I’ve been programming around a little yesterday and made my first simple LSL-script — a notecard giver keeping track of unique visitors. Really simple when you get the heck off it and quite useful for different things, not so far fetched to turn it into a greeter, visitor counter and other things, also or make it into a big …
Monatsarchiv: Februar 2007
Feb 28
New upcoming trend: raytraced computer games (?)
While it is still not available on our computers, it’s in the making at the moment: raytraced computer games engines. For the record: almost any modern 3D computer game, like Second Life, uses so called raycasting as computing method, which is a much smaller version of raytracing itself. To sum the differences up in short: raycasting …
Feb 27
About the economics of Second Life
The Register ran a story one week ago about the economics of Second Life. They are taking a very close look at the hard facts of the economics in Second Life beside the hype. Some measures are really interesting and were even new to me. First, there is the churn rate. Only about 15% of the people who …
Feb 26
The almighty lag hell
It seems, the more people are online, the more the almight lag continues to grow. SL is no fun noawadays when more than 30.000 people are online at the same time. There is lag, lag, lag, teleporting issues, chat lag and other stuff, that turns down your experience. I just hope that the staff of Lindenlab is …
Feb 25
4 million residents reached
Today the resident count has reached a new peak — there are now over 4 million residents in Second Life. Again without much fanfare, like it was already when the 3 million mark was reached. This is no wonder, when you consider the problems that SL has in the moment and hopefully the next maintenance slot is somewhat …
Feb 24
Germans and their Arbeitsamt
There are many Germans in the game. Many of them are looking for a job. So, what would have been a better idea then to found something like a job agency for them? Yes, there is one, called SLArbeitsamt, the homepage is here. Well, what is an Arbeitsamt? It is the job agency, founded by the government over …
Feb 22
How I did it: Philip Rosedale
There is an interview at Inc.com with Philip Rosedale about how he started Second Life, what were his ideas, goals and such. If you’re interested in a little history or the visions behind Second Life at all, you should definitely read it.
Feb 22
DVD about Second Life
Some team members of the German blog Industrial Technology&Witchcraft have produced a DVD, targeted at SL newbies as their main audience. There are videos on it, showing several different aspects of the client and the world itself, presented by the avatars Molly Fellini and Case Schnabel. The price of the DVD is 14.99€ and it is …
Feb 21
Just a little reminder
When you’re the owner of a good going business and are in the process of setting up your brand new arrived sim, better be sure that your access list is setup the way you think it should be. Why? Well, because when you’re talking about the sim’s name in public at your well frequented business, you …
Feb 21
New pest coming around: banner ads
A new pest is forming up in Second Life: newbies going around with banner ads (and similar objects), getting paid for it the usual rates (2−4 L$ / 10 minutes). The benefit for them? Well, they can move in contrary to camping chairs or dancing pods, so I expect to see a drastical increase in such kind of advertisement. …
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