Social Media and Virtual Worlds Commentary
Google’s advert during the Superbowl was about someone falling in love with a Parisien, and using the Search Engine to find the answers as predicaments arose. Which, of course, is what the many residents of Second Life often do too, as is observed:
Yeah, I know there’s a couple of minutes of black space. I put [...]
An interesting comment on New World Notes got me thinking about an issue that the BBC didn’t have to deal with 20 years ago. The BBC is funded by a license fee which is mandatory for any UK household which owns a television – this fee is then used by the BBC to create content. [...]
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We need information. The human thirst for knowledge has never stopped growing as we feed our desire to learn and understand.
The last few years has changed how we get our information. Printed media could only provide the news for the previous day until radio broadcasts updated us every morning and evening. The advent of 24 [...]
A somewhat underlying theme of the web revolves around it being this community which promotes the free and equal access to information and production, as well as disintegrating the levels of hierarchy and institution.
It stems from the early years of the internet when the World Wide Web was advocated by the political activists on the 1960s, and [...]
Blue Mars is always going to get compared to Second Life – it’s in direct competition for the same markets, which is why so many SL residents are watching it carefully.
The primary factor that will determine Blue Mars’ future is going to be the cost. So do their sums add up?
Blue Mars has four tiers [...]
Mark Kingdon, the CEO of Linden Lab and known as M Linden in Second Life, left an interesting statement on the SL Blogs regarding the recent acquisition of Avatars United:
“When we talk to the users who sign up but then decide not to stay, they say they left, in part, because they had a hard [...]
More surprising than it should have been, Linden Lab’s fascination with Facebook continued with its announcement last week that it had acquired the seemingly dormant Avatars United – a social networking website centred around virtual world characters and avatars. The announcement on the Second Life blog has seen a flurry of activity from residents keen [...]
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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 [...]
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