Second Life down for update
Filed under: Updates
Second Life is down for a major update, but one that thankfully won’t take very long - assuming all goes well. Lots of changes are going in for first stage of the Heterogenous Grid (you can pass some time reading up on what it is, and why it’s […]
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
Plastic Duck … Our Hero? A Case for Megaprims
Filed under: Building, Stories
While perusing the Modeling Certification wiki page I noticed an interesting requirement being proposed … "over-sized prims," specifically, megaprims. The fact that these essential building tools would be mentioned as a must-know for all professional content creators comes as no surprise to me. I […]
The Future of TeachingYesterday I spent the day in a pretty heady, day-long workshop sponsored by the Institute for the Future out here in Palo Alto talking about what schools, and specifically teaching might look like at some point down the road. It was titled “The Future of Learning Agents” and Steve Hargadon was there […]
Recompile scripts in objectsIf you are new to SL or just have never done it before here are two older turorials in pics that i made. One is for a door(single prim) one is a fireplace (multiple prim) but they can be applied to most objects that I can think of. Sorry the text is […]
The restricted communitySome discussion recently came up when the SLCC organizer announced their media and community rules. Now the most discussion was actually about the community rules which are of course more or less common sense. The only thing I worry about is that if there’s a reason to print them out there might be […]
Blues In SLWell, I missed the event, but Komuso has posted a mega-cool video of the SL Blues n’ Roots Festival.Click To PlayA music machinima of the first SecondLife Blues n’Roots festival [SL Blues n’Roots #1] featuring a lineup of four of the metaverse’s top Blues n’Roots musicians. Created by one of the top machinima […]
Oxford Flood Pictures
I am in the city of Oxford at the tail of a two-week speaking tour of the UK. Parts of Oxford have been underwater for the last few days due to some nearly unprecedented summer flooding. After arriving in town yesterday I wandered around and took a few pictures. Many parts of […]
SecondCast #56 - Ghost Ride the Podcast The ‘Casters record a live call-in episode thanks to the up and coming TalkShoe service. The group discusses the recent Virtual Worlds 2007 Spring conference, SLCC 2007 and the very controversial discussion around banning Prokofy Neva from attending, and BanLink. […]
Strategic advantages for businesses in SL
Filed under: Stories, Business, Making Money, Mixed Reality
According to some research from the University of Utrecht (Netherlands), and reported on Lost in the Magic Forest, companies in SL see strategic advantages to being here.
They surveyed all the Dutch companies in SL, and found that the companies experienced "first mover advantage" […]
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