Links for Monday, April 30, 2007
Mark Cuban: Your Are What Your Search Results Return And So Are Your Kids - “I wont need to greet her dates at the door with a shotgun, I will have a digital history of the poor kid and know pretty much everythng about him, before I meet him.“Tim O’Reilly: […]
SecondCast #53 - Beer in the Ballroom Randy Moss, Chair of SLCC 2007, joins the SecondCasters for a sneak peak at plans for the August event in Chicago. The group also discusses Lordfly’s first machinima, the end of first-land, and the potential for restricted logins during periods of grid […]
The Usability Office HoursNow Benjamin Linden, the new usability expert at Linden Lab is now also holding office hours. They are held at his office every Tuesday and Thursday from 10-11am SLT (except April 13th and 17th).Topics will be interface design, usability, new features and what else might come to his mind. So come and […]
How to use Photoshop to Create Textures With Alpha Channels for Second LifeThis will guide you step-by-step on how to make textures with transparency for Second Life using Adobe Photoshop CS. It includes tips on how to avoid blurry white outlines and a little info on masks and alpha channels.By: AsterAster
SURVEYING SECOND LIFELast month, the renowned market research solutions provider Global Market Insite conducted what is, to my knowledge, the broadest survey of consumer opinion of Second Life to date. Of their nearly 10,000 respondents, just 479 were Second Life users, but…SLHamlet
Fashion Dash Postponed (updated)The Fashion Dash event scheduled for this evening is canceled.We have decided that the substantial protest by the fashion community over Linden Lab’s handling of CopyBot will interfere with the quality of the event we had planned.We will announce a new date as soon as possible.
SL Educating hits the UK national mediaJessica Shepherd, writing in the Guardian, is is reporting on UK universities in SL. It’s not news of course to most of us, but it does do a nice job of highlighting some of the positives and some of the possible negatives (particularly the graphics-processing hunger) for a university […]
Making a Cut-OutA cut-out is part of a screenshot with the background made transparent so it stands alone. Use them to display and sell clothes or avatars, as stand-ins for screenshots, or anything else you can think of.In this screenshot I’m standing by cut-outs displaying my clothing.By: Osprey TherianOsprey Therian
SecondCast #51 - Hot Like Me The ‘Casters discuss reflective functionality in the new First Look viewer (demonstration), The L-Word launch in SL, land prices, RL winter weather birds, Smokin Aces, and the very un-Second Life (but Web 2.0 relevant) music search website, Midomi.com, which allows users to sing or […]
and the secret revealed: Sculpties coming to Second LifeSorry for all those still wanting to solve the riddle but I just was checking out the nice sim Q and guess who was coming around? Qarl Linden!Of course I head a question regarding all that buzz around the recent rumours about a new prim type or […]
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