Archive for January 5th, 2008

Second Life - Making a Cut-Out

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

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

Second Life - SecondCast #57 - Search Furtherment

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

SecondCast #57 - Search Furtherment The cast discusses the debate and the technical ins and outs of the recent search beta for Second Life by Sheep Labs with guests Christian Prior of Sheep Labs and Hiro Pendragon of Infinite Vision Media. Furtherment is actually a word. Heh.Download Standard […]

Second Life - SecondCast #59 - Petting Zoo

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

SecondCast #59 - Petting Zoo The SecondCasters welcome guest host Starr Sonic of SLCN.tv and teen grid members Lucky Figtree and Alex Harbinger. The group discusses the Teen Grid Unification proposal, Project Open Letter, Barbie World and a myriad of other riveting topics for your edification.Be sure to listen […]

Second Life - Yesterday’s Money: 1st November

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Yesterday’s Money: 1st November
Yesterday in Second Life we:

Spent US$1,372,000 at an exchange rate of L$268.7 to US$1
Exchanged US$274,000 at an average of US$11,400.0 per hour.
Market buys were US$197,000
Market sales were US$75,000
Limit-limit buys were US$1,400
The busiest time was at 11am when about US$16,000 was exchanged.
The quietest time was 3am when about US$6,000 […]

Second Life - The Giving Fields: Real Cows Purchased with Virtual Wheat

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

The Giving Fields: Real Cows Purchased with Virtual WheatThe Far Away is a field of wheat and a dreamscape Kansas created by the prodigiously talented builder named AM Radio. Last September, he launched an inventive fundraising project built around it, one that makes a kind of allegorical sense–…SLHamlet

Second Life - Playing Empires: Second Life Bloggers on the HUD-Based MMO Craze

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Playing Empires: Second Life Bloggers on the HUD-Based MMO CrazeIs the new Tringo-level game craze a HUD-based mini-MMO? I’ve long been meaning to try out Tiny Empires, a turn-based, land acquisition-and-monarchy strategy game that’s played on a heads-up display. To be perfectly honest, when I looked at the manual…SLHamlet

Second Life - Just purchased two lots for investment/project purposes in the Kasba sim. Nice rocky hillsides

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Just purchased two lots for investment/project purposes in the Kasba sim. Nice rocky hillsidesposted by Kidd Newchurch on Kasba using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

Second Life - Emerging Adulthood

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Emerging AdulthoodInteresting story from NPR that talks about the continuing delay in the onset of adulthood (sounds like a disease) that has some implications for our discussions in this community. For instance, the average age of women and men marrying is now 26 and 27.5, up from 20 and 22 fifty years ago. We’re having […]

Second Life - Links for Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Links for Tuesday, December 18, 2007
ZD Net: IBM Cooks Up Internal Virtual World for Confidentiality, Security - “Don t be surprised if IBM takes these learnings an[d] turns them into a service for verticals like retailing and hospitality.“Save the Clogging Pigs - “If you don’t act this Holiday Season, No longer will his […]

Second Life - Questions about Age Verification

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Questions about Age VerificationI not really have a strong opinion on age verification and probably will only verify should I encounter a parcel I cannot enter (and hope it’s working then). But I still have some questions about the whole mechanism (also note that Robin answered some questions here already):What is the main intent for […]

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