Archive for February, 2008

Some of the Worst Jokes You will EVER hear….in Second Life

Some of the Worst Jokes You will EVER hear….in Second Life
I mean, these jokes are really bad. I just couldn’t take my eyes off of the strange eye and eyebrow movement. I may have to do a follow up on this:

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Map collector David Rumsey adds Antique Maps to Second Life

Map collector David Rumsey adds Antique Maps to Second Life
photo credit: Ka Rasmuson
Map collector David Rumsey has created a way to display antique maps in Second Life. The David Rumsey Maps Island is a virtual sim in Second Life where David Rumsey displays his digitizations of maps. There are over 17,500 maps [...]

Learn to Speak Any Language in Second Life Cheap and Easy

Learn to Speak Any Language in Second Life Cheap and Easy
photo credit: Daneel Ariantho

There is an amazing movement happening using Second Life to learn to speak any language using Second Life Voice Chat. It is well established that conversational learning is very beneficial. You can easily visit a virtual sim in Second [...]

Adweek Article on Second Life

photo credit: Elif Ayiter, aka. Alpha Auer
There was a scathing article in Adweek today about the about-face many are experiencing with Second Life. The article commented that Second Life still has potential but once the novelty wears off many simply loose interest. A steep learning curve and lack of dedication to online [...]

Oh Thursday, Thursday, you bring so many problems to Second Life

Oh Thursday, Thursday, you bring so many problems to Second Life. Billing and payments were again having connection issues. Then a massive server update was announced. The thing that bothers me is that this update is being deployed “by ear”. Over 500 regions will be restarted in the morning. Another [...]

Koinonia Congregational Church

There is a new Church in Second Life. The Koinonia Congregational Church bills itself as a Christian community based in Second Life. Koinonia Congregational Church says it is open to different religions, different sexual orientations, different practices, and diversity. Well it can’t be that Christian then….The Koinonia Congregational Church is located at [...]

Mono Beta Updated in Second Life

photo credit: sizeofguam
I talked earlier about the Mono Beta in Second Life. The beta has been updated with fixes to key types, running script errors durring rezz, compile errors, thread injection errors, camera errors, search errors, sound errors, and more. Runtime errors are produced in most cases. Office hours are being [...]

Second Life is now approaching 30,000 sims

photo credit: HVX Silverstar
Second Life is now approaching 30,000 sims. The projection is that these numbers will be reached by the end of 2008. But is this accurate? The Second Life server grid is reporting only about 2,000-3,000 sims. Even with a huge rate of growth is this larger number [...]

I attended the Second Life Bloggers Meetup

I attended the Second Life Bloggers Meetup. The Second Life Bloggers Meetup was held in Second Life on Sunday, February 24, 2008. The party took place at the Sailor’s Cove virtual sim. This was an interesting experience to chat with many of the other bloggers discussing Second Life. We talked about [...]

Various Problems continue in Second Life

photo credit: dahnielson
Various Problems continue in Second Life. Various problems in Second Life kept coming after the lates batch restarts and among continued restarts. Summary stats for ad clickthroughs have been broken for some time although a fix is in the works. Debit Card and Credit processing has had problems and [...]