Social Media and Virtual Worlds Commentary
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 [...]
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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Linden Lab are preparing Viewer 2.0 for Public Beta which may or may not include the elusive mesh importing function which was proudly showed off at last year’s Second Life Community Convention.
Mesh imports will pave the way for a new level of content within Second Life, much in the same way as sculpties changed the [...]
The Modular Systems developers behind the GreenLife Emerald Viewer have terminated the rights of an another viewer to use their software as a basis for creating a derivative.
Emerald Viewer has rapidly become one of the Second Life grid’s most popular third-party viewers, and under its GNU General Public license 2.0, distributes the open source code to [...]
I’ve been aware of a website for a little while which has been operating under the pretence of a marketplace. It works in a similar way to other marketplaces like XStreetSL, except that all the products on there are listed as free.
Except they’re not free at all.
Virtualget.net has been operating for a couple of months [...]
Well of course, the answer to that is no. It’s not.
But there are very few other things in Second Life which unites the grid. You don’t see any mainstream blogs coming out and saying “You know what? I love me some content theft”. You don’t chat with your friends about what you recently ripped from [...]
A few days ago, I had the pleasure of having a long chat with Arwyn Quandry and Vaughan Vendetta about the problems that Copybot has caused on the Teen Grid (TG). Vaughan is a current resident on the Teen Grid whereas Arwyn recently came of age and made the transfer to the Main Grid (MG). [...]
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One of the things you quickly realise between being a blogger and a content creator is that you have to weigh up when to give coverage to such a tool as Copybot, and what the ramifications are to yourself as a content creator.
I’ve known about copybot clients for years now, but I’ve always refused to [...]
I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again.
The chances of being copybotted are very slim. The chances of you suffering at the hands of copybot are very slim.
Now awareness is one thing which I’ll happily support – but there’s a sensible way of doing it. When you start panicking yourself that the grid is doomed and [...]
If you didn’t see this coming, then you really should have. It was only a matter of time before someone disgruntled enough took the legal route to take a lashing at Linden Lab. This case has arisen and has been pounced on by numerous SL blogs.
Who is it?
Well it involves two named plaintiffs. The first [...]
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