May 2008
30 posts
Customer Serv.. er, What? →
Yes! (Makes football touchdown knee-jerk with simultaneous arm pull.)
Torley (Linden) wrote a great little piece on his experience with company support from two different firms….
Around, Over … or THROUGH the Second Life... →
Total Awesomeness and high-fives friendly Second Life greetings!
Okay, my words, not Torley. Only the great addictive one-and-only Torley can do it right, so I’ll stop trying even. However,…
Around, Over … or THROUGH the Second Life... →
Total Awesomeness and high-fives friendly Second Life greetings!
Okay, my words, not Torley. Only the great addictive one-and-only Torley can do it right, so I’ll stop trying even. However,…
Furious Anger Misdirected? →
I ran across a blog post by Uccello Poultry, where she expresses her absolute fury over the way Windlight and Havok 4 break things. Now, I can certainly relate to Uccello’s…
Aditi Sees the Light of Day →
Prospero Linden sheds some serious light on the beta grid in his post to the Second Life blog. This is really good news, especially with the detailed explanation of what it is, what…
Great Mystery Finally Solved??? →
Torley of “Freindly Greetings” Fame:
“Torley Linden here. I work on “Resident Education”, which means teaching you skills for a better Second Life.”
Did you see that?
It didn’t slip past you,…
Second Life: ‘the great escape’ … or is it? →
Rheta Shan has written a moving piece that, as commented in feedback and I concur, should likely be required reading for all those entering, or whom have for some time been inside…
“Seething. Blind. Rage.” - Tenshi, *This* One’s... →
After the ruckus and farce that is the “Skin Piracy” issue regarding ‘Danae’ of Renderosity and ‘Minnu’ of Second Life, scenario introduced by Tenshi, I’ve about had it with the…
Second Life 5th Birthday Is For The Residents →
“Katt Linden - Dance-Challenged”
Image © 2008, Jenaia Morane
Katt is doing a wonderful job and it’s practically sad it took so long before she came on-board in this capacity. Maybe…
Nicholaz Beresford Clarifies NE Viewer Versions →
I remember practically panicking when I saw Nicholaz’s notice about discontinuing development of the SL viewer. Sad day in SL if you ask me. I love that viewer.
Albeit, it sometimes became a…
Anshe Chung Interview… Russians Do It Right →
Okay, not really about the Anshe Chung interview, except… if you’ve been is Second Life for awhile, or at least paying attention, it is very likely you’ve heard of the famous…
Corporate failure in Second Life is self-inflicted →
The Kipp Report, citing a Gartner report gets it right. Hopefully all commercial and corporate hopefuls venturing into Second Life, MyCosm, There.com, and all the rest will stop and …
An SL bot unlike any other →
Second Life bots are on the change. In fact, it is likely that eventually you will converse and interact with someone in SL and it could be a computer controlled robot.
The Associated…
Second Life® Really Does Affect Real Life. “Duh.” →
I know, sarcastic headliner there. But this isn’t a sarcastic article. Second Life (SL) really does affect Real Life in a lot of ways. My previous three articles are proof enough of…
Will the off-topic comenters ever learn? →
And this is what it has come to.
It seems every single time there is a post on the Second Life, A.K.A. Linden Lab blog, there is a swarm of comments, 75% of witch are off-topic and…
Skin Piracy Scenario = Fashionista Hornet’s Nest →
Wow. Simply ‘wow’.
I have done a lot of research. More than I wanted to, but I felt I had no choice in it. Cripes, I feel like an investigative reporter and that’s not in my job…
“Skin Theft” - [Intermediate] - Witch-hunt? →
[Last names intentionally omitted - this is a second part to my original story here.]
I don’t know Tenshi, (I know of her,) I don’t know Minnu, (Never heard of her before now) and I don’t know…
Blogger News of ‘Skin Piracy’: Slanderous Content? →
Tenshi Vielle is accusing, on behalf of the ‘original’ creator at Renderosity, that a skin is being pirated through out Second Life all because it is sourced from the other 3D online…
Even Second Life Gets pulled into the Political... →
So where is the UCLA on this one? What about all the free speech advocates to demand libraries not block real life porn sites ‘because it’s freedom of speech’? What about the fact that…
TorleyTutes More Useful Than Ever →
Finally!
Yes, oh yes! This is like - the Second Life tutorials arranged by category. I’ve mentioned earlier that I am organizing them to build a DVD library for myself and the most difficult,…
Second Life Alternative… Real This Time? →
Mycosm announced themselves at the 2008 Virtual Worlds conference and have been working hard to get things ready to open their doors. I’m on the private beta list, but that’s still a…
As Suspected: Land Store Delivers NOW →
One of the most frustrating things about buying a region - especially private estates (islands) was the long two-week wait. Even if it already existed and you are purchasing from…
Changes to Groups; Change to Blog… Change is Good! →
How can you not love this?
Can you say “oxymoron”? It seems so many residents flip-flop faster than fresh fish just pulled from the water. it’s laughable.
Every time there is a post on…
Overkill Do-gooders Strike Again [Rolls Eyes] →
In a typical publicity stunt obviously intended for political gain and feel-goodism, another politician in a political season espouses the dangers of online social networks, specifically…
Rip My Heart Out With a Spoon. …Please? →
If you’ve been in Second Life for more than a couple weeks, you’ve undoubtedly witnessed a little drama here and there. You also know by now that emotions, feelings and the drama are very…
Scultpie Creation for the Masses… We Hope →
No, this won’t be a TorleyTute Video blog… he has one of those already!
However, the first problem with the Second Life Tutorials is access. Okay, not access, but rather …
Be Very Careful What You Wish For… →
Those fighting against I.P. (Intellectual Property) theft have been complaining to Linden Lab furiously about how “easy” it is for their creations to be “stolen” (read: plagiarized)…
Most-needed Video Tutorials of All Finally Arrive →
I came into Second Life back in Summer, 2006. I spent a couple months there before I decided to take the big plunge: buying my own land. Wow, what a clusterf**k that was! [laughs…
Graphic Pipline Gets Plugged Often. Now We Can... →
So Lindens are adding a new feature they are referring to as avatar cost. WOOHOO!
I have been saying for almost a couple years the “lag” problems so many people experience is often…
Not Alice’s Wonderland Any More →
Linden Lab has a strong leg-up on any virtual world.
But, for how much longer?
Get the tools and code to play with it here.