Monthly Archives: March 2009
Philip Linden Announces New Open Source Model for the Second Life Client
When M Linden took over the CEOship at Linden Lab, many of us have been dreading what would happen with Linden Lab’s open source projects. Specially when Zero Linden sort of put his own Office Hours on the backburner for four months or so. People worried about the worst, except for the Luddite gang, of course, which was happy to see open source efforts to become a lower priority. Then…
OpenSimulator 0.6.3 – The Stability Era?
Granted, I know I’m biased I like bleeding-edge technology, specially when it works; and I’m not trying out OpenSim for “political purposes” of any sort. As I keep repeating to friends, colleagues, and clients — OpenSim is cool, it’s even useful, but forget about “a cheap alternative to Second Life”. All what you save on not paying tier to Linden Lab goes into improving the hardware and bandwidth of your…
Second Life’s Most Read Blogs
Particle-master ArminasX Saiman has done an extensive research job of tracking down the 200 most read blogs of Second Life®, an astonishing feat by all accounts, patiently looking up their rankings on Technorati and figuring out if they were still active or not. While doing any list of “most read blogs” and selecting a criterium for ranking them will always be a subject to discussion, ArminasX has at least had…
More social microblogging – with Ping.fm!
At last I figured out how to publish my application key for Ping.fm, and this means I can release my latest mashup in a long series of gateways between Second Life and the outside world. If you have followed my blog lately, you’ll remember my ranting about the tough task of keeping in touch with all those microblogging features, that have long left Twitter and Plurk, and completely dominate Facebook…
Sushi girl!
Art is about creativity, and art in Second Life, is more so Sadly, it also means that you have to be specially creative to raise funding for art in SL. Ina Centaur‘s SL Shakespeare Company is now legendary: for a couple of years it has produced and staged Shakespearean plays on their own SL reconstruction of The Globe, with a mix of very talented (voice) actors, performing live in front…
Second Life’s New Red Light District
I’m sure that most of you have seen by now LL’s latest blog post about the upcoming changes in the rules for Adult Content in Second Life®. This is one of those cases where there is no “right” or “wrong” way to address the issue: depending on your country’s laws, your own morality, your stance towards freedom of expression, your business use of Second Life, or your position as an…
What Time Is It?! [UPDATE]
If you don’t know, you’re not alone! According to timeanddate.com, California is supposed to have followed the rest of the United States in changing to daylight savings time earlier today. However, if you log in to Second Life®, it still shows “PST” (Pacific Standard Time), e.g. the time without daylight savings. For us living on Europe, it’s always a challenge to figure out when the US switches hours, since they…
Politics and Interoperability Standards
After a long period of discussion at the Architecture Working Group, which was trying to establish the ground-works of the Open Grid Protocol — a set of communication protocols defining a way for grids ran by different operators to interconnect and allow people to jump (teleport) from one to another, as well as to exchange content among them — Linden Lab has decided to make a big, bold step ahead: after 16…
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