Links for Saturday, March 17, 2007
Seattle PI: Real-life move for Second Life - “Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life, is opening an office in Seattle and hopes to grab some of the area’s abundant technology talent. Yes, it will be a real office — not a virtual one.“Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories: An AVR-based Analog […]
Saturday night and the grid is buggy
Filed under: Gridbugs
Do you think we can sort out a filk to "Saturday night’s the night for fighting"?
Anyway, people are notcing issues with packet loss, teleports failing, inventory rezzing and the like. Some people are seeing textures, especially larger ones, very slow to rez, if they’re rezzing fully at […]
Splashr!Kevin Jarrett points to a cool new tool to use with Flickr called Splashr! Outputs your photos by username or tag into any number of different slideshow formats, and then creates a link to the slideshow itself that you can share out or put on your own page. See Kevin’s presentation on Second Life as […]
Links for Thursday, March 8, 2007
Rick Segal: Backseat Driving Usually Causes Accidents - “Beware of backseat drivers in your business. They usually grab the wheel at the wrong time and cause serious pile ups with fatalities.“
YOUR TUBE, YOUR ANNIHILATIONNice to see Tech War still has an active fanbase a year later. This is a fun trailer for the acclaimed real-time strategy game featuring babes, explosions, and a menagerie killer robots– what else do you need? Watch, then read…SLHamlet
SecondCast #40 Running Refrigerators Johnny Ming hosts a news round-up with the SecondCasters. Topics include the new SecondCast hotline (+1 866-475-STFU), the Fashion Dash event on November 15th, Vivox for Mac, the aftermath of the 2006 Arcadia Game Competition, the Second Life Library, the launch of Crayon, a virtual […]
SecondCast #42 - 2006 Machinima FestivalJohnny Ming interviews Second Life residents, Linden Lab staffers, and event organizers at the 2006 Machinima Festival Awards Program held Saturday, November 4, 2006 at the awesome Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York. Rik has the full list of winners posted here.Download Standard Podcast
Links for Sunday, March 4, 2007
James Governor: Knowledge Workers As Switchboard Operators - “When I look around I see a world where the real value is in connecting people and knowledge. But doing so in utter secrecy doesnt scale.“Make Magazine: DIY Space - “We used frozen peas to callibrate the thermisters.“Royal Pingdom: What The Web […]
Today in Second Life - Thursday 29 March, 2007.
Filed under: Odds and Ends
Today in Second Life we had:
26,562 new signups bringing us to 5,089,362 signups total.
A peak concurrency of 36,178 at 2:01PM, and a minimum concurrency of 16,890 at 11:01PM. Average concurrency for the day was 25,214.
A day of problems for the grid generally.
The land […]
Teachers chat: Ire at slagging of SL for teens
Filed under: Stories, Teaching
I’m one of those dangerously liberal European types. I don’t have any issues with protecting under-18’s (in fact our laws about protecting under-18’s in education are stricter than the USA’s and I whole-heartedly support them) but, once they reach adulthood, there’s a limit to […]
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