Search - Search for SL places or events on the SL map. [LL]
SecondPages - They describe themselves as “Second Life yellowpages,” but their scope is much broader than businesses. SecondPages is for sale. [3P]
SLBiz2Life - SL business directory. [3P]
Metaverse Ink’s MI-Search - Products, designers, notecards, places and land for sale. It lists about 2 million products with images, descriptions, and a link directly to the store. There is also support for scripted vendors. It uses a staff of 14 friendly robots to scan the SL grid twice a week. [3P]
Gridaverse map search. Not maintained, but still interesting. [3P]
ThreadMap - Search SL photos with attached descriptions and locations. [3P]

The new Second Life Marketplace [LL]
The old XStreet SL Marketplace [LL]
Apez.biz Shop [3P]
metaLIFE Marketplace [3P]
slapt.me [3P]
Metaverse Exchange [3P]
SLShopper [3P]
MySLMarket [3P]
Vitty (Japanese with English translations) [3P]
Cariama - New in late 2009 [3P]
Textures R Us (TRU) - Shop for SL textures on the web. [3P]
You can search for “dancing shoes” (or anything else) for sale inworld: Go to Search.SecondLife.com, enter “dancing shoes” into the form, click “Search”, click the Places tab, then click “See Profile” for one of the places. It will list all the things for sale at that place (provided that the owner has made them visible to web search), along with the price and location. [LL]
SL Classifieds - Lists all current classified ads in order of how much was paid for the ad, from highest to lowest. [LL]
SL Land Classifieds - Lists land for sale via XStreet (but there’s more land for sale that’s not listed here). [LL]

SL-LiveMusic.com - A list of SL live musicians. [3P]
Tunes inSL - A catalog of SL musicians maintained by Crap Mariner. [3P]
Musicians in SL - Thinkerer Melville’s list of SL musicians. [3P]
SL Live Radio - Internet radio station playing SL musicians 24/7. Managed by Cher Harrington. [3P]

SimTeach Wiki - Created by Jeremy Kemp at San José State University. [3P]
Second Life Education microsite - Created by Linden Lab. Launched in March 2010. [LL]
Resource Database for SL Educators - Managed by Beth Kraemer from the University of Kentucky. [3P]
The SLED (SL EDucators) Mailing List [LL]
Education Directory - Academic organizations in SL. [LL]

SL Destination Guide [LL]
SL Index - a catogorized index of places, assembled by SLI Chun. [3P]
KoiNUP’s SL Places - Lists the “coolest” and “just discovered” places submitted by SL residents. [3P]
b-places - Lists SL places that people have voted on. [3P]
sloog.org - A list of hot places based on people bookmarking and tagging them with an inworld tool. [3P]
Virtual World Landmark Center on Info Island. [3P]

Public Fashcon List - Directory of places where you can buy fashion (created by Sasun Steinbeck, proprietor of Kiosk.Net). [3P]
Fashion Slurls [3P]
Art Galleries of SL - Generated by the kiosks you see at galleries inworld (created by Sasun Steinbeck, proprietor of Kiosk.Net). Related blog. [3P]
Science-Related Places in SL - part of the Science Center group wiki, managed by Troy McLuhan. [3P]
The SLHealthy Wiki - Lists health-related places, projects, events, etc. [3P]

Avatars United - Was started independently but was acquired by [LL] in early 2010
Second Life Link - A Facebook application that connects SL and Facebook. [3P]
SLuniverse - SL Universe, includes Snapzilla, SL’s oldest photo-sharing site. [3P]
ProfilesLive.com - Formerly SLprofiles.com. [3P]
me2oh.com (beta launch in June 2010) [3P]
moolto [3P]
Mixoom - Formerly SLBuzz. [3P]
Linked Prim [3P]
slook.org [3P]
SL Flickr groups - SL photos on Flickr. [LL and 3P]
BlogHUD - System to blog from inside SL. [3P]

Current SL Statistics generated real-time by Metaverse Business [3P]
SL Economic Statistics [LL]
Second Life Grid Survey at GridSurvey.com, assembled by Tyche Shepherd. [3P]
SL Statistical Charts, assembled by Tateru Nino. [LL and 3P]
Links to time series charts of SL Economic Statistics, assembled by the NinjaLand folks. Not up-to-date. [LL and 3P]
Time series chart of average and max land selling price (in L$ per square meter), assembled by the NinjaLand folks. [LL and 3P]

Second Life Grid Survey - Region Database managed by Tyche Shepherd. [3P]
ObiJan Techologies database of SL regions (sims) - Get basic information about SL sims. Change the URL ending to change the sim. (The link takes you to their page about the sim named Da Boom.) [3P]

Official SL Wiki - Includes the LL Office Hours (anyone welcome), the LSL Portal (a reference for the Linden Scripting Language) and much more. [LL]
SL Wikia - A user-generated SL encyclopedia. It’s where the SL History Wiki moved. A good source for information on old communities and SL people. [3P]
SL Events Calendar - Shows upcoming events. You can filter by date and category. [LL]
SL Solution Provider Directory - Lists professionals who can help you do a project in SL. [LL]
Active SL Blogs - This survey was done in April, 2009. [3P]
Caledon bloggers, Twitterers, and entrepreneurs. [3P]
The Rack (inworld) has almost every magazine in SL. [3P]
Jenn Forager’s list of Alternate SL Viewers [3P]