Social Media and Virtual Worlds Commentary
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 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 [...]
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 homepage, you’ll see that [...]
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 [...]
I came across an early Apple advert for the Internet which I remember seeing years back on TV.
I guess that would have been my generation as the kids who are answering the question of “What would you do with the internet?”. I’m guessing I wouldn’t have answered “Become a virtual worlds developer” at the age [...]
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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 they had [...]
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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 to [...]
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 [...]
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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