Social Media and Virtual Worlds Commentary
I’m running slightly late with this, but these days, I’m lucky to get the time to post anything.
About a year ago, I made a bunch of predictions about where Second Life would be now, so I’ll kick off reviewing how those went:
1. SL concurrency is going to hit 150,000. Ha! I got this very very [...]
Remember me? I’m the one who gets bored of blogging more often than you change underwear. Which I’m willing to bet isn’t often, you filthy monkeys.
I’m popping up to reflect on the year that has been and to ponder what’s next.
The year kicked off with a bang in January as Linden Lab announced they had [...]
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It was a running joke for a good while that the Tech industry’s journalists kept a premature obituary on file for Second Life, in a similar fashion that the media outlets keep one in case someone famous hits the can.
Second Life (2003-2009)
Home to a passionate community of gamblers, paedophiles, terrorists, and a lot of sad [...]
Hype is a dangerous thing. Once you’re thrust into the public spotlight and it feels like everyone is staring at you, then one thing is inevitable. Some people will try their darn best to rip you down and destroy you.
Remember when Second Life was the media darling, and could do no wrong? The papers were [...]
There aren’t many success stories of RL companies coming into Second Life and “getting it”. One of the very few ones that did were Orange – they came into the metaverse with an open mind and studied the people and the culture.
What they did was engage the SL community and contribute through the arts and [...]
It started with the purchase of XStreet SL and Onrez. From that point on, I knew that Linden Lab no longer had an interest in simply watching the grid – they wanted to call the shots, and be the ones who ran the show. It was no longer about the creativity or imagination of the [...]
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So despite picking up an award, there are quite a lot of gripes to be had with the Second Life Resident Choice Awards. In the aftermath of the SL Awards, was it really all we thought it’d be?
Hmmm.. first off, were the categories. I think most people found them to be pretty, well, odd. I [...]
Second Life residents have voted Metaversally Speaking as their favourite blog on all things related to the virtual world!
I’ll admit it came as a huge surprise to me, especially considering how many other fantastic bloggers are out there, as well as many who have been around much longer than me.
I started Metaversally Speaking about a [...]
I’ve often tried to place the purpose of an SL magazine versus a blog on the virtual world. Both are free to view, and both provide the same information – news, editorials, photography, fashion, etc.. except that blogs are much quicker with their news, and magazines usually just serve as a recap of the previous [...]
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Flouncing is the trendy new thing to do, it seems.
I can’t get my head around why someone feels the need to carry on slating Second Life when they’ve left the virtual world, or why they continue using SL when they clearly have no love for it.
I asked around for opinions on why various people insist [...]
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