Second Life Pros

Windlight First Look Viewer is an innovative Second Life client, that allows us to see wonderful landscape and texture effects. It’s definitively worth a try!

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I’ve been at the Virtual Job Fair for Luxembourg jobs, and not surprisingly, I’ve found a nice connection for an open position at Amazon! Great! I knew it was good to go!
And, as you see, my avatar is now a good one!

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For three super-secret reasons, I was able to get an avatar with MY OWN REAL NAME, that is Simone Brunozzi! Awesome! Just in time for the virtual Job Fair in Luxembourg, starting tomorrow!
This is a picture of myself in the SIM of Assisi.

I know, it’s just the basic male avatar, I need to work on it!
Still, it’s awesome!
If you are famous, if you are holding an important event, or if your organization is working in Second Life and doing huge things, or for other misterious reasons, you can get a VANITY NAME too.
Warning: it’s long, and difficult, and costs 100 …read more

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I’m suprised: despite many efforts, crashes, and other similar problems, are still too heavily affecting the virtual world of Second Life.
Read this interesting and well informed article about crashes in Second Life.

Sorry, Linden, but this is not the way out. This is the way down. Fix it.

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There is this new and nice website called MyNetworkValue.com, which gives you in few minutes an evaluation of the value of your network.
It is an interesting service, and it helps thinking about the value of relationships, often underestimated (compared to bare technical skills, for example).

It is also interesting to see that in the test there is no mention to network presence, like:
- Linkedin profile;
- Xing profile;
- Google results for your name (it’s easy for me (Simone Brunozzi), less easy for people with common names)
- phone numbers on your cell phone;
- emails in your address book.
- Second Life friends and groups.
This …read more

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I’ve found this interesting website, www.b.places.com, which lists some of the most interesting SIMs in Second Life.

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of similar sites out there, but this one is great because it’s somewhat business oriented, it’s simple and clean, it’s well presented, and the list actually WORKS.
The only thing, I’m surprised they didn’t list the wonderful Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi in Second Life, that remains, in the opinion of many visitors, one of the most wonderful reproduction of real buildings in Second Life.

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Most of you are certainly familiar with real estate, and aware that it’s a business field in which good salesmen get rich quickly, and foolish proprietors can lose or gain huge amounts of money based on their choices (price, real estate agent, etc).
Second Life is no different than that, despite it’s clearly a platform that allows novell forms of transactions and, therefore, of quarrelling.
It’s the case of Mark Bragg, a lawyer that used a dirty (but maybe legal) trick to win a virtual land (called SIM, short for Simulation) auction for a very low price; he basically hacked the URL …read more

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Yes, yes, yes: one of the most requested hack is finally available!
Thanks to the unvaluable Fire Centaur, here’s how to do it, I mean the video to use Skype in Second Life.
Check it out!

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I agree with many others: Second Life is good, but it could be better when you talk about education and e-learning (or v-learning, short for Virtual Learning).
Sun Microsystems, yes that big company that you surely know because you know Java and OpenOffice, is building a virtual environment for online education, based on Project Darkstar on the server, called Sun MPK20 Virtual Workplace environment.

This is a great leap forward, compared to what Second Life has to offer, and can also ensure that offering online education is not too time-consuming (like SL, most of the times).
We’ll wait and see if MPK20 will …read more

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Working worlds is the first Luxembourg virtual job fair in Second Life, taking place from 28th november in Second Life.
More than 900 people already registered for the event, and thousands more are ready to roll in.

This is great news, because job interviews are a great way to show how Second Life can leverage a business.
My suggestion? Register and attend, even if you’re not really interested in working in Real Luxembourg. I think the experience is worth the effort.

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