Archive for February 2008
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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The January Economic stats for Second Life have been released. One of the most interesting figures is that the resident owned mainland has decreased from 185.35 km2 to 182.92 km2. The number of premium accounts has reduced from 93,219 in December to 92,096 in January. Both of these stats look very bad. [...]
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The user interface change called Dazzle has hit Second Life. Linden Lab created Dazzle to improve the existing user interface. Dazzle uses newer graphics and icons and a new color scheme. Check out the Dazzle video below (uses a Slurl tutorial and the Dazzle interface):
Related Postsiewer 1.20 RC11. DazzleThere is a new [...]
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photo credit: alex.linesServer, Network, and Hardware issues continue in Second Life. Another IP address change will be made and regions will be restarted frequently for the next two weeks. Server code is also being updated and resulted in outages of almost six hours. The support portal went down for about 15 [...]
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The last few days have brought many problems in Second Life. For about 4 hours several regions were down due to network problems. Login, teleport, and map functions were down. The land auction queue stalled out and no new properties were able to begin the auction process. Then PayPal services went [...]
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photo credit: HVX SilverstarI reported earlier on the creation of the Second Life Department of Public Works. Well the new Linden Labs Department of Public Works is still a little short on builders. Linden Labs is begging for applications complete with detailed experience and references from two different Second Life avatars as [...]
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The London Fashion Show in Second Life brought one of the worlds most famous fashion shows to this virtual world. OnOff is providing a virtual version of the fashion show in Second Life. The virtual sim includes video of the catwalk shows, virtual goodies, and more virtual clothes than you could possibly imagine. [...]