Social Media and Virtual Worlds Commentary
Just a day after Pathfinder Linden, one of the ever-dying out “oldbies” still at Linden Lab announced his job had become obsolete and he was leaving as there was no alternative position for him there, the Lab post this on Facebook:
Tact. The Lab have none.
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Are Second Life residents easily exploitable?
An entrepreneur from London recently chanced upon Second Life after reading an article about it on BBC News. Reading up on the Second Life economy, he saw a niche which would save him thousands of dollars: Paying SL residents much less to do the same job, in return for “play [...]
Emerald Viewer began a crusade against privacy rights of Second Life users last week with the launch of its latest version. The rather harmless previous features which included bouncing breasts have been eclipsed by this latest version which allows users to see who has allowed map rights, and crucially, who has denied the right to see [...]
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Linden Lab have published their policy upon which third-party viewers which connect to Second Life must adhere to. It’s kinda an interesting read if you have too much time on your hands, suffer from insomnia and need help falling asleep, or write a blog. In my case, all three.
Third party viewers gained prominence around a [...]
Having been part of the testing group for the “new” Second Life Viewer 2 for several months, I pretty used to using it by now and for anyone who’s finding it difficult to get to grips with: relax – it’s easy once you stop clinging to the old format.
The new viewer represent a much cleaner [...]
At the moment, Linden Lab are profiting from its userbase in several different methods. The bulk is provided from buying sims and tiers, but then premium accounts also raise a healthy revenue. Every purchase and cashout of Lindens incurs a charge, as does transactions on XStreet SL. Classifieds in world and upload fees provide a [...]
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When it comes to computing, things are never 100%. Codes contain bugs and and things have a nasty habit of just breaking when you really need it not to. Even when something seems totally secure, like GMail, then someone else, such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, will open up backdoors which will lead to exploits [...]
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Google’s advert during the Superbowl was about someone falling in love with a Parisien, and using the Search Engine to find the answers as predicaments arose. Which, of course, is what the many residents of Second Life often do too, as is observed:
Yeah, I know there’s a couple of minutes of black space. I put [...]
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, and [...]
Mark Kingdon, the CEO of Linden Lab and known as M Linden in Second Life, left an interesting statement on the SL Blogs regarding the recent acquisition of Avatars United:
“When we talk to the users who sign up but then decide not to stay, they say they left, in part, because they had a hard [...]
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