READER SURVEY: WHY DID THE LINDENS END GAMBLING IN SECOND LIFE NOW?Opinion Polls Market Research I was busy preparing for a metaverse think tank event, when the Lindens up and eliminated an entire industry from the metaverse. Namely, casinos and gambling: But why now? Unlike May’s age verification announcement, which occurred…SLHamlet
Sunday SkitchArtI have to say, I love Skitch. It’s a MAC only tool that makes it oh so easy to snip pictures from the screen, annotate them, play with them and then, and here’s the cool part, easily upload them to your “MySkitch” webpage where you get all sorts of code you can then use […]
SecondCast #60 - Virtual Thirst Can avatars get thirsty? They may not thirst for real life beverages, but certainly they seek exciting virtual experiences. C.C. Chapman (SL: Cleon Goff) and Steve Coulson (SL: Gideon Television) of Crayon join the podcast to discuss Coca-Cola’s Virtual Thirst contest.The contest, which […]
Links for Saturday, July 7, 2007
Ian Bell: Ethanol is Sparking an Agribubble - “There s a perfect storm here which is diverting resources from your lunch plate to your gas tank. The basis for this imbalance are the subsidies for corn farmers in Canada and the U.S., as I ve pointed […]
StageSpace - a virtual world from GermanyA new virtual world is in the making. Karlsruhe, Germany based startup StageSpace is working on a virtual world with the same name. The alpha version was released last month and it got already some wide coverage in german blogs as well as an in-depth discussion on the Second […]
Book Review: Virtual Worlds - Rewiring Your Emotional FutureIt’s time for a book review! Actually this one got sent to me for review and as it’s IMHO a good book here’s a review for youI am speaking about the book Virtual Worlds - Rewiring Your Emotional Future by Jack Myers and Jerry Weinstein in which […]
Second Life Relay For Life 2007 [Flickr]
Tao Takashiposted a photo:
This photos have been made on the SLRFL site in Second Life. It will happen this weekend. For more information check outslrfl.coms
Second Life to get country based filtering system?According to an interview with Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale in german magazine “Focus” Second Life is getting a filtering system based on countries.When they talk about criminality in Second Life Philip claims that the community does govern itself in most cases without any money or other incentives […]
Quote of the DayDavid Weinberger: “Open up The Britannica at random and you’re far more likely to find reliable knowledge than if you were to open up the Web at random. That’s why we don’t open up the Web at random. Instead, we rely upon a wide range of trust mechanisms, appropriate to their domain, […]
slconference 2007 is cancelledFrom September 16-18 there should have been a european conference called slconference07. According to their homepage it is cancelled now. In the end it seems that they did not manage to get enough financial funding for it probably due to lack of sponsoring interest as their statement on their homepage hints.So here […]
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