Brands

External sources of listings of Brands in SL

• Wikipedia Businesses & Organizations - This is not as complete or up-to-date as Tatreu and this wiki page.)
• Tateru's Blog lists 139 businesses and non-profits - July 2 07):
• June 2007 Update from K-Zero - Now with "85 Brands in SL" and country, type and other information; only 60 shown on the SL Map)
• K-Zero Blog - This blog lists brands in SL as well; but it's not very complete (they have Adidas but not Reebok).
• Brands Map - Very cool map of Brands in SL with pictures (but not very complete and no date for when it was assembled):
• Tateru's Monday Reality Mix - See also the New World Notes column
• Business Communicators blog - Information on businesses in SL
• New Business Horizons - Solid list of companies and organizations in SL, most with SLURLs

Announced/Public Brands

This is a list of brands that have either been announced or are in public spaces in Second Life. Please do NOT add to this list unless you are absolutely certain that one of those two cases is true! (Where known, Developer, launch date and URL to announcement are included.)

• 1-800-Flowers(Announcement)(06/2007)
• Aarhof - a real Dutch mall brings it's 48 retailers into SL (3/2007)
• Accenture (Virtual Italian Parks, May 2007)
• Adidas (Rivers Run Red, 9/2006)
• Aloft Hotel Suites (Electric Sheep Company, 8/2006)
• Amazon Web Services (5/2007)
• American Apparel (The Ad Option, 6/2006)
• AOL (AOL Pointe, 1/2007)
• Astralcom (Press Release) (7/2007)
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Website)(3/2007)
• AVRO (Dutch TV, Magic Forest, 1/2007)
• Bantam Dell Publishing (3/2007)
• BBC Radio 1 (Rivers Run Red 5/2006)
• Bartle Bogle Hegarty(BBH) (Rivers Run Red 9/2006)
• Belga (aHead 5/2007)
• Best Buy Geek Squad Press Release (4/2007)
• BNL BNP Paribas (Virtual Italian Parks, July 2007)
• Boer & Croon (Magic Forest, 1/2007)
• CafePress (1/2007)
• Calvin Klein (4/2007)
• CareerBuilder (7/2007)
• Cisco
• CNET (Millions of Us, 9/2006)
• Coldwell Banker Press Release (Code4 Software, 3/2006)
• Comcast (Millions of Us, Jun 2007)
• Costa Cruises (Virtual Italian Parks 6/2007)
• Costa Smeralda (aHead 1/2007)
• Crayon
• Credit Agricole Mutuel (FR)
• CyberExtruder - aka Avatar Island (Cranial Tap 6/2007)
• Deago (multinational beverage company, 6/2007)
• Dell (IVM) Dell Island
• Duran Duran (Rivers Run Red)
• EC Wybrzeze (aHead 7/2007)
• Enel (Italian energy company) (http://www.enel.it/attivita_en/novita_eventi/archivio_novita/enelpark/apertura/)
• Essent (Dutch energy company, Magic Forest, 3/2007)
• Fallout Shelter (Animations and Novelties by Cracker Hax, 2/2007)
• Ferrarelle (Virtual Italian Parks, Jun 2007)
• Gabetti (Italy, 3/2007)
• Gronstedt Group (Cranial Tap 4/2007)
• GSD&M
• HR Block (3/2007)
• IBM (12/2006)
• IDC (Virtual Italian Parks, Mar 2007)
• IFC
• ING Bank (2/2007)
• ING Formula 1 (Article) (4/2007)
• Infinite Mind NPR (Infinite Vision Media)
• Intel (Girl in a Box, MoU)
• Intercontinental Hotels/Crowne Plaza (7/2007)
• iWOOT (I Want One of Those) (Website) (7/2007)
• Jean Paul Gaultier (4/2007)
• Kraft Foods/Phil Lempert (5/2007, AMO)
• Leo Burnett (Article) (Millions of Us 9/2006)
• The Long Now Foundation will be bringing Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings art exhibit to Second Life (6/2007)
• Loose Id (Cranial Tap 8/2007)
• Major League Baseball (Electric Sheep)
• Manpower (Article) (7/2007)
• Make Magazine (Blog)
• Maya Realities (Website)
• Mercedes-Benz (anyMOTION, 3/2007)
• Microsoft's Channel 10
• Microsoft Article
• Microsoft Visual Studio (Millions of Us, 5/2007)
• Mrs. Jones (fashion designer, Rivers Run Red, 2004)
• MTV
• NBA (Electric Sheep Company, 6/2007)
• NearlyFreeSpeech.Net (9/2006)
• Nissan
• Nokia (Virtual Italian Parks, Jul 2007)
• NTT Docomo (7/2007)
• OsMoz (FR- perfume; SL: osMoz)
• PA Consulting (Rivers Run Red, 10/24/2006)
• Penguin Books UK (Article) (7/2007)
• Philips Design (Rivers Run Red)
• Playboy (Article) (ClearInk)
• Pontiac Article (Millions of Us, 10/23/2006)
• Popular Science
• Press Association (3/2007)
• Ratepoint
• RCA Rockerfeller Center (12/2006)
• Reebok (Rivers Run Red, 10/2006)
• Renault Italia (Virtual Italian Parks, 31 May 2007)
• ReutersWebsite (10/2006)
• Samsung Article (4/2007)
• San Pellegrino (Virtual Italian Parks, Jun 2007)
• Saxo Bank (Germany, 3/07)
• Sears (1/2007 on IBM Islands)
• Second Lives Website (a video series for England's Channel 4, Rivers Run Red)
• Sky News Website (6/2007)
• Sony/BMG
• Sony Playstation 3 (Virtual Italian Parks March 2007)
• Sprint Article (4/2007)
• Sprott-Shaw Community College Article (Magrathean Technologies 12/2006)
• Student Travel Association(STA) (Website) (4/2007)
• Sundance Channel (12/2006)
• Sun Microsystems (Millions of Us, press conference 9/27/2006)
• Talpa (Dutch TV, Magic Forest, 2/2007)
• TAM (Article (Brazilian airline, 4/2007)
• Telstra (1/2007)
• Telus
• Text 100 (8/2006)
• TMP International (Article) (2/2007)
• Toyota Scion ([http://millionsofus.com/blog/archives/25 Announcement) (Millions of Us, 8/2006)
• Tuscany (aHead 3/2007)
• UGS/Siemens (Announcement) (5/2007)
• Unitrin Direct Auto Insurance (2/2007)
• Universal Motown Republic (InWorld Studios, 5/2006)
• Vodafone (1/2007)
• Virgin Music Japan (Japan, 3/2007)
• Vivox
• Warner Bros Music (Millions of Us)
• Wells Fargo (Fall 2005)
• Wirecard Bank AG (Article) (Germany, 5/2007)
• Wired (Millions of Us, 10/3/2006)

Consortia and Projects in SL

• Eolus (IBM, SAP, Implenia) (7/07) - real-world connections with SL

Other NonProfits and Government Organziations with Presence in SL

• American Cancer Society (Relay for Life)
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• Cheerful Givers
• Creative Commons
• Diplo Foundation (Gvts. Switzerland & Malta) (5/2007)
• Friends of the Urban Forest
• Global Giving
• Global Kids
• Jesuits
• The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• Make-a-Wish Foundation
• Manchester (City of, England) (announced 2/22/2007) Announcement
• NOAA (8/2006)
• Swedish Embassy
• Tech Soup
• Uthango Social Investments (NGO, S. Africa, 7/2007); SLURL to Uthango
• Virtual Capitol Hill (ClearInk, 1/2007)
• YearlyKos Convention (InWorld Studios, 5/2007)