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Humble Governance
Early this year, my good friend Hiro Pendragon pointed out that I’m no good at predictions any longer, because I happen to be so disconnected from Second Life® these days that I “lost touch” with it. At the time he wrote that, I was actually shocked. I have one job which is about development content and applications for Second Life exclusively, and, unlike many Metaverse Development Companies (who have dropped…
Federation! (Goodbye, Google Plus)
After much careful thinking, I’ve decided to abandon Google Plus. The Nymwars have another victim! This was not a light decision to make. When I was kicked out of Facebook, I was naturally furious enough to grumble and complain, specially because I had used Facebook IDs to log in to some sites and games, and lost access to all of them. This was annoying, as well as losing contact to…
Innovation, yes, but wrong turn
These days, I have to humbly admit that I cannot keep up with the whole of Second Life. So I just read what others, who still can, write about SL, while remaining at my little corner of the virtual world and do my own things which nobody cares about But there is something I have noticed in the past few months. Like a crescendo finishing at SLCC, Linden Lab has been…
The Feeling of Self-Accomplishment in Second Life
In the past couple of years or so, I have to admit that I haven’t been as regular on Second Life as I wished. There are a lot of reasons for that, most of which work-related, and I have to include my own academic studies on that category as well. As a result, that also means less blogging, less socialisation, more isolation, and sticking to answering more boring emails from…
Open Letter to Google’s Larry Page
Video courtesy of Botgirl Questi Dear Larry, I don’t remember your handle in the days you were an active participant of the USENET, over a decade ago, when “web crawlers” and “search engines” were interesting mathematical problems to be tackled. To be honest, I don’t even remember my own handle those days. But what I remember very clearly is RFC 1855. Those days, we all abided by the Netiquette —…
Google+: Waving the Buzz away
Instead of working hard, which is what I should be doing, a minor health issue (at least I hope it’s minor!!) forced me to take an unwanted rest for a few days. By a mere coincidence, this was the week that Google decided to launch their new not-so-close-but-now-definitely-closed-again social service, Google Plus. Ironically, I was stuck on doing Second Life-to-social-networking integrations and needed a break, when my PhD supervisor managed…
Technical support from Dovogame rocks :)
Ok, ok, I know. This is not Second Life-related. It’s not even WordPress-related (my second love — aye, pun intended!). But when some company provides extraordinary tech support beyond what I’m expecting from them, they deserve what little acknowledgement I should give them. Three years ago, I did a comparison of tech support provided by Dreamhost, compared with Linden Lab, so there is a precedent in my blog for praising…
Meshed drama
A few weeks ago I took this picture near my home (it’s the white modern house by the river, just slightly to the right). I used slightly higher settings than I usually have as default — my old iMac is nearing collapse (lots of vertical stripes appearing on its LCD screen) and I’m back to the framerates of 2005 or so — but naturally this made me think a bit…
Goodbye, Facebook
If you’re an eager follower of Facebook, you’ll probably have noticed that there have been no recent updates from me. That’s right; I’ve been purged out of Facebook. I’ve toyed with the idea of uploading a fake ID card just to see what their reaction would be, or, failing that, to join any of the several class-action suits against Facebook’s policies on disabling accounts, but, at the end of the…
There are still financial institutions in Second Life…
Well, I have to admit that I was baffled today. A site I’ve subscribed to, long time ago, sent me an email saying that “their company was undergoing an IPO”. I just went… wow! A start-up company that did fancy web-based classifieds for Second Life® businesses, was already able to go IPO?? Hooray for the United States of America, where pretty much any mom-and-dad corner shop can go IPO if…
Facebook really sucks :P
The past few months have kept me away from Second Life, as so many of you have noticed — and from blogging in general; there is simply way too much for me to deal with on a daily basis that there has been little time left for anything else! Well, not quite. Against my own better judgement, I’ve been using Facebook a bit more, on my three accounts. Yes, three…
Facebook integration
All right, all right, the other post was obviously an April Fool’s post… nevertheless, two things are half-serious, and worth thinking a bit. The first one was not really a joke. Tipodean did release its Unity3D, Web-based Second Life viewer as an open beta (previously, it was being tested as closed beta). You can really jump over to the BuiltBuy.me webpage, fill in the details, and run SL-on-Unity3D-on-the-Web — really….
Your Second Life online status on a WordPress widget, take three [UPDATED AGAIN]
I’ve been postponing this literally for… years. On the very first weeks after I started blogging about Second Life, I wanted people to look at my blog and see if I was online in SL or not. It would be a very simple way to promote the cool way that Second Life allowed us to interact with external sites. Back then, we just had XML/RPC, and you had to email…
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