Tagesarchiv: 26. März 2007

Mrz 26

Next milestone reached: 5 million inhabitants

There are now officially over 5 million residents in Second Life. So I wonder how long it takes until the next million hops on and which impact this is going to have on the platform.

Mrz 26

Interesting presentation about the underlying design of SL

Back in 2006 there’s been an interesting presentation about the underlying design principles of Second Life. It’s being hosted at the company website of MySQL. The presentation goes about 45 pages. The most interesting page is for sure 25, because it gives a big overall picture about the underlying architecture of SL. So, here without further fanfare, is …

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Mrz 26

Lindenlabs had less than 11 million US$ income in 2006

The German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is running an interview today with Philip Rosedale. Of course, it’s about Second Life. Rosedale says that figures which are flowing around, saying that his company had less than 11 million US$ on sales last year, are reasonable. The first quarter ever his company made profit was 4Q 2006 accordings …

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Mrz 26

Oh please, as if the SLLA is not worse enough…

Groan. There is now a new group on the block, calling themselfs the “Second Life Anarchists.” Their goals are somewhat similar to the SLLA. Their main message to us all is something like that: While we laud LL for their foresight, and technical achievement in bringing SL to be, and find it hard to fault their stewardship of …

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Mrz 26

Interesting blog: MySQL Performance Blog

On my travels through my feedreader I’ve discovered an interesting blog: the MySQL Performance Blog. For sure interesting for all of us who are into databases and must work with them. Hey, even Second Life is in reality just a big, big database in MySQL, so it covers the most fundamental, underlying technic of Second Life …

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Mrz 26

Nice beginner’s tutorial about making clothes

There’s a nice beginner’s tutorial in Natalia’s Second Life Diary Blog about how to make clothes with The Gimp! It shows some of the underlying principles in a very convenient Howto manner and the Gimp is open source. So, if you ever wanted to give this a try, you should definitely check it out and give it a try! Ok, …

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