June 2008
19 posts
A Wonderful World. NOT. →
Okay - smear campaign revisited. It’s been five days since this sad, pitiful scenarios was started. and I have time to look at the products in question and really evaluate a few things. And these…
You make widgets. Someone makes a better widget.... →
The whole Intellectual Property (I.P.) Theft issue in Second Life is getting whacked out of proportion. And, unfortunately, there are those that would use whatever means to blow things entirely…
A Marriage Proposal with Second Life Flair →
Only in Second Life, right?
The SL blogosphere is huge. Massive. There seem to be as many blogs about Second Life as there are places to go inside Second Life.
It is literally so…
Virtual Outer Space Inside Second Life? →
So the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has successfully dropped a second robot on the surface of Mars (called Phoenix) near the polar region and has actually found…
Chat Logs in Second Life: for Voice? →
Unfortunately, there are those who, if they don’t like something, would rather have it entirely removed and not available for anyone, even if it’s no bother to them for simply not using it or…
Second Life Library Project » Better Than Camping... →
Need some quick cash in Second Life Linden Dollars (L$)?
Forget the camping chairs and hippie-pay spam web surveys. Here’s a legitimate survey you can fill-in and earn some L$ while you’re at…
Second Life Enterprise. Ummm… NO. →
Second Life just isn’t cut-out for enterprise-level… anything.
The technical limitations are just too many. An example, and proof are in an attempted meeting between a company and…
Second Life DMCA policies | Flawed →
Interesting snippet of a blog entry by Cyndy Aleo-Carreira at Industry Standard, where she touches on DMCA issues and what happens in virtual worlds like Second Life.
Enforcing a DMCA…
If You Don’t Look Good, You’re a Newbie. or… or…... →
The new newbie look isn’t so newbie or even that new.
However, Katt Linden have made to official announcement that the new commissioned avatar looks are now available to everyone….
Linden Lab: Sorry For Breaking Your... →
It’s likely by now you are well aware of the big “take down” that happened this past weekend in Second Life, that included the opens-source scripts “Multi-Love Pose” (MLP). The MLP scripts are…
Second Life Problem: Health →
Second Life make you fat.
Well, it could if you spend too much time in there. The problem is that even though you run around all over the place in SL, it’s too easy to just fly and even worse:…
Real Life Job Seekers: Apply in Second Life →
Aviva USA, and insurance company, is recruiting agents online. Not normally considered unsual. However, they have a private simulator (known as a private island, or better as a…
Virtual Beats Real… in School Anyway →
So apparently Second Life can save you a lot of real life money, and learn you better as well.
Ran across a blog posting by Anthony Doesburg that caught my attention, where he goes…
L$ Drain in Second Life? →
Happens to me all the time. Wondering where did that few Linden Dollars go? Or, if you keep a low balance and then one day come in world to discover your balance is actually a…
Second Life Viewer Change… Did You Even Notice? →
Katt Linden notifies us via the Second Life Blog that the login screen of the Second Life Viewer has been updated with some really useful information. This is actually good stuff:
Lindens vs. Lindens… a Good Look Inside →
Our favorite watermelonie, happy-go-lucky Linden gives a great peek at the inside in this week’s video tutorial. But is it a tutorial? Ah, the enigmatic quagmire of definition. Who…
Real Life Phoenix in Second Life →
How cool is this? The United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA,) Mars Phoenix Lander is in Second Life.
So what - why run off and peek as a prim-based…
Second Life SpaceNavigator has Nothing on This →
Big news going around the news rags and a few blogs is how a computer interface is allowing a paralyzed man to control a personal computer. And again, Second Life makes for the grand experiment,…
Second Life Podcast: Shape of Things to Come? →
Katt Linden has made another informational post at the Second Life blog, reminding all of us that Linden Lab does in fat have a Second Life podcast. Well, it’s really more a Linden…