The recent announcement that one of the most popular e-zines for Second Life, Second Life Insider — a year-old collaborative blog with SL’s best authors — was “transformed” into Massively deserved several comments from popular bloggers of the SLogosphere (I’m eagerly awaiting the opinion of Hamlet Au on New World […]
I admit — having no TV at home, it means that I only get to watch TV very occasionally, when together with friends on their own homes. CSI is usually popular with some of them, and I tend to watch it whenever I’ve got a chance, although over here in […]
This might go mostly unnoticed, but on Wednesday, October 10, 2007, Second Life officially has ten million registered accounts. Statistics are mostly irrelevant at this stage (what exactly is a “registered account”?) but it shows the growth — about this time, last year, Second Life was a tenth of the size… Obviously […]
No, this is not about Europeans having now to pay Value Added Tax to Linden Lab — I’ve covered it on SLOG already — but something far more unexpected: Havok4 Is Here On The Beta Grid! In a completely unexpected turn of events, it seems that a “secret team of Linden developers” […]
Just read Cat Gisel’s poem. It’s hilarious!
It seems like yesterday, when a group of about 60 people or so opened up their self-governed, democratic community in the old mainland snow sim of Anzere. Three years later, in spite of constant predictions to the contrary, Neufreistadt (Confederation of the Democratic Simulators) and their sister group on the […]
Well, I don’t know, but you’re welcome to discuss it at the New World Notes 🙂 Thanks to Hamlet Au for publishing the article!
Although it doesn’t come as a surprise to many of us, Linden Lab has slowly gathering up momentum on their future development strategy for Second Life, which, as we all know, is making the whole code open source. We know now that the major reason for doing so is not […]
Thanks to Rad Hand for having demonstrated Vlad Bjornson’s fantastic animated, morphed scupties. How does this work? It’s very clever: you send a QuickTime stream that has several sculpties in sequence. These, in turn, will make the sculptie’s texture be changed as the QT stream enters your computer. As sculpties […]
Encouraged by Hamlet Au’s article on how Japan is growing its number of SL residents, I thought I should do some statistics as well, just to keep everybody amused in what you can find out about Second Life. Hamlet has this breakthrough announcement that “Japan Residents Surpass Europe”. What he […]
So, identity validation is upon us “soon”. Having let the message sink in — after all, it’s no surprise, Linden Lab has been talking about it for quite a while — it’s time to try to understand the implications. In other words, like LL likes to call it, a post-mortem […]
I don’t know if I should blame or thank Ana Lutetia for finally “convincing” me to join Twitter… At this stage, I’m pretty much afraid I’ll regret this immensely! In case you’re really interested, here is the link to my account…
For anyone looking at the current misinformation (deliberate or not) being spread around by some of the media, mostly in the US, but progressively abroad, the outlook is grim. The media are incredibly powerful at creating and destroying giants. Deliberately spreading false claims and erroneous statistics is more than enough […]