August 2008
16 posts
Second Life: It’s a Small World, After All. →
Cultural quirks are magnified a bazillion times on-line.
And you wonder why Second Life has gone to pot over the last year or two? It’s the internationalization of the population that is…
Second Life: True Development Platform? →
Kumbaya!
Well, I don’t ‘hate’ Linden Lab at all. I do hate the way they tend to do some things, communicate other things and overall manage + communicate what they are managing and…
Second Life on Corporate PCs? →
Second life on corporate computers? Absolutely, though nowhere near as many as anyone might think. It is not so easy to quickly ‘hide’ the SL viewer application when the boss walks by. However,…
Burning Life: Another Controversy in the Making? →
Burning Man 2007
We saw what happened with the SL5B (Second Life 5th Birthday) where organizers working hard for almost a year were quickly shot-down amidst the massive sanitation…
Playboy buzzes in SL, even when choking in RL. →
Funny. American Apparel came in and flopped. Several political candidates came in and flopped. Coca-cola didn’t bother coming in, and succeeded.
Okay, yes Coca-cola did come in-world…
DMCA in SL: Newer, Sharper Teeth Today →
Most of us have seen or heard of the GPL (General Public License). We all know there are such things as copyright laws and Intellectual Property (IP) rights and that those rights are…
Linden Lab goes AWOL? →
Linden Lab AWOL?
Has Linden Lab gone AWOL?
It sure seems like it. I don’t know, perhaps it’s me and the entire internet connection in two different cities in my area (at home…
How Real Is Second Life Anyway? →
We’ve all read and heard the reports of the benefit and detriment of virtual worlds and Second Life in particular. among the many factors regarding virtual world is the immersible…
Second Life = “Web 2.0″ = Mainstream…? →
Apple, Inc. “Mobile Me” Cloud Computing Service for Mac and Windows
Gartner is proclaiming Web 2.0 to be about two-years away and proclaims that this so-called Web 2.0 will…
Linden Lab Serious About Scalability? →
Apparently so.
And it’s about time. It all comes down to the asset servers. Those are the life-blood of Second Life and all things virtual world.
I am an experienced I.T. guy, but I…
An avatar by any other name is a… er, a… hmm. →
In Second Life, we don’t even give a second thought to the word ‘avatar’. We know what it means, what it represents. In fact, it’s such a pert of our Second Life (SL) lexicon, that we…
“M” to Second Life Residents: Prepare for Lockdown →
M? Is that you? M?
It’s actually funny how the Internet news scene works. For example, a lot of Second Life news is reported in Australia, Africa and especially India.
So, I…
Second Life Sex: “Messy, frustrating and... →
Candy Hudson has a fun write-up about sex in Second Life. It’s a humorous look at the steamier side of SL and a bit a of a crack-up as she explains that she keeps removing her hair instead…
Linden Lab Drops the Hammer on Mainland →
I told you it’s been coming. And now it’s here. Governor Linden and the Linden Army are mobilizing. Is it marshall law? No, not really. it’s the “slippery slope” that always seems to rear…
Firefox Helmet a Reality: Second Life by Thought →
Firefox Movie Poster; 1982
As the article states: ‘eat your heart out, Luke Skywalker.’ A new technology in headsets will allow people to game and otherwise use the computer and…
Massively No Longer So Massive: Crash →
Massively and other AOL blogs: crash
There are a lot of blogs on the net. and there are a lot of blogs about Second Life. However, of those blogs about second life, there are very…