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We have seen an ever increasing amount over Second Life and virtual worlds in general. Linden Lab and Minsky are currently fighting over trademarks and Linden Lab wants to terminate Minsky’s secondlife account. They are asking for court approval beforehand. By having agreed to Second Life terms of service Minsky will most [...]
Second Life has quietly been expanding the number of languages that are supported. This is a great move by Linden Lab that will ultimately increase their user base and popularity. Many other virtual worlds make the mistake of only supporting a few languages.
Soon the viewer will support the following [...]
Check out the below short video featuring footage from Burning Life 2008:
The video shows some of the events and locations as well as some of the artwork featured in the event. Some of the exhibits and works of art are pretty impressive.
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In a large milestone Second Life has reached over 71,000 concurrent users. This is an increase of six percent and perhaps the best measure of the growth of Second Life. Linden Lab attributes this to a more simpler registration process and viewer stability and other network improvements.
Outages are supposidly down twenty [...]
The Second Life Grid is going to be updated soon. Grid stability has long plagued this virtual world. Frank Ambrose, new Senior VP of Global Technology commented that he is bringing his experience from AOL to improve things. I am glad to see that hardware is beeing replaced. Regular updates [...]
Vollee released a Mobile Open Beta Application that runs Second Life. The application supports over two hundred and fifty mobile operator networks and over seventy handset models. It is about time that mobile phones started doing something serious like playing massively multiplayer online games such as Second Life. You can download the [...]
I was taking a look at SLCN.TV. The biggest problem that I see is that they use Quicktime. Probably because this is what is required in Second Life. But Quicktime sucks. They do have a blog and podcasts which is cool. Channels include shopping, music, business, lifestyle, sports, community, guide, [...]
I wrote earlier that Linden Lab hasn’t updated their blog in awhile. Well today they responded to that comment after not posting for 7 days. Somehow fewer blog posts means more communication. They claim tag clouds, categories, and search are not good for finding what you are looking for and everyone hates [...]
Mono will be launching in Second Life. Server 1.24 will be including the open source technology. This should improve the speed of scripts. The existing script engine will still be available. Linden Lab is trying to make Second Life a software development platform. What do you think?
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Second Life is looking for volunteers for Burning Life 2008
Second Life is looking for volunteers for Burning Life 2008. Burning Life 2008 will run from September 27, 2008 until October 5, 2008. In case you didn’t know Phillip Linden supposedly was Philip Linden as a result of his attending the Burning Man festival [...]
