Estonia, a small member state of the European Union with 1.3 million inhabitants living by the Baltic Sea, has since the 1990s been labelled as one of the leading “Information Age” countries, having a surprisingly high penetration rate of computer use and Internet. They’re very strong supporters of e-voting and […]
Yearly Archives: 2007
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I just wished to thank all my friends that so nicely wished me a Merry Christmas! For all of you and your families, my sincere wishes of a wonderful holiday!
Last year, American Apparel, a popular US clothes brand, opened a shop in Second Life with a lot of positive press. Avatars could get for a few L$ relatively faithful replicas of their clothes in SL. Their project lasted almost a year or so, and then, as they finished their […]
The SLogosphere has been busily trying to “interpret” the meaning of the Electric Sheep Company’s layoff of about a third of their workforce and since some of their projects are being shut down, there have been all kinds of wild speculations. There isn’t a real official press release about the […]
Prokofy Neva has released his predictions for 2008 which make for very interesting reading, even if his predictions for 2007 were actually not close to the mark, but made for interesting reading nevertheless. Sadly, Typepad (the software his blog runs under) thinks that my comments are “spamming” (well, who knows…) […]
Extropia DaSilva is back with another one of her fantastic essays. Enjoy! — Gwyn In part one of this essay, we examined that most infamous of dystopian nanotech outcomes, the ‘grey goo’ of self-replicating machines. In this second part the view shall be widened as we examine how molecular manufacturing […]
Ana Lutetia tagged me! Oh no! This means I now have to write eight things about myself, and tag another eight people to do the same. This is almost like spamming. Help! Well, let’s start with the rules: Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves. People who are […]
I found this very interesting blog entry, thanks to my friends: http://youthedesigner.com/2007/11/30/20-horrible-habits-of-clients/ It’s done by a web designer, but it applies exactly to Second Life as well. Customers are customers everywhere!
In my never-ending quest of looking for fashionable improvements (believe me, it can entertain me for ages 🙂 ) I found out a cute thing about some fancy shoes: they have nice, realistic-sounding, heel-clicking sounds. Sure, I know it’s a “novelty” item — it scares people off the first time […]
Every girl who tried a flexiskirt once (how can you resist not buying them…?) knows about the problem: they look fantastic when standing up, but completely nasty when sitting down. The image here shows what happens. Flexiskirts, unlike mesh-based skirts (also known as ugly Linden skirts) simply don’t follow your […]
… you don’t know where the fashionable shops are! Now, thanks to Ana Lutetia, you’ll know. Thanks, Ana, for providing this crucial information 🙂
Just the other day, when I was at a RL event featuring Second Life marginally, a bright young journalist came over to me and my business partner Eggy Lippmann. He had been around in SL for a few weeks and had chatted with people, and was looking for the “latest […]
Linden Lab is definitely spoiling us. One day after the release of a new Release Candidate with the awesome in-world Search, Linden Lab released a new WindLight client! We all knew that they had it “almost finished” for previewing and gathering data, but I guess it was a surprise to […]