Not There Any More: There.com shuts down its virtual world: http://ping.fm/wTCnW 8 days ago
New simulator server software (1.36.4) seems to fix the problem with Estate Bans that didn't work: http://ping.fm/6Zr1W 8 days ago
Call for speakers for the B2P 2010 Spring Conference "Leadership in Business" in #SL, promoted by @B2PBetaTech: http://ping.fm/DhXZT 8 days ago
What a great idea: better integration of shared media and the UI on HUDs (adding transparency): http://ping.fm/FwJL6 13 days ago
Our own @Doubledown_InSL hits CNN: http://ping.fm/W0aEK Congrats, DD! (Thanks for the link, @TrudyTakacs!) 14 days ago
[Blog] On the Second Life 2.0 Viewer Revolution...: A few reasons why the SL 2.0 viewer will revolutionise Second L... http://ping.fm/xn3rY 14 days ago
I always wondered about the claim that Linden Lab made that the “average” user of Second Life® was able to get 10 fps overall in the game.
I certainly did not! My humble Apple PowerBook G4 had an average of perhaps 3 or 4 fps – low, but enough for “not feeling lag”. It has more [...]
Chip Midnight is often in the forums telling people how to design perfectly-matched clothes. His “secret” is developing wonderful new templates, based both on Linden Lab’s own, and on images he has captured in-world to understand where the many avatar polygons join together.
This uppr body template is an attempt of using both Chip Midnight’s templates [...]
Second Life® is quite unlike a MMORPG in the sense that you need skills to get a job – or rather, make a living in SL – but, unlike MMORPGs, the skills you need – are your own!
So, there are no buttons to press on dialog boxes that make you “instantly” upgrade an artificial skill [...]
Recent changes announced by Linden Lab have shattered the whole of the community. Unexpectedly, in a maneuver claimed to reduce inflation (ie. the amount of money in circulation), LL has decreed that it will not support contest events any more. Ratings will go up to L$ 25 apiece, instead of the “token” L$ 1. And [...]
We are all shocked by the images we get from the TV news and online sites, on how millions of people have lost their homes (or even their cities…), and over a hundred thousand are dead or nearly dead after the rage of the tsunami waves who hit the coast in Asia, after the earthquake [...]