Monthly Archives: September 2009
Step UP! for Content Creation Theft Awareness
The untiring Gwen Carillon, one of the best jewelry creators in Second Life, and the long-time president of the Content Creators Association, a SL organisation “to support, inform and assist creators in protection of original content and other content related issues”, has launched a new project: Step UP! for Content Creators, a new way to raise awareness for content creation theft in Second Life. Gwen, perhaps unlike many others, is…
SLActions — Mixed-media research conference
So how do you get hundreds of researchers to simultaneously present their papers at different places in the world, on a conference spanning the globe? The ingenuous solution: use Second Life. Starting today, and going on until the 26th, SLactions is live. Researchers in virtual worlds all over the world will be presenting their work and results to their colleagues, and they’re using Second Life to join the conference. So…
September 19: Talk Like A Pirate Day!
It’s today! And if you still don’t know how to talk like a pirate, nothing like getting one Pirate Translator HUD, like my own GUUD Simple Pirate Translator 1.0, available from XStreetSL and a few scattered in-world locations for your pleasure: Colonia Nova Ross Io Then take a look at the events list for today and see what pirate-y goodness awaits your pleasure. Avast! What be your waitin’ for? Send…
Second Life Jewelry Fair 2009 opens today!
Ready to admire some creative work in accessories for your beloved avatar? Well, what better opportunity but to take a jump to the Jewelry Fair 2009, which opens today … there go my few remaining L$, lol. Ah well. Most of it goes to charity anyway. Send article as PDF to
TED talks come back to Second Life!
TEDxEdges (http://tedxedges.com) is TED‘s programme for local initiatives, where a conference takes place in a specific country of region, following in general the same format and with the same quality of the ever so popular TED Talks, but independently organised. Tomorrow, September 18th, they will be physically in Lisbon, Portugal, and the topic will be “The Case-Studies of Finland and Israel — Promotion of an IT Cluster: a new technological model…
Supporting business in Second Life seriously
This article requires a disclaimer. I am by no means a disinterested party, but a heavilly biased one. My own company, Beta Technologies, has officially launching the Beta Business Park on September 15th, 2009. Obviously you will expect me to support the whole concept and not be too skeptical about it. But I still find it worthwhile to expand a bit on the reason why my company feels this to…
The Social Experiment
When I first left the Orientation Island on my rezday, a bit over five years ago, I remember to have bumped into (literally!) a lot of immensely creative residents. What they built on sandboxes was simply awesome and kept me amazed for hours upon hours. But what amazed me most was that the majority of residents back then were not top-of-the-line 3D modellers, designers, or architects. They still did utterly…
Evaluating Blue Mars — an open letter to Avatar Reality’s representatives
Jumping into Blue Mars earlier today — while my roomie was asleep and I could use her PC, the only machine at our place that is powerful enough (and has the correct operating system!) to log in to Blue Mars and get some 8 FPS out of it — was a bit like evaluating many other virtual world platforms out there: the only interesting people I met were the Second…
Spot the differences!
As you might now by know, developers are all itching to jump into the Blue Mars bandwagon, the major reason being the disappointment with LL’s apparent lack of effort in keeping their 3D engine up to “modern day standards”, whatever they are. In any case, we have been told by the expert games developers how outdated and limited the LL engine is, over the years. Blue Mars has no such…
Real Politics Made Virtual
If you take a look at the image to the left, you might imagine it’s the latest machinima for promoting something in Second Life®. After all, machinimas are getting better and better, and since virtual world sales (or shows; or events; or whatever) are definitely worth the expense to do a promotional video that looks awesome, you might be right. However, you’d be probably quite surprised to figure out that…
Flowers in your hair
If you’re going to San Francisco Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair If you’re going to San Francisco You’re gonna meet some gentle people there [...] – The Mamas & the Papas, “San Francisco” (1967) On the very first day I visited a public sandbox, Cyrus Apollo, whom I had no idea who he was, gave me an unexpected gift: a white rose, handicrafted with care and love…
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