Monthly Archives: October 2005
Fourth Generation Second Life® Users
The “older” you are in Second Life®, the more you understand the changes that this world is subject to. Some call it “accelerated change” virtual worlds being what they are, there are ways to simulate real processes much quicklier than in “real life”, thus, the hectic and ever-changing nature of Second Life. First Generation “Tekkie Wikkies” First-generation SL users were mostly a mix of gamers (who came to…
Second Life 1.7 New Features
SecondLife 1.7.0 release scheduled for Monday, October 24th, 2005In our continuing efforts to improve the Second Life experience, we will update the Second Life grid on Monday October 24, 2005 from 6:00 AM PT to 2:00 PM PT. During that time Second Life will be unavailable. The release notes for the new version are as follows: Second Life 1.7.0=========== Major Features—————– – Simulator Performance Improvements* Simulators can now handle many…
The Church Meetings at the Neufreistadt Kirche
Many of you are now tired of listening to me talking about the old Neualtenburg Projekt (yes, with a K, to use the German spelling), currently known as the City of Neufreistadt, and about several of its aspects. While it is not a “city” — a good description, due to its size and population, is a “hamlet” — it incorporates several things that people associate with a “city”. The urban…
SL Community Convention in New York City and in Second Life as well!
This is just a reminder to my faithful readers that the Second Life Community Convention is taking place in New York City, at the New York Law School, during October 8 and 9, 2005. The fun part of it will not only being able to attend it physically, but virtually as well, for the ones that aren’t able to travel over to New York City. We’ll have some sort of…
Competition to Second Life®
At the last Town Hall meeting, where Philip Linden explained to us how Linden Lab will “facilitate” the selling of L$ for US$ in Second Life®, he mentioned how worried he is about competitors catching up with SL. As a matter of fact, he mentioned the word “competitors” several times. This is the first time I atended a Town Hall meeting where Philip justified this action with [...]this is the…











