About one week ago there has been a report that aired on German television about the depiction of child pornography in Second Life. It sent out massive waves through the whole community, the Lindens even wrote an article about the whole case on their own blog. The whole case broke down into this parts: the depiction of child …
Monatsarchiv: Mai 2007
Mai 15
Age verification again
The next big thing in the community hasn’t been the upcoming voice features or the introduction of sculpted prims (which are going to have only somewhat limited use), but the introduction of age verification to the platform. I’ve also written an entry about it, too. Now we know the company which is going to do it. …
Mai 14
Some useful tips
Ok, here are now two useful tips to use the client a little bit better: Tired of sorting out your inventory? Wish, there would be more windows open than only one at the same time? This is possible, but well hidden in the client. Just open the first Inventory window, go in the File menu there …
Mai 06
About the last town hall meeting
The Second Life Herald has a very interesting, but also opiniated, piece about the last town hall meetingearlier this week with Cory Linden. To put it simple: the writer was not impressed at all and thinks that the Lindens are working on the wrong priorities right now. One thing I agree is, that we still need to see …
Mai 05
A few thoughts on the age verification
According to the Lindens there is coming an age verification to us in about one week. If I read the FAQ correct, it is done by a third party company and you’ve got to provide them some info, e.g. social security number, drivers license number, passport number, to verify that you are over 18 years old. If you …
Mai 03
So I told you…
…at Monday this week I’d like to see regional datacenters, like in Europe or Asia, today is technical town hall and what can I hear there? [12:50] Cay Trudeau: Do you think arranging physichal server on other continents, like Europe for instance, would ease up on the server load, ease the connections and allow better performance …
Mai 03
Over 6 million residents now
There are now over 6 million residents now in Second Life since yesterday. Again, no big press release, nada, zip, nothing. I wonder…
Mai 01
The Open Letter revisited and first reactions
The number of undersigners of the Open Letter grows at great speed. Yesterday there were perhaps around 1500 undersigners on it — now there are already 2541 underwriters on it. Well, it had some kind of effect already, the Lindens replied in their blog to it. Their response at the moment is like this: we’re working …
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