I’ve been a great fan of Alexa over a decade ago when this traffic-ranking site appeared, under different forms, and with a different purpose. Now, among the 2 or 3 billion sites in the world, it shows the pretty traffic these sites have. New World Notes recently made it to […]
Monthly Archives: December 2006
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A new SL newspaper — another one in PDF format — has recently been launched in SL. The AvaStar, with the motto “Your World. Your Voice.”, is published by Gregor Ginsberg (chairman of German publishers Bild.T-Online AG & Co. KG), and is a professional tabloid newspaper for the residents of […]
Oh Christmas Tree….Oh Originally uploaded by Tigerzeye. At this point, I think it’s appropriate to wish you all, faithful readers, the season’s greetings, have a very happy holiday, hopefully with your friends and family, and quote my own father on this: “Enjoy yourselves and don’t spend too much” 🙂 As […]
This started as a “joke” between Mentors (volunteers in Second Life that are willing to spend some time with new users and answer their questions…), but soon it became a FAQ of its own. Yes, most of these are indeed “first ever questions” that almost everybody starts to ask as […]
Back in early 2006, Cory & Philip kindly gave us a preview of what they would be doing during 2006 in terms of development of its platform. Everything except in-world HTML (Havok was not on the list) was deployed, mostly during the summer of 2006, thus giving us all a […]
I’m have been accused of being an “intellectual” because I have a blog and actually use a spell checker to verify my ortography 🙂 So, to make sure nobody takes me seriously, I have become suddenly inspired by reading yet another Dilbert book by Scott Adams, and, blatantly copying his […]
Extropia DaSilva is back with another essay, and this time, she’ll be “going quantic” on Second Life. Explaining complex science using Second Life as an example, she’ll take you through a voyage through time and space, making you realise that “common sense” and “quantum mechanics” cannot be employed in the […]
[UPDATE 2007-01-07] Prokofy Neva and Torley Linden (thanks guys!) reported that the comments were broken — they would get some sort of redirection to the homepage and “lose” the whole comment. Sorry to everybody who was unable to post any comments. I found out what was seriously wrong: I had […]
There are so many uh “professionals” claiming that all Linden Lab does is incompetently handled and amateurish and that they don’t know a thing about how to deliver updates, maintain a grid, or develop software overall… Well, I also claim my share of professionalism 😉 Yes, I’ve worked for ISPs […]
A very interesting comment on what the future of virtual worlds might bring us: http://www.dansdata.com/gz064.htm Fun to read 🙂