2009 comes to an end, and after the traditional snowball fight with the Lindens, where residents redefine the concept of physics-induced lag by shooting everything in sight with utter prejudice, it’s time to relax, rethink about what went wrong in 2009, and how 2010 will look like. Keeping in tradition, […]
Yearly Archives: 2009
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I’ve added a few thoughts on the first-hour experience in Second Life on my other blog. We all know that M Linden’s top priority is dealing with the first-hour experience of newbies and trying to get a better retention rate. Apparently, 99% of all new users leave before a month […]
Proudly announced as “1MAG is more than just a fashion magazine in Second Life!”, this new magazine, created by Elettra Blachere and Jhao Oh, is the latest editorial inroad into publishing for a Second Life®-specific audience. You can join the in-world group “1MAG – International Magazine” (click here to join) […]
Drax sent me the above video, which is a nice way to tie this to the Copenhagen conference 🙂 What amazes me is the quality of the video overall — specially in these days where so many people still think that the SL rendering engine is “outdated” and such. You […]
Four years after Darwin published ‘On The Origin Of Species’, Samuel Butler was calling for a theory of evolution for machines. Most attempts at such a theory have tried to frame it in terms of the steady accumulation of changes, recognisable as Darwinian. But natural selection has certain limitations. For […]
I can’t stop watching this one. Ill Clan, you guys are amazing! Forget the stupid comments on that video 🙂 and just enjoy the experience… More videos from Linden Lab.
I’ve written a few thoughts on my other blog about LL’s announced policy changes for XStreetSL, the value of items in Second Life, and why I seriously think that the freebie/dollarbie economy is not such a good think after all, in spite of Dusan Writer’s belief that it is ultimately […]
I’ve been accused of being “too gentle” with BBC and their intern, Lauren Hansen… but Heather Michon hasn’t been, nor Hamlet Au. BBC hasn’t yet added any comments new on the past two days, which just shows the kind of reaction they’re getting about their article 🙂
You might have read by now BBC’s shockingly poor article on Second Life (yes, it’s another one of those “SL is dead” articles). It might shock you even more to know that M Linden had given them an interview which was mostly neglected and ignored; Linden Lab graciously published the […]
I’ve tried to dispel some myths and rumours around Linden Lab’s latest enterprise-class product offerings on my other blog. I hope it clarifies some questions and doubts 🙂 Comments are welcome over there…
Here I am, at what might be my last picture as a Mentor on a Help Island. Why? Linden Lab has just discontinued the Mentor Programme. A shock to many of the 1,600 Mentors (down from a group that has once had up to 3,500 volunteers) that have been faithfully […]