Archive for November, 2007

I have recently thought about purchasing land

I have recently thought about purchasing land for sale. Purchasing land is a great way to purchase something for future use in building your own home or future investment use for very little upfront cost. The Land Flip web site can help you to easily and with some education purchase land. Please [...]

Has there been one day this week without problems in Second Life?

Has there been one day this week without problems in Second Life? No. Billing problems continued. The voice maintenance went longer than expected. And now there are many more issues in Second Life today, Friday. Search is down, mapping is down, teleporting is down, Lindex balances are down. Linden [...]

Finder Bot Virtual Sales Assistant

One of the major problems with running a virtual store in Second Life is trying to always keep the store staffed to answer questions and make sales. Well that problem just got a little bit easier to solve with the Finder Bot virtual sales assistant in Second Life.
Alan Ross has won the McKinsey’s Virtual [...]

The parade of outages continue

The parade of outages continue for Second Life. The Second Life support portal was down with file attachments not working. Group payouts were delayed for another day and possibly will not be paid out until tomorrow. There are currently 42,919 avatars online (this is a pretty large amount). I wonder if [...]

Payouts were delayed again

Payouts for Second Life were delayed again. A rolling restart kicked off today for updates. Everything was down for about 6 hours. Scheduled maintenance down time for the voice service in Second Life is scheduled for Friday, November 30, 2007 for about 1-4 hours starting at 2:00 am. There are currently [...]

Alexa shopping mall

Today I went to the new Alexa shopping mall. The Alexa shopping mall in Second Life is a replica of the Berlin mall. I missed the grand opening on November 19, 2007 but the mall was still packed and had tons of fun things to do including live music. The Alexa mall [...]

Problems continued

Problems in Second Life continued. Linden balances were down as well as logins, mapping, teleporting, search, and more. The databases were hotswapped, and group chat suffered for awhile. Problems continue. I am starting to wonder if things are getting worse rather than better?
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Free blog widgets and blog badges

The Just Say Hi web site has a wide variety of free Blog Stuff. The Just Say Hi web site has blog widgets and badges for your blog. Some examples of the blog widgets and blog badges are a quiz on how much alcohol it would take to kill you, who died on [...]

Revolutionary Artistic Elemental Effects with WindLight in Second Life

Revolutionary Artistic Elemental Effects with WindLight in Second Life

With the recent aquisition by Linden Labs of Windward Mark Interactive, residents in this virtual world will soon have the ability to change color, dust, moisture, sunlight, water, weather, atmospheric componets, gamma, cloud shadows, moonlight, shooting stars, and much more to create amazing elemental and atomospheric effects. [...]

Useing Brain Waves in Second Life

Japanese University Keio University is experimenting with controlling avatars in Second Life using electrodes attached to the scalp and brain waves. This could potentially give people who are paralyzed the ability to move through a virtual world including walking and interacting virtually. The applications for Second Life are limitless and I applaud such [...]