Linden Lab has a well known track of record for doing the wrong decisions to the wrong time, annoying the hell out of their paying customers frequently, not really listening to the needs and wishes of their customers, being bad at … Weiterlesen
The Lindens are finally getting serious and are going to axe out ad farms on the mainland really soon, starting in October. Possible, though, is licensed advertising. Way to go!
The new rumored thing about Second Life just turns out to be a another messenger. It mixes instant messages and the usage of voice, so you can remain online and reachable for all of your friends while not logged in using … Weiterlesen
Second Life is growing again, which is a good thing. The concurrency level of logged in users is reaching new heights, so no one really knows why at the moment, and if it is going on like this we are going … Weiterlesen
Well, what’s new anyway in the meantime in SL? Mono has been deployed to the whole grid. This means, that all LSL scripts now might run on this new engine, which makes computation of scripts up to 200 times faster than … Weiterlesen
The old fashioned votebox made by Alberto Linden Some things in Second Life just die hard or not at all, even if they don’t serve any purpose anymore. For example, this vote box to the left was in former days … Weiterlesen
There’s still nothing more content creators in Second Life are fearing than the well known copybot. So still many vendors are using protection mechanisms, that worked with former versions of copybot by telling “!quit” in open chat, but those are … Weiterlesen
There’ve been some new developments in SL lately which are worth mentioning: IBM tested a transport of an avatar from the Second Life grid to their own grid, meaning it is now technically possible to teleport to an Opensim. Sounds quite … Weiterlesen
When I started going online back in 1994 the world was quite small. There were some local BBS around, I had my analogue modem with fast 14.400 bit/s, that needed to run over my phone line, and that was it. There’ve been … Weiterlesen
This here seems to be the newest trend: since the standard avatar mesh looks just plain right ugly at the feet some shoe designers started now building shoes with builtin, more naturally looking toes. This looks like this here then: Quite … Weiterlesen