Archive for May 2008
photo credit: ttrinoid
What are your plans for Memorial Day? I will spend some time with family both in the real world and in Second Life. I will probably do a little windsurfing and a little surfing. I love long weekends and with rising gas prices I definately will not be traveling.
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The Reuters Second Life site is down today. The page is coming up with “Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in /home/reuterss/www/stories/wp-includes/streams.php on line 180″. I wonder if this means Reuters will no longer be covering Second Life? Their stories have been farther and fewer inbetween lately. [...]
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The new 1.2 RC7 Viewer was pulled. The new 1.2 RC7 Viewer was initially available but was then pulled. Problems ocurred with buying Linden Dollars and Land as well as Mac login problems. Please visit the viewers test page and wiki for more information. I recommend extensive testing first.
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Second Life is celebrating it’s five year anniversary. This is a cool celebration. The five year anniversary of Second Life will be celebrated on June 23, 2008. The theme is “Celebrating the cultural diversity of Second Life”. You can build and exhibit, join a volutneer team, send in SL images, or [...]
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Voice will be down tomorrow for maintenance. The update will start at 2:00 am and go for about three hours. This update will include a media server update and web API update. Only voice will be down. Capacity and fixes will be included. I look forward to improvements in the [...]
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Here is another example of a Griefer attack in Second Life. At first glance it just looks like dancing and creating cubes. But there is a surprise ending:
The victim of this griefer attack was obviously very annoyed. Griefer attacks are bad for the community but they can be funny at times.
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The Department of Public Works has been building away. Rout 1 is being built along with a volcanic island. Bay City has also been built in Teen Second Life. Make sure to check it out. This is exciting progress. I really think this is one of the best projects that Linden [...]
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In an article by the Wall Street Journal it was reported that businesses do not really do all that well in virtual worlds. In fact, 90% of all business in virtual worlds fail in 18 months. This research was done by the Gartner Group. I seriously doubt these numbers. The Gartner [...]