This weekend it’s time for the annual Second Life Community Convention. With more than 800 attendees, this will be the largest SLCC ever. Congratulations to the organisation, and my wishes that the attendees get a lot of fun being there — although, very likely, this year it’ll be way more […]
In “Life 2.0: Augmentationists in Second Life and beyond“, Giulio Prisco writes on the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies’ blog about Second Life’s social changes due to the introduction of voice. The discussion went through the way immersionists disdain the use of voice as a too disruptive technology in […]
These days, you cannot avoid to discuss the legal implications that govern Second Life from the point of view of “real life”, real legislation, and real governments… My best source of information so far has been the fantastic “Virtually Blind” blog by Benjamin Duranske. If you’re interested in following the […]
I came across a very nice blog describing the issues with commerce and business in Second Life. The author is Myst Panther and she has an interesting style in writing, providing both advice in dealing with conflicts of interest in Second Life, but also gives out some good tips on […]
Three years ago, when I was learning how to integrate Second Life with external web servers in the summer of 2004, I posted some code for figuring out your online status from a website, blog, forum, etc. The tricky bit at the time was that XML-RPC requires a ‘channel’, which […]
Recently, Gareth Ellison, one of the promoters of the Open Source Grid, did a promotional event by being in-world to explain how exactly the OS Grid works and how people can connect to it. The OS Grid is one of several that run the reverse-engineered (but Linden-approved) Open Grid Services […]
My deep apologies for the past week without access to my blog. It was a true nightmare figuring out what was wrong, and neither me nor the DreamHost technical support managed to fully understand what was wrong. In utter despair, I’ve even moved the whole installation to another server (one […]
In the world of user-submitted content that is Second Life, and having such a lack of information available (several wikis, some of which semi-abandoned, others still growing), it’s nice to see someone offering a hands-on approach to information for new residents: SL Tutorials, a place where anyone can submit their […]
Second Life Residents woke up on Wednesday, July 25th, to the sudden (but not wholly unexpected) change of Linden Lab’s policy regarding gambling in Second Life. After advertising casinos was removed from all Linden-supported advertisement systems, this move should not have come as a huge surprise. We all knew that […]
Don’t forget to join Second Life’s largest charity event, promoted by the American Cancer Society to raise funds for victims of cancer!Second Life Relay for Life ’07 is up and running (pun intended!) and you can just jump straight in to the track, visit the lovely sims, and make sure […]
Press release In a ceremony to be held in the Senate Room of the University of Aveiro, the Portuguese Ministry of Justice, in cooperation with the University of Aveiro and the Faculty of Law of the Lisbon New University, will today launch an ‘e-Justice Centre’, a mediation and arbitration centre, […]
This is what we sometimes hear from fellow residents in Second Life. It’s not exactly from new users, either — Second Life Insider’s Tateru Nino has been running a series of interviews on new users that have, indeed, found SL fascinating. No, the comment is actually made by a very […]
No, it’s not a joke — just take a look at Katharine Berry’s blog! It’s AJAX-based, and of course it doesn’t give you 50 FPS on an old web browser, but the whole concept is simply amazing!