Monthly Archives: May 2009
Google’s Ultimate Mashup, The End of Web 2.0, and More Metaverse Wannabees
Congratulations to Google — after the announcement of Google Wave, we can finally close the chapter on Web 2.0, or, rather, Web 2.0 Release Candidate. We’ve finally left 2.0 behind to enter the dramatic new age of Web 2.1. You might say to yourself, “oh no, this is just another Facebook clone, why should we share Gwyn’s enthusiasm this time?” Appearances are delusive Read on to understand why this announcement…
News from the Eastern Front
Creative residents protest against the way Linden Lab set up the test sims for Adult verification. Although some might have found it funny, most are a bit put off by the electric fences and special effects, reminiscent of a Nazi concentration camp. I personally found it funny, but I can imagine the protesters who set up the boards above didn’t find it funny at all. Tateru Nino, after some interviews, is…
The Gold Solution Providers Programme
A few of us who are in Second Life® mostly for business have long ago complained to Linden Lab, in the years of 2005 and 2006 mostly, how little they cared about businesses in SL, and how little effort they put in expanding and opening the virtual world to healthy business from the real world. In those days, SL was viewed by LL as a “cool place” for designers, talented…
Esoteric immersionism
For years, residents have been incredibly worried about the way Second Life® has been viewed by the media: a place for freaks to come out and escape from the harsh reality of so-called “real life”. Escapism, and its step brother, sex, was what made the news — and from there, drama ensued, and drama sold papers (or TV spots, or blog pages), which in turn got more advertisers, so, that’s…
Second Life: 4% of World-Wide Market Share in Telephony and Digital Content Economy
A few days ago, I tweeted about some intriguing statistics that Linden Lab never really publishes, and which I actually asked out loud why not. Probably someone at the ‘Lab picked them up (or it’s all just a holistic coincidence…) and told Lewis PR to get this press release out. I’m glad they did it, but appalled at Linden Lab’s humbleness and meekness. Were I writing a Press Release about…
Khannea Suntzu’s Preview of Second Life in 2009
Oh yes, Linden Lab, please let Khannea Suntztu‘s vision of Second Life in 2020 come true! Send article as PDF to
Second Life: The Most Used Social Media Tool – By FAR!
Almost everybody who’s reading this article has grown up with metrics on the ‘net. From the very beginning, Internet Service Providers were happy to tell everybody how many users they had (assuming they had a lot, of course); I remember the wars between “active paying users” and “number of email addresses”, perhaps the first time the issue about metrics was raised. With the Web, we entered a new stage, where…
Koinup sponsors Second Life-based Murku Comics Contest
Fun, fun! Koinup, who have been so deeply engaged in SL (and, well, other virtual worlds too!) have sponsored the 1st Murku Comics Contest, and announced the winners today. Here’s what the jury deemed to be the best one: To do things like this, all you need is to grab a copy of the Murku HUD, which was designed to facilitate the creation of comics out of SL. All you…
Social Website Dysphoria
It has been a terribly busy three weeks for me, with little time free for posting… between a round of Second Life® Evangelisation and attending to some clients who are physically away from my home city, I’ve been on the road (well, mostly on the train really…) across my tiny country, but still managed to do close to 5,000 km or so. Incredibly tiring!! And, of course, I couldn’t help…
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