Thunderclap Morgridge has contributed to the Second Life® Wiki by creating a list of “known” trademarks that have or had a presence in Second Life. It is by no means complete, but feel free to add to it if you’re aware of more (specially outside the US). While we’re hoping […]
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My friend Ana Lutetia has invited me to write something about lag on her blog. Since lag was what we mostly got this weekend, I hope you’ll appreciate an update on what I had written about the subject over a year ago.
Here’s something I haven’t seen in many, many years. Yesterday, with Hair Fair hitting the grid as one of the most desired places to visit, and hundreds of exhibitors working hard to get their builds finished for SL6B, the grid suddenly started to misbehave, in a quite serious way (note: […]
Oh yes, Linden Lab, please let Khannea Suntztu‘s vision of Second Life in 2020 come true!
Fun, fun! Koinup, who have been so deeply engaged in SL (and, well, other virtual worlds too!) have sponsored the 1st Murku Comics Contest, and announced the winners today. Here’s what the jury deemed to be the best one: To do things like this, all you need is to grab […]
Well, there you go. Yes, Second Life® is still a bit cartoonish and not yet absolutely photo-realistic. Although, of course, with a little effort, good photos, some Photoshopping, and a shadows-enabled client, you can get pretty good results, as we all know. However, what about having cartoons in Second Life? […]
Sorry! This was, naturally, my April Fools prank for 2009 🙂 For some time we have speculated on the so-called Class 6 servers, whose specifications have been floating around for a long time now, but which Linden Lab had formally denied the existence. At the same time, with Linden Lab […]
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 […]
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 […]
The amazingly talented Damien Fate, who has been keenly developing his next-generation tiny avatars Loco Pocos, has launched two awesomely cool videos showing off flexible sculpties on his latest batch of Loco Pocos avatars! Flexible sculpties (or FlexiSculpties) are not part of LL’s plans to be integrated in SL soon. Still, […]
Oh yes, they’re here! As promised, with a few delays, Linden Lab finally released their new communication vehicle for the masses: a series of blogs under an unifying theme, with several categories — Features, Community, Working Inworld, Technology, Land and Sea, and Press. Not quite the way the Old Blogs were structured (where each […]
It’s an oldie, but “only” 5 or 6 million people are aware of this presentation, so, who knows, it might still be news for a few of you: No need for further comments. Think twice before claiming that SL will end soon, or that the current crisis will crush the […]
Portugal’s leading news radio TSF has brought a reporter to “live” in Second Life for about 17 very intensive days, where he tried to capture what it means to be living in our world in a 45-minute show, to be aired today at 11:15 AM SLT. Very likely the highlight […]