Posts in the "Metaverses" Category

• Vultures Who Feed on the Death of a Metaverse

  Metaverses
  

  Yesterday I wrote about the closure of metaverse There.com, which announced it was closing its doors after running out of money. Reactions in the comments was somewhat mixed, but what I found interesting was the idea that Second Life should appeal to the users of There.com and encourage them to join SL. Although I haven’t [...]

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• Censorship and the Metaverse

  Linden Lab
  

  A somewhat underlying theme of the web revolves around it being this community which promotes the free and equal access to information and production, as well as disintegrating the levels of hierarchy and institution. It stems from the early years of the internet when the World Wide Web was advocated by the political activists on the 1960s, [...]

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• Legend City Offline

  Business
  

      There was a fair bit said about Metaplace shutting down their virtual world over the New Year, but you know who else shut their doors? Why, our lovely friends at Legend City Online have shut down their grid, and removed their website. Well, sort of. If you go to the Legend City Online [...]

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• Will Linden Lab GOM a Viewer?

  Articles
  

  This whole thing over the regulation of Third Party viewers is pretty interesting. Linden Lab are again flexing their claws and this time showing the grid who’s the big boss by clamping down on the runaway viewers which have illicit functions built into them. Again, this is one of those things we all saw coming, [...]

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• "Fix Stuff, Dammit!"

  Business
  

  You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed, and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I’ll show you just how deep the rabbit hole goes. Linden Lab have done some pretty curious things recently, and it’s all happening [...]

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• Linden Lab buy XStreet SL and OnRez

  Articles
  

  Well it appears I have to suck it up after dismissing what I said to be vendetta-driven rumours have turned out to actually be true – Linden Lab have acquired the two major website-based marketplaces: XStreet SL and OnRez. I didn’t think this would happen for the simple reason that I thought it would be [...]

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• Come Together

  Articles
  

  I can’t say I was very surprised when I heard Philip Linden say he wants to see Second Life be for “all ages” in the future. The fact is that Teen Grid is a ghost town at best. The grid has been suffering from downturn in active users, and the disabled signups of international users [...]

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• Metaverses: Future and Economy

  Business
  

  This year and the next will see the public release of new metaverses which run off fancy engines with names like “UNREAL” and “CRY”. Ummm.. okay, maybe “CRY” was a bad example, but my point is that the new metaverses are going to have graphics and physics to a very high level of detail. Avatar [...]

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• LCO: Spades and Mountains

  Business
  

  Well I am suprised as it appears Legend City Online did break their silence and reply to blog posts made yesterday regarding the “ousting” of Simone Stern from their grid. They’re claiming that Simone had fallen behind on the tier payments which she had agreed to pay, and as a result her assets in world [...]

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• Legend City Online: The End?

  Business
  Well it seems those kids over at Legend City Online have done it yet again! After former employee DocWes Legend called out LCO’s management for failure to pay him for the work he’d done on Metaversally Speaking, and insisted that their practices outlined in their Terms of Service were dubious and that users should be [...]

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