Posts in the "Second Life" Category

• Hype

  Articles
  

  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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• Immersive Avatars

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  I saw Surrogates recently, which stars Bruce Willis as an FBI agent in a world where people minimise risk to themselves by living their life through an artificial being which is an idealised representation of who they want to be. Sound familiar at all? The whole idea seems rather far fetched, even if we are [...]

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• Copybot – Is it a Good Thing?

  Business
  

  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 – Some Context

  Business
  

  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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• Orange Island Closes

  Business
  

  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 [...]

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• When the Lab Wades In..

  Business
  

  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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• A Bad Dream

  Musings
  

  I wake up, it’s a bad dream, No one on my side, I was fighting But I just feel too tired to be fighting, guess I’m not the fighting kind. I’ve always thought that with so much energy going into bickering over petty dramas, or people trying to bring others down with their inane and [...]

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• Stroker and Nomine versus Linden Lab

  Business
  

  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. [...]

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• The Periodic Table of SL Abbreviations and Emoticons

  Humour
  In any culture, the people will over time develop their own phrases and words which are unique to them. They tend to be words and phrases which they understand, but outsiders may not. Those in close proximity to this culture will understand some phrases and words, but not all. Such is the way of language! [...]

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