Today Lindenlabs dropped the bomb: there is going to be a new continent in the east! Not only that, they are adding the new regions at a higher speed than earlier (which was 4 regions per day) and putting up some mechanisms to avoid the buying of the parcels through bots. This sounds like a nice move. Ok, the …
Monatsarchiv: Januar 2007
Jan 29
The land bubble
Darius Lehane did it, again. This time he wrote an article about the land bubble in Second Life. Quite an interesting read and he got some critical points absolutely right. He’s right: land prices are out of control, taking off to unseen heights and are prone to crash sooner or later. Why? Well, what are …
Jan 28
New media coverage from “Der Spiegel”
The German magazine “Der Spiegel” (English translation via Google) has opened up an own avatar for media coverage in Second Life. This is after “The Avastar” and Reuters another major media player — well, at least in Europe — joining this world. The main usage seems so far to report Second Life and make some …
Jan 28
FN in SL
Yesterday, 1/27/07, Philippe Borremans wrote in his blog an article about the arrival of the Front National (FN), a right-wing party from France in SL and the possible implications of this move. He’s musing about the implications like this: Well, both Le Pen, the head of the party and some of its members have been condemned in court …
Jan 24
How a place can run down the hill — quickly
This is about a place called “Sinner’s Paradise” in the region called Wales. It’s a private island with two adjacent regions — Wales and Wales harbor. It’s a very nice and romantic spot, great landscape, many different places to enjoy and discover. Short: one of the better sex places in SL, and quite a popular one, too. But what comes, …
Jan 24
Second Life — a pyramid scheme?
In this article I am referring to a posting from today in the blog Valleywag about the virtual economy in Second Life. Actually Valleywag themselfes are referring to a bigger article from Randoph Harrison. It’s not the first nor surely the last article Valleywag is posting against Second Life, but one of the more interesting ones. And since …
Jan 21
Nice quote from Remus Zaoh
Today I stumbled about this nice quote on a notecard from Remus Zaoh: It is amazing to me how few SL residents attempt to market themselves in-world when nearly every article written in the mainstream press focuses on Fortune 500 companies setting up shop in SL. IBM, among others, is convinced that SL and streaming 3-D technology represents …
Jan 17
Extended downtime — again
Well, it is an update — again. The downtime got — again — extended from 5 to 8 hours. If you rely on doing business in SL, those times are always not for you. But this could be hopefully one of the last updates they have to take the whole grid offline while doing it. The changes the …
Jan 17
The economical magic of building things in SL
Today I want to write a little bit about the difference between building things in real life and in Second Life. Building things in real life, for example a simple chair, can be hurdlesome. First you need the materials to build it, namely wood and at least some glue. Second you need the right tools to achieve your …
Jan 16
Don Alphonso about SL
Don Alphonso, a well known German blogger (mostly he blogs about startups, which he often criticizes and wrote articles at DotComTod and BooCompany), wrote an article about SL (German only) in general yesterday at his blog. To sum it up: he thinks that SL is overhyped. Not only overhyped, but actually some kind of virtual trash can, …
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