RMB City Rising: China Tracy Sells Virtual Real Estate to Miami’s Art Maven EliteA fantasia re-imagining of modern Beijing, "RMB City" is the latest Second Life-based art project from my friend China Tracy (nice profile of the real world artist in W Magazine here.) Since conception, it’s evolved from a video prototype to…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 […]
Rik’s Top Ten Second Life Events of 2007NWN Events maestro Rik Riel rounds up his favorite 2007 picks These picks obviously reflect my own personal preferences and biases. But hopefully those of you planning events for next year can look to these for ideas on how to…rikomatic
TwitterstoriesSo George Mayo is sitting around at lunch today with his students trying to get their Twitterstory started and a few hours later he’s reading about it on the NPR site. Kinda scary on some level. If you teach middle school kids, George is looking for collaborators. You can get more info here.Technorati Tags: twitter, […]
Yesterday’s Money: 31st October
Filed under: Linden Dollars, Business
Yesterday in Second Life we:
Spent US$1,284,000 at an exchange rate of L$266.4 to US$1
Exchanged US$257,000 at an average of US$10,700.0 per hour.
Market buys were US$173,000
Market sales were US$84,000
Limit-limit buys were US$200
The busiest time was at 11am when about US$26,000 was exchanged.
The quietest time was […]
The Acrylic ScorpionThis is one of my instructables that I am entering in to the Halloween contest. While not your typical Halloween decoration, it really depends on where you are located. Here in Arizona we keep a look out for them. Scorpions are one of those creepy crawly little things that you have to […]
Booch is no mooch
Filed under: Odds and Ends
Grady Booch might not be a household name, but he’s the Chief Scientist for IBM’s Rational Software Corp. unit. In a recent interview with Computerworld, Booch has held forth on a number of topics, including his take on SL. His approach to explaining the value of SL to […]
Giving First Life Gifts in Second Life using Amazon.comIn the virtual world Second Life it is easy to form very close friendships with someone you may never have the opportunity to meet in person. Second Life residents celebrate First Life holidays like Valentine’s Day and Christmas as well as personal celebrations; birthdays, weddings, anniversaries […]
Wii and Headtracking - wouldn t this be great for Second Life?I just came about this video where Johnny Chung Lee of the Human-Computer Reaction Interaction Lab shows us how he utilizes the Wiimote to do headtracking. The results are amazing![Click here to see the video]Now how cool would this be to be […]
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
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