Second Life Pros

In an interview available on the Guardian website, Philip Rosedale explains what he thinks about the future of Second Life:
“… I think that it’ll become more pervasive, especially if we open it up and standardize it. I’m not necessarily saying that this one company will control all those servers. No. We’re working on systems where you can have the servers outside of our company. But, yeah, it will become the Web. I believe that what we’re working on right now will become a more common way of using the Internet to retrieve information essentially…”
I really hope that Second Life will …read more

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According to Reuters, Lego is preparing a great move into the Virtual Worlds, launching a “Lego Universe”, with a pay subscription service.

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Lego Universe is designed by NetDevil (Colorado, USA), and will give users the ability to interact with classic Lego bricks, and probably with Mindstorms too.
Lego Universe will allow people to order physical versions of their online creations, which will foster Lego adoption and usage worldwide.
I’ve always loved playing with Lego, and I think this is a smart move… we’ll see how Lego Universe will compare to Second Life, and other virtual worlds.

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If you have doubt, questions, or are a bit confused about LAND, watch out Linden Lab’s Land video tutorials, which include: basics, land use, region and parcel prim limits, selling and buying parcels, land options, parcel access controls, property lines and land owners, joining and subdividing parcels, terraforming.
Let me know if you find them useful!

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If something is very slow in Second Life, it’s often for Grid problems… However, it seems that 3D rendering of Avatars can have a significant impact on performances.
The latest release candidate of the Second Life Viewer can show you how much an avatar is impacting on performances.
My take? Stop giving responsibilities to users, start implementing a better rendering engine, and make the Grid more stable and performing. Take OpenCroquet as a guiding light!

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[inspired by Wagner James Au]
Avatar Miss Malaprop (technologist, natural philosopher, mathematrix and occasional purchaser of shoes) prepared a map of the Cosmology of the Grid, to clarify the interactions between Linden Lab, the Grid itself, other Parts and also “…the Broader Aethernet, which does seem to be causing Misapprehensions as to the origins and behaviour of certain Aspects and Components“.
The result is incredibly interesting:

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I loved the “Hell” concept, and sometimes Advertising could have a small place in it

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Recently, I’m using Twitter a lot: Twitter.com is a website that allows you to post SMS-like messages (up to 140 chars), follow other twitterers, and do other cool things.
This is, for example, my page on Twitter, and you can register on Twitter and start following my “tweets” (messages on Twitter).
You can also check out my Twitter Power! collection of useful Twitter tools and links.
Today I’m introducing Twitterbox, a useful tool to “tweet” inside Second Life. As they say: “Twitterbox is an object which enables one to post to and receive updates from Twitter, when inside Second Life“.

Check it out, and …read more

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