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28 Dec
I’ve been a great fan of Alexa over a decade ago when this traffic-ranking site appeared, under different forms, and with a different purpose. Now, among the 2 or 3 billion sites in the world, it shows the pretty traffic these sites have.
New World Notes recently made it to the “top 100,000″, meaning they now [...]
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28 Dec
A new SL newspaper — another one in PDF format — has recently been launched in SL. The AvaStar, with the motto “Your World. Your Voice.”, is published by Gregor Ginsberg (chairman of German publishers Bild.T-Online AG & Co. KG), and is a professional tabloid newspaper for the residents of Second Life. With the latest [...]
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24 Dec
Oh Christmas Tree….Oh
Originally uploaded by Tigerzeye.
At this point, I think it’s appropriate to wish you all, faithful readers, the season’s greetings, have a very happy holiday, hopefully with your friends and family, and quote my own father on this: “Enjoy yourselves and don’t spend too much”
As for my wishlist for 2007, Linden Lab [...]
Posted in Guides & Resources by: Gwyneth Llewelyn
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21 Dec
This started as a “joke” between Mentors (volunteers in Second Life that are willing to spend some time with new users and answer their questions…), but soon it became a FAQ of its own. Yes, most of these are indeed “first ever questions” that almost everybody starts to ask as soon as they rez on [...]
Posted in Homepage, SL Technology by: Gwyneth Llewelyn
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21 Dec
Back in early 2006, Cory & Philip kindly gave us a preview of what they would be doing during 2006 in terms of development of its platform. Everything except in-world HTML (Havok was not on the list) was deployed, mostly during the summer of 2006, thus giving us all a good confidence that Linden Lab [...]
Posted in Homepage, SL Economy by: Gwyneth Llewelyn
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18 Dec
I’m have been accused of being an “intellectual” because I have a blog and actually use a spell checker to verify my ortography
So, to make sure nobody takes me seriously, I have become suddenly inspired by reading yet another Dilbert book by Scott Adams, and, blatantly copying his style, here go a few [...]
Posted in Mind Child's Musings, SL Philosophy by: Extropia DaSilva
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18 Dec
Extropia DaSilva is back with another essay, and this time, she’ll be “going quantic” on Second Life. Explaining complex science using Second Life as an example, she’ll take you through a voyage through time and space, making you realise that “common sense” and “quantum mechanics” cannot be employed in the same sentence together. I hope [...]
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17 Dec
[UPDATE 2007-01-07] Prokofy Neva and Torley Linden (thanks guys!) reported that the comments were broken — they would get some sort of redirection to the homepage and “lose” the whole comment. Sorry to everybody who was unable to post any comments. I found out what was seriously wrong: I had two conflicting OpenID plugins trying [...]
Posted in Homepage, SL Technology by: Gwyneth Llewelyn
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10 Dec
There are so many uh “professionals” claiming that all Linden Lab does is incompetently handled and amateurish and that they don’t know a thing about how to deliver updates, or maintain a grid, or develop software overall…
Well, I also claim my share of professionalism Yes, I’ve worked for ISPs dealing with a few [...]
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09 Dec
A very interesting comment on what the future of virtual worlds might bring us:
http://www.dansdata.com/gz064.htm
Fun to read