It is rather rare that Philip has some free time left to give us a piece of his mind. Thus, it’s very refreshing to see his latest entry on the Official Linden Blog, stating Linden Lab’s mission.
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You might find this “metaverse short story” interesting… specially because the author never logged in to Second Life (although he has heard of it)! Architects do really understand what SL is all about.
Of course we all know that this number only means: “one million of avatar names with valid UUIDs on Linden Lab’s database servers for Second Life” and not really “one million users”. Still, it’s a nice metric, and one nice to follow since the end of Beta in June 2003 […]
Reuters has now a special channel for Second Life — http://secondlife.reuters.com, brought to us through the amazing work done by the ever so bright Electric Sheep Company. I don’t know exactly what that means. Again, all I can say is that worldwide, news snippets are being sent to the media […]
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Well, at least that’s what they’re “showing off” with the new Economy statistics: http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/10/02/new-statistics-on-second-life-population-growth-and-the-economy-now-available/trackback/ It’s interesting to see that a few hundreds of people are actually able to live off Second Life, or, at the very least, have a very interesting and profitable part-time job!
Edward Castronova is believed to be the world’s leading researcher on virtual world economies. Recently, in a post on Terra Nova, the ultimate blog offering news and opinions regarding the social, economic, legal, psychological, and political aspects of these worlds, Castronova, reporting on the recent security breach in SL, asked […]
I don’t know if this is the first time ever if Second Life gets listed as a “country” in a website, but this is deliberate. Arin & Susan have arranged to have their feature movie to be premiered in Second Life… provided that there is enough interest for that. As […]
Thanks to moo Money, I was pointed to this amazing piece of software called Crazy Talk 4, which is able to do all sorts of very creative lipsynching, very easily, using just a few pictures uploaded from Second Life (or… well… basically anything, really!). Sadly, this is the sort of […]
After finishing a 2-month-long marathon to make a “proof of concept” machinima using Second Life for a customer, I just saw this post on the Official Linden Blog. Yes, for four days you’ll be able to get a valid license key of Poser 5 in your name. 🙂 Although Content […]
It should be mentioned somewhere that Second Life has reached 300,000 users as of today 🙂 Congratulations to all, Linden Lab and the whole bunch of Second Life residents that have faithfully registered in the past three years to make this platform and virtual world grow.