There are now over 6 million residents now in Second Life since yesterday. Again, no big press release, nada, zip, nothing. I wonder…
Kategorie: General
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 on a detailed response, in the meantime please look there and there for more information, and oh, by the way, we’re going to hold a new town hall meeting soon
The responses vary, I think, it is too early to judge since they are still working on their real reply.
Project Open Letter
There’s a new open letter in town of people who try to persuade Lindenlabs to stabilize SL. So far 569 Avatars undersigned it, a nice idea, at least.
Downtime again and fun with Lindens
Another unplanned downtime, again. That’s a good time to move on the voice beta grid and have some fun. Today there were many people at Ahern and Morris, so it’s always good to move to another sim.
I was at Pulveria, there was a Linden and some other guys, but not so much as in the laggy welcome area and he spoke to us and with us. No better way to meet the Lindens in world than on the beta grid at the moment.
So… one asked the question, why a region sometimes gets better when restarted. Seems it depends on the neighboring regions, when you’re restarting a region it could be moved dynamically to another CPU, so that’s why it can become better, again. Interesting detail in the architecture.
Another roundup
Since I’ve got again too much ideas for blog entries in my mind and don’t want to post them all as separate articles, I’m doing another roundup. Here it comes:
- Pham Neutra is discussing the population growth of Second Life with a graphic from Chromal Brodsky. Thesis there: growth is still there, but it slowed down already in March, it’s not exponential anymore. So it will be interesting to watch the statistics of April, when the month is over.
- There’s an article made by a law professor about taxing virtual worlds. In essence it’s this: players should be taxed like in the real world for commercial activity, but not game play.
- There’s an article in Wired about the Nasa activities in SL, especially CoLab.
- A German article, tagline "Second Life is not going to be better than the first life".
- A gallery of RL brands in Second Life. Very interesting to get a picture which companies are already involved in SL. Big brands listed only!
- A very critical article about the so called casino investigations. Thesis: the FBI looked at one thing, but nothing seemed to happen at all, so where’s the meat? Then again, Lindenlabs seems to be reacting before FBI is doing anything and installing a new registration/confirmation system.
- A new photo book named "Avatar Expression" has been released.
Well, that’s it for the moment, more to come shortly.