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Archive for February, 2009

28 Feb

Showing Off Flexible Sculpties!

The amazingly talented Damien Fate, who has been keenly developing his next-generation tiny avatars Loco Pocos, has launched two awesomely cool videos showing off flexible sculpties on his latest batch of Loco Pocos avatars!
Flexible sculpties (or FlexiSculpties) are not part of LL’s plans to be integrated in SL soon. Still, Qarl Linden has been looking into [...]

25 Feb

New Official Second Life Blog(s)!

Oh yes, they’re here! As promised, with a few delays, Linden Lab finally released their new communication vehicle for the masses: a series of blogs under an unifying theme, with several categories — Features, Community, Working Inworld, Technology, Land and Sea, and Press. Not quite the way the Old Blogs were structured (where each Linden willing to blog about [...]

24 Feb

Valleywag shuts down but still publishes another doomsday prediction of Second Life

Hiro Pendragon pointed me to the latest bit of Valleywag nonsense, where you can see that once more the End of Second Life® is predicted, falsely claiming that everybody has lost interest in SL except educators.
I was angry when publishing the comment which I reprint below (because, well, if I were a moderator at Valleywag [...]

24 Feb

Updating your social websites status from inside Second Life

If, like myself, you have no time and patience to keep updating all your dozens of social websites — from Twitter to Plurk to Facebook to FriendFeed, to your status on MySpace, Plaxo, Friendster, LinkedIn, or whatever becomes big next — you have certainly faced the following problem: you’re in SL, there is something you [...]

19 Feb

OpenSim Physics Engine Beats Linden Lab’s Havok

It’s not “news” but it shows how quickly the rate of progress has been on the OpenSim side of development. This video illustrates how “physical joints”, once the delight of SL, were re-introduced in OpenSim with merely a patch.
Linden Lab has long since abandoned joints, well before the upgrade to Havok 4, because they were [...]

14 Feb

Shift Happens

It’s an oldie, but “only” 5 or 6 million people are aware of this presentation, so, who knows, it might still be news for a few of you:
No need for further comments. Think twice before claiming that SL will end soon, or that the current crisis will crush the worldwide economy. It won’t happen. We live [...]

13 Feb

Philip’s Vision, 1999-2009 and Beyond [UPDATED]

Formerly known as “El Presidente” (a title now held by M Linden) and currently known as “Exortium”, Philip “Linden” Rosedale was always the driving force behind Linden Lab’s vision — and, to a degree, Second Life’s®. But on a recent interview to the Portuguese news radio TSF, he confesses that his original vision was slightly [...]

12 Feb

Philip Linden on Radio Show

Portugal’s leading news radio TSF has brought a reporter to “live” in Second Life for about 17 very intensive days, where he tried to capture what it means to be living in our world in a 45-minute show, to be aired today at 11:15 AM SLT.
Very likely the highlight of the show will be the [...]

03 Feb

Oneness Plus Two Equals Six: An Essay by Extropia DaSilva

  Another essay by the untiring Extropia for your pleasure! Enjoy — Gwyn
When two digital people meet for a chat in Second Life ®, there are at least six people involved in the conversation.
To help explain the reasoning behind that statement, I shall introduce a hypothetical digital person, known as ‘Digi’. Digi needs a friend, [...]

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