3 month ago
nelson : Google Lively - Some 1998esque virtual world thing from Google. Really? Totally baffled.
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3 month ago
nelson : More on Google Lively - interview explaining the product
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7 month ago
philgyford : New World Notes: All About My Avatar: Tasrill Sieyes - A Second Life avatar based on Duchamp's 'Nude Descending a Staircase'. First thing that's made me interested in getting into SL. (via Haddock)
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11 month ago
deusx : YouTube - Scott Adams in Second Life - Crotch kicking is the new virtual killer app.
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11 month ago
deusx : The Dilbert Blog: It’s Like Reality, Without the Screaming - "Last week I appeared “live” in the virtual world of Second Life to promote my new book. ... Then I let them come on stage and kick my in the ‘nads."
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11 month ago
nelson : Second Life valuation? - It's not good news when your VC sells part of your company
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13 month ago
deusx : Second Life Herald: Baby Unicorn Power!!! - "Tiny, adorable baby unicorns that you can hold and cuddle... but they come with a price. You can only get them by having sex with an adult unicorn"
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13 month ago
plasticbag : Corporations are apparently not getting a lot of value from being in Second Life... - This is not an enormous surprise, even if I think they're missing out on some of the softer benefits. In the end, it's press that they're really going for. And a hint of future-looking zeitgeist-catching flare. That's all.
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14 month ago
nelson : Second Life lawsuit - A test of ownership of virtual property
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15 month ago
Rod Begbie : How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life - Excellently skeptical article on companies' presence in Second Life. "You might wonder what Coke is doing in such a place. "It had a lot to do with hype," admits Michael Donnelly." [via] #
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15 month ago
nelson : Space Invader / Second Life - There's a nice full circle aspect to this
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16 month ago
deusx : Reuters/Second Life » Second Life Sketches: The Great Fissure (2) - "Even if you’re just renting a house or apartment in your town, there’s no law or condition that gives a stranger the inalienable privilege to walk in and rub a dead badger over the walls, after all. Nor to burn a dead hobo on your lawn while yel
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16 month ago
Rod Begbie : Second Life in Real Life - If the world was the same as Second Life. Also, people would be walking round with cups of coffee stuck to their stomachs. [via] #
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17 month ago
deusx : Sensei's Library: Go Center Of Second Life - "This Go Center exists in the virtual world of [ext] Second Life. It is located at [ext] Vineland 58,93."
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20 month ago
plasticbag : Moo cards extend their social media card hegemony to Second Life and Habbo Hotel... - The Habbo cards look totally beautiful, but it's the Second Life cards that seem the most fun. You just take pictures of things you've seen in Second Life and e-mail them to MOO, then go in and choose the best ones to make cards from. Neat.
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20 month ago
plasticbag : Henry Jenkins has made his comments known about the Second Life debate and Clay Shirky's quantitative style of historical impact measurement... - I agree with the argument that something can be significant and influential even if it is not particularly popular. See the Pixies for more information on that one. However, it is reasonable to interrogate statistics to measure whether something has mains
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20 month ago
wearehugh : PISSED OFF SECOND LIFE PLAYERS USE NUKES - The Last Boss - remember remember eternal september
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20 month ago
wearehugh : Digg - Angry Second Life players set off nukes in game world - "I love how there is a revolution going on...in a virtual world...with flying penises"
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20 month ago
nelson : Second Life trial - I can't write this well, but my experience was about the same (via BoingBoing)
wearehugh : Toothpaste For Dinner: My adventures in Second Life - this almost exactly mirrors my SL experience, right down to getting kicked out of a virtual club
Rod Begbie : Toothpaste For Dinner blog: My adventures in Second Life - Heh. Glad to see I'm not the only one trying to understand the draw of Second Life. [via] #
cameron : My adventures in Second Life - Some things are funny because they're true: "Everything in Second Life seems to be coated in a preteen's understanding of sex. It was very titty-booby pee-pee doo-doo. From the fantasy asses to the cyber-ruins surrounding Freebie Warehouse, there really w
veen : Toothpaste For Dinner: My adventures in Second Life - "You could transform yourself into a giant penis for 200 fakebucks, but one could argue that you do that anyway by spending time in Second Life."
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21 month ago
plasticbag : Matt Biddulph demonstrates how he can now exert pressure on objects in a virtual space by manipulating objects in real space - This is fascinating and lovely. Teledildonics leaps to mind, of course, but then it would. After that, you get into more interesting relationships between ambient connected devices and virtual worlds, and that's when I get all moist.
Matthew M. Boedicker : making a Second Life object react to real-world movement - (via programming.reddit) [via]
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21 month ago
wearehugh : Second Life client GPL'd - two weeks later... | Uwe Hermann
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21 month ago
wearehugh : O'Reilly Radar > Building Second Life - "At least now I have a chance of tracking down the problem and fixing it myself."
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21 month ago
wearehugh : Official Linden Blog » Blog Archive Embracing the Inevitable « - second life client released under GPL
cameron : LindenLabs open sources the Second Life client - They hope to improve various parts of the experience and have a more distributable architecture.
jimray : Embracing the Inevitable - Linden open source's Second Life
deusx : Official Linden Blog » Blog Archive Embracing the Inevitable « - Interesting. Important to note that this is the Viewer client being released, and not a hosting solution. Maybe that'll be yet to come, or reverse engineered soon.
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22 month ago
deusx : SECOND LIFE: 'Everyone's favorite digital ghost town' - Valleywag - "when I log into Second Life, I usually see twenty people crowded around a stripper, a gigantic elephant with letters on its body, and some other avatars asleep in a chair trying to scrounge up a handful of Linden dollars."
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wearehugh : Virtual [Second Life] magnate shares secrets of success | Newsmakers | CNET News.com - "The griefer managed to assault the CNET theater for 15 minutes with--well, there's no way to say this delicately--animated flying penises."
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