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 […]
OMG: Universities are Change?Change?Changing???George Siemens pointed to this article at News.com titled Web 2.0: Big app on campus. Some of the highlights:“That interaction between student and professor is going to become more prominent where you have already read about or watched the lecture online. The days of the large university with a 300-person lecture hall […]
UNCANNY VALLEY EXPO: VAL SUISEIHeartbreak, created and modeled by Val Suisei, is today’s Uncanny Valley Expo entry. Her skin’s by Sin Skins, and the expression was taken using YadNi Monde’s Emoter HUD along with a default gesture. Can your avatar believably engage us on…SLHamlet
GOING GREENERWhat does a virtual world have to do with making real world businesses more eco-friendly? I provide a short summary of several earth-centric initiatives in Second Life for Earth2Tech, a new blog in the GigaOM network (where I cover games…SLHamlet
SecondCast #50 - Someone Thinking of You Matchmaker Aerdrie Fabre (email) of Tea and Sympathy in the Infamy region joins the SecondCasters to talk about her business introducing a wide range of residents seeking relationships in Second Life. Even though Cristiano is not into animal transformation fantasy otherwise known […]
How to get better search results?So I am just sitting here at Robin’s office hours with some people but not Robin but Catherine instead and the topic search came up. The basic question is how to find cool places/stuff/etc. without a system that can be gamed like the traffic system we have right now.So I […]
Be sure and visit my stall here in Ravenglass - Negozio Del Graffiti - fine authentic textures for your unique building needs!posted by Kidd Newchurch on Ravenglass using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]
Who Are We? - Mecha Dinosaur
Filed under: Interviews, Resident Snapshot
This is the 11th in a series of largely demographic interviews that are conducted with established residents, to find out more about them and their involvement with Second Life, and to contrast the differences between their views and experiences and those of the newer residents. The […]
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 […]
PodCamp NYCMark Wallace (SL: Walker Spaight) and John Swords (SL: Johnny Ming) will be at PodCamp NYC this week representing SecondCast, Metaverse Sessions, and The Grid Review. We will both be on the Social Media Convergence and Virtual Worlds panel along with Joseph Jaffe, Greg Verdino, and moderator Adam Broitman on Saturday at 9am. […]