Archive for December, 2007

The results from the WindLight survey have been released

The results from the WindLight survey have been released. 32% of the participants like the midday settings, 63.7% like the sunrise settings, 67.6% like the sunset settings, 56.9% like the nighttime look, and 53.9% love WindLight. Many of the comments continue to point out the flaws and bugs in WindLight. But expect [...]

Month to month usage of Second Life decreased by over five percent in November

Here is an interesting statistic. The month to month usage of Second Life decreased by over five percent in November. Many attribute this decrease to the holidays but could it be something more? Many companies have been pulling out of Second Life. Is it possible that many people just did not [...]

The winners to the Snowman WinterFest contest

The winners to the Snowman WinterFest contest in Second Life have been announced. Linden Labs awarded the top 3 entries L$5,000 each. The winners are MaxNogard Dibou, Lyndyn Tzara, and Jennifer Hana.

Congratulations for your great entries!
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QuickTime vulnerability in Second Life

Linden Labs has announced that although they did nothing to combat the QuickTime vulnerability in Second Life, Apple Inc has finally released a patch for the flaw. Linden Labs is strongly urging that you patch Apple QuickTime because they won’t be doing anything. Well that’s not entirely true, a new viewer of Second [...]

The Watch Zone

The Watch Zone web site has a wide selection of Technomarine watchs including all the top watch brands for men and women watches. The Watch Zone web site currently has a forty percent discount on all Fila watches and a twenty five percent discount on all Nivada watches. Please visit the Watch Zone [...]

Snowball Fight!

There are Snowball Fights hapenning in Second Life all over. Organized ones happened at the Carpentaria sim and the Kovari sim. Cossus and Egan regions will be next. Free snowball launchers and scripts as well as forts and cover are provided. Here are a few photos:

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There is a new Podcast at Linden Labs

There is a new Podcast at Linden Labs. The new Podcast called “Inside the Lab” is a podcast with Philip Rosedale. Philip Rosedale is the CEO and founder of Linden Labs. The podcast will cover growth in Second Life, technical challenges, real world issues, and virtual world competition. Future podcasts will [...]

Logins and Asset Problems

Logins went down in Second Life on tuesday. On Wednesday in Second Life the asset system went down with a grid shutdown. Many regions were effected and notecards could not be saved, scripts would not compile, and objects rezzed would not return to inventory. The outage lasted for about an hour.
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Is Electric Sheep Company Dying? Things Look Baaad

Is Electric Sheep Company Dying? Things Look Baaad
The Electric Sheep Company laid off twenty two employees. This is about one third of the staff for this premier Second Life development and consulting firm. The Electric Sheep Company also lost two of it’s biggest clients in AOL Pointe and Pontiac who have completely abandoned [...]

Saturday in Second life featured a Snowman building contest

Saturday in Second life featured a Snowman building contest. The Snowman building contest in Second Life was hosted by Rika Linden and Sejong Linden. All Snowman entries were PG with a maximum of 100 prims and dimensions of 8m x 8m x 8m. It was an hour long build contest. The [...]