Posts in the "Business" Category

• Second Life 2.0(10) – Predictions!

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  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 [...]

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• So, What’s Next?

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  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 [...]

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• Emerald Viewer Developers Bare Their Teeth

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  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 [...]

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• The Neverending Story of the Second Life Obituary

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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 [...]

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• Hype

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  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 [...]

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• The Scam of Virtualget.net

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  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 [...]

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• Copybot – Is it a Good Thing?

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  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 [...]

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• Copybot and the Teen Grid

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  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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• Copybot – The Blogger’s Dilemma

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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 [...]

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• Copybot – Some Context

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  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 [...]

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