Note this is a third party web site, and its operation and safety cannot be checked.  Use at your own risk, and perhaps change the password soon after registering as a safety measure.

Second Life Registration API: http://modularsystems.sl/regapi.shtml

• They indicate that it gives a list of around 95% of all available last names in one go.
• Note that it also states that the e-mail address used must be unique, a restriction imposed by Linden Labs. 

A common issue for collaborative uses of Second Life is the inabilty to select a real name or show it efrectively alongside an avatar in Secod Life.  This is about to change.  Unique usernames and "display names" will now be separate and can be used in flexible ways.

http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2010/08/17/display-names-bringing-greater-self-expression-to-second-life

I-Room has been included in Linden Labs Secod Life Destination Guide and in a blog posting on 5-Apr-2010 describing innovative use of Shared Media in the Second Life Viewer 2:

• Second Life Destination Guide - Shared Media Category - OpenVCE I-Zone - http://secondlife.com/destination/openvce
• Second Life Destination Guide - Shared Media Category - http://secondlife.com/destinations/sharedmedia
• Linden Labs Blog Entry on Shared Media - https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/community/blog/2010/04/05/shared-media-a-new-experience-for-second-life [Local copy in PDF attached as an archive]

GameTech 2010 was held in Orlando Florida and linked to the VADER region in Second Life.

• GameTech 2010 Web Site: http://www.teamorlando.org/gametech/
• Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge Web Site: http://www.fvwc.army.mil
• Twitter tag is #gametech (Search for tweets at http://twitter.com/search?q=%23GameTech)

General James Mattis - keynote Speaker at GameTech 2010

Some notes:

• DOD Official Policy on New/Social Media Access - See http://socialmedia.defense.gov/index.php/2010/02/26/dod-official-policy-on-newsocial-media/
• Machinima for the FVWC Finalists: http://fvwc.army.mil/Video/Evaluation.mp4 (or http://sn.im/fvwc-finalists). Also at: http://media.aiai.ed.ac.uk/Project/I-Room/2010-03-31-FVWC-Evaluation.mp4 (26 minutes)
• The I-Room entry had previously been selected as a finalist or the Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge and was awarded second place in the collaboration category: I-Room Entry Web Page and I-Room Introductory YouTube Video (6 minutes)