A decade ago, information about Second Life® was scarce. Newbies would drop into a Brave New World and get completely confused. There were in-world volunteers — and the Linden Liaisons — to help you out, but often it was hard to assemble a lot of information to get you going. […]
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I wrote a short article on meta-culture and the multi-cultural environment in SL for a new blog/magazine for Portuguese speakers called “Convergences Magazine”. It’s an intriguing project by Gper Aeon and Gabriela Pinelli, mixing art, culture, and philosophy about and around Second Life. If you’re fine in reading Portuguese, or […]
A few reasons why the SL 2.0 viewer will revolutionise Second Life (even though many might not like the change) on my other blog 🙂
Is Linden Lab losing their vision, or at least their visionary? Without his resident visionary, will Linden Lab develop Second Life® further to reach the goal of becoming “a marketplace that could sustain hundreds of millions of players” and “[…] connect us all to an online world that advances the […]
Hiro Pendragon pointed me to the latest bit of Valleywag nonsense, where you can see that once more the End of Second Life® is predicted, falsely claiming that everybody has lost interest in SL except educators. I was angry when publishing the comment which I reprint below (because, well, if […]
Introduction Linden Research Inc., a company incorporated in Delaware, United States of America (“Linden”), doing business as Linden Lab®, developers of the Second Life® virtual world platform, owners of not only the Second Life® registered trademark (in the US, Europe, and other countries), and the eye-on-hand logo, but also of […]
[Sorry everybody, but this was (perhaps not obviously!) my April Fool’s joke! — Gwyn] Some of you might have heard my rants about the bad service provided by the ever-so-popular PayPal, to the extent that I start to believe some of these hate sites. After going through cancellation of my […]
Chip Midnight is often in the forums telling people how to design perfectly-matched clothes. His ‘secret’ in developing wonderful new templates, based both on Linden Lab’s? own, and on images he has captured in-world to understand where the many avatar polygons join together. This upper body template is an attempt […]