Monthly Archives: July 2007
Welcome to the Real Life!
Second Life Residents woke up on Wednesday, July 25th, to the sudden (but not wholly unexpected) change of Linden Lab’s policy regarding gambling in Second Life. After advertising casinos was removed from all Linden-supported advertisement systems, this move should not have come as a huge surprise. We all knew that Linden Lab has been closely working with the FBI and other regulatory authorities to make sure that LL is never…
Second Life Relay for Life ’07
Don’t forget to join Second Life’s largest charity event, promoted by the American Cancer Society to raise funds for victims of cancer!Second Life Relay for Life ’07 is up and running (pun intended!) and you can just jump straight in to the track, visit the lovely sims, and make sure that you do some donations — in a fun way, like paying to free avatars that have been imprisioned
Portuguese Ministry of Justice launches mediation and arbitration centre in Second Life
Press release In a ceremony to be held in the Senate Room of the University of Aveiro, the Portuguese Ministry of Justice, in cooperation with the University of Aveiro and the Faculty of Law of the Lisbon New University, will today launch an ‘e-Justice Centre’, a mediation and arbitration centre, in the 3D virtual world of Second Life. The ceremony will be broadcast live in Second Life to avatars present…
“I’m bored”
This is what we sometimes hear from fellow residents in Second Life. It’s not exactly from new users, either — Second Life Insider’s Tateru Nino has been running a series of interviews on new users that have, indeed, found SL fascinating. No, the comment is actually made by a very specific profile of user. They can stay in SL for as little as 15 minutes; sometimes a few days; often…
Second Life on a Web Browser?
No, it’s not a joke — just take a look at Katharine Berry’s blog! It’s AJAX-based, and of course it doesn’t give you 50 FPS on an old web browser, but the whole concept is simply amazing!
Communities and What To Do With Them
Being currently fascinated with the book written by Mario Gerosa/Frank Koolhaas, Second Life (which describes almost all aspects of SL, and will certainly deserve a much larger comment once I finish to read the last chapters), and after some recent personal experiences with some of Second Life’s mini-communities as well as some real life companies and organisations, this all made me think a bit about Second Life’s “community-building” potential —…
Blog Upgrade in Progress!
It’s time for one of those very nasty upgrades on my blog that might (or not) break the whole content for a bit. I apologise in advance for the interruption in the service, but… we have to move ahead with the times!See you all in a few hours… hopefully![UPDATE] This seems to have worked flawlessly on the first try, I’m surprised again! Some WordPress upgrades are major ones (like this…
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