Monthly Archives: July 2009
Half a decade ago…
… I was sitting in front of my faithful old Apple PowerBook G4 laptop, on an island in the middle of the Atlantic, looking for a game that my roomie Moon Adamant wouldn’t find boring (she’s the gamer girl; I just enjoy watching her playing!) to play together. Since I had a Mac (while she has a PC), the task was a challenge: after SimCity, The Sims, and the amazing…
Obama becomes second President to use Second Life as a dissemination tool
I’ve failed to keep in touch with the cool things happening in Second Life®, and this one definitely was quite an encouraging one: US President Barack Obama, while on his state visit in Ghana, streamed his address to audiences in Second Life and Metaplace, something which for some reason failed to escape the watchful eyes of most of the mainstream media. Thankfully, we can rely on our faithful in-world journalists…
Second Life QuickStart Guide
Since many of you search this blog for beginner’s guides and similar information, I’m leaving here a few links that hopefully will help you on your first steps in Second Life®. Torley Linden has designed a wonderful Second Life QuickStart Guide which you can download from Amazon.com S3. And I still have my old Beginners Class available on SlideShare as well as something about SL Etiquette: Beginners Class to Second…
High-profile companies are definitely alive and kicking in Second Life
Contrary to some observations, Second Life has not been “abandoned” by all those high-profile companies. They’re still around, just more cautious about the media splash they generate. Amazon.com announced their Second Life Job Fair, starting today (July 14, 2009), which has been covered by Hamlet Au on New World Notes as well. Granted, Amazon.com has their own reasons for being in Second Life, one of which is how much Linden…
Offline in the Afterlife: An Essay by Extropia DaSilva
‘I’m the urban spaceman baby, here comes the twist: I don’t exist’ – Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band. On the 23rd June 2009 at 3:23 pm (pst), Gwyn said something rather strange. It probably did not strike her as such, and is not likely to seem odd to you either. That is because we are not evolved to understand death. But, we are jumping ahead of ourselves. First, I should reveal…
Kirstens Viewer S18 Strikes Back!
Guess what? This seems to be the month of SL clients competing on bleeding edge features and speed improvements! After my previous post — now outdated! — on comparing Linden Lab’s open source “Snowglobe” viewer with Kirstens Viewer, KirstenLee Cinquetti hasn’t been asleep. She obviously got hold of the open source ultra-fast texture download code and new rendering pipeline from Snowglobe, added the “Worn Items” tab from Imprudence, and created…
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