Monthly Archives: May 2006
The Next-Generation Second Life® Platform
I thought to repost this post I did on the forums, regarding the latest developments and announcements by Linden Lab. To be honest, this is not Linden Lab’s officially presented plan, rather the contrary. By pulling information from bits here and there, from half-told stories, from vague allusions to a distant future, and several other sources, mostly informal, one can get a rough, overall picture of where Linden Lab is…
“We are not listening to you!”
“Linden Lab Encourages Resident Self-Organisation” After a few weeks of being regularly online at Second Life after joining, you will get Linden Lab’s message coming to your ears from all directions: “Your World. Your Imagination”. Very likely, on your very first day in SL, a helpful Mentor will tell you something like “99.9% of everything you see has been created by the users, not Linden Lab”. And as time goes…
Remember the human being…
In the past I used to have on my emails a signature saying something like: “Avatars are computer-generated cartoons with human souls”. I remember people protesting and saying “I’m not an avatar, I’m a human being!” (since then, I’m more fond of quoting Philip’s famous saying “I’m not building a game. I’m building a new country.”). In certain circles this is known as one of the rules of netiquette: “Remember…
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