Monatsarchiv: Januar 2007

Jan 15

Pyramid scheme — revisited

I’ve found a bounch of pyramides near a good frequented club, and this time the text in the pyramides still worked. So, just for the reading pleasure (and to be complete) — here is the text: Dear Moneymaker, So, you want to make money, and lots of it. You have come to the right place. It is really simple : …

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Jan 11

Some links

CNNmoney.com has an interesting interview with John Zdanowski about the Linden Dollar. It’s from the 8th December 2006, but still worth a read. Also in CNNmoney.com, from the 10th November 2006 actually: “No, Second Life is not overhyped.” Packagingessentials.com — I am linked there as an “expert source” under the category “3d graphics”, “virtual reality.” Well. A big …

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Jan 11

Annoying objects for nobrainers

Don’t we all know it? The famous “Pyramid system”, which brings many people to litter other people’s sims with it in the hope to make some cheap money without much or no effort at all? Every time I see this type of garbage I want to barf. Some people just need to grow a brain, somewhere, somehow — and …

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Jan 11

Search changed

As many might have now noticed (or not) — the implementation of the search feature in SL has changed. According to this article in the SL blog it is now this way: You may have noticed that Search > Places returns slightly different results after today’s update. Previously if you had a place with a description like “clothingshirtshoes” …

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Jan 08

Second Life goes Opensource — so what?

Yesterday was one of these days — out of the blue happened one important thing, about that already many rumors spreaded around lately. The client part of Second Life was released under the GPLv2 license, which means: it became opensource. Well, some expected it sooner or later, because there were already interviews around in which …

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Jan 07

Home visits and the consequences

Yesterday I visited the new home of my dear friend Lu Stapleton. It’s a very nice and modern house somewhere on the mainland, which is definitely a good fit. She was quite impressed by the work of the builder and for sure is going to recommend him to others. While I was there, some classic music played on the …

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Jan 05

My Friday in SL

Well, today was smooth and without any trouble. All was quiet in the garden, danced with several nice ladies and I found some stuff to read and to do. Well, here’s my roundup: An article named “What do Paris Hilton and Second Life have in common?” from the CEO of Iron Realms, a company doing business in and …

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Jan 04

Second Life in 2007 — potential backlash?

In Terra Nova is an interesting article about potential backlashs about Second Life in 2007 by Ren Reynolds. Points one to three are: It’s all just sex. sex sex sex I tell you It’s not just sex, it’s prostitution It can be used for hiding / laundering money Well, guess what? Point 3 already has happened, there are …

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Jan 04

New wiki in town: Second Life Business Communicators Wiki

There is a new wiki in town: the “Second Life Business Communicators Wiki”! To state from their first page: This wiki is intended to be a collaborative resource for anyone interested in business and communications applications of Second Life, virtual worlds or 3D user interfaces. It is in its infancy and is by no means exhaustive, complete or …

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Jan 04

Wagner James Au about Hype and Anti-Hype

I’ve found the article “Second Life: Hype vs. Anti-Hype vs. Anti-Anti-Hype” from the midth of December 2006. A very well thought article from Wagner James Au about the recent developments, company side and growth in SL. Definitely worth a read, so not a short one, so take your time! [Update]: Seems the user base grows about 23% per month according to this artice based on numbers bei Philip Linden.

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