Monthly Archives: June 2007
Second Life Fourth Anniversary
In the olden days, Linden Lab would put a list of events announcing its anniversary everywhere: on their webpage, on the forums, in-world, everywhere. This year we have to rely upon my good friend SignpostMarv Martin’s information of what’s going to happen on what used to be one of Second Life’s largest and most-attended events. Under the theme of “History”, here are a few scattered links about what the celebrations…
Secondfest: Virtual Three-Day Music Festival in Second Life
Secondfest is a virtual three-day music festival inside Second Life realised by The Guardian and Intel, featuring live music from offline and online performers, theatre, ballet, cinema, animation and general chaos. It kicks off Friday 29 June at 6pm GMT (10am SLT) and rocks and rolls until midnight (GMT) Sunday night. Three arenas for exclusive performances by Pet Shop Boys, The Aliens, New Young Pony Club, Groove Armada, Hot Chip,…
The $20,000 Question: An Essay by Extropia DaSilva
The Mind Child is back with another essay Enjoy — Gwyn Does the name Mitch Kapor sound familiar? If you are interested in the history of SL, the answer may well be yes, because he was one if LL’s earliest investors. “Mitch Kapor was the only person who got it”, said Rosedale in an interview with Inc. Magazine. Personally, Mitch Kapor first came to my attention through an essay of…
From Welfare State To Laissez-Faire Capitalism
Linden Lab, when I was very young in Second Life (that’s mid-2004), had a policy of subsidizing content, since the world started “empty” and LL expected that residents would indeed fill it up, from corner to corner, with exciting and alluring 3D objects. This was already a third phase; during the first phase, there was no real “economy” (except for barter); the second phase followed up with the introduction of…
WindLight First Look Viewer for 1.17.0.12 (Mac OS X Intel only)
Well, here it is. After two days of getting the open source code from Linden Lab to compile under XCode, I’ve managed to raise up to Zen Linden’s challenge and compiled the WindLight First Look Viewer for my Mac. Zen Linden hinted that the next version of the WindLight FL will be under development (based on the input from a tremendous number of users who tested it) “for a few…
Commerce in Second Life
Blasts from the past: read this very interesting article from legendary John Markoff, written in 1996. Ok, so he was talking about VRML, but look closely about the references he has given for the “future of the Internet” in shopping experience. Second Life users will find this article boring — they’re experiencing shopping in SL quite in the way that John Markoff had predicted. He writes: Not everyone is convinced,…
Apples and Oranges
“Shirkying” – a singular word describing the style of Valleywag‘s Clay Shirky when he attacks Second Life with a mix of bad statistics and biased opinions — seems to be spreading and becoming more popular. In effect, when talking about Second Life®, being able to successfully predict the immediate future becomes a pastime of many, not the least of yours truly, but so many others engage in this ever popular…
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