When M Linden took over the CEOship at Linden Lab, many of us have been dreading what would happen with Linden Lab’s open source projects. Specially when Zero Linden sort of put his own Office Hours on the backburner for four months or so. People worried about the worst, except […]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Granted, I know I’m biased 🙂 I like bleeding-edge technology, specially when it works; and I’m not trying out OpenSim for “political purposes” of any sort. As I keep repeating to friends, colleagues, and clients — OpenSim is cool, it’s even useful, but forget about “a cheap alternative to Second […]
Particle-master ArminasX Saiman has done an extensive research job of tracking down the 200 most read blogs of Second Life®, an astonishing feat by all accounts, patiently looking up their rankings on Technorati and figuring out if they were still active or not. While doing any list of “most read […]
At last I figured out how to publish my application key for Ping.fm, and this means I can release my latest mashup in a long series of gateways between Second Life and the outside world. If you have followed my blog lately, you’ll remember my ranting about the tough task […]
Art is about creativity, and art in Second Life, is more so 🙂 Sadly, it also means that you have to be specially creative to raise funding for art in SL. Ina Centaur‘s SL Shakespeare Company is now legendary: for a couple of years it has produced and staged Shakespearean […]
If you don’t know, you’re not alone! According to timeanddate.com, California is supposed to have followed the rest of the United States in changing to daylight savings time earlier today. However, if you log in to Second Life®, it still shows “PST” (Pacific Standard Time), e.g. the time without daylight […]
After a long period of discussion at the Architecture Working Group, which was trying to establish the ground-works of the Open Grid Protocol — a set of communication protocols defining a way for grids ran by different operators to interconnect and allow people to jump (teleport) from one to another, as well […]