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Archive for June 2008

June 19th, 2008

Pirated content deleted from Second Life!

[news source]
In response to DMCA regulations, Linden Lab administrators deleted a lot of pirated content from Second Life, apparently taking down some things that weren’t pirate, after all.
“Frustrated Second Life business-owners have turned to lawsuits as an option. Last year Second Life users Robert Leatherwood (Second Life: Volkov Catteneo) and Thomas Simon (Second Life: Rase […]

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June 18th, 2008

Second Life fifth anniversary

In a few days it will be Second Life’s fifth anniversary, and they will have a huge event!
Are you ready to roll?
They say that [bold is mine]:
“All exhibits are PG, because we want to make the SL5B as inclusive as possible.  All Residents, from all communities, and all countries are welcome to attend, exhibit, volunteer […]

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June 18th, 2008

Sardigna at the 15th Quadriennale in Rome

The 15th Quadriennale in Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome) starts today.
SARDIGNA is there with the work named “Joker was here. You’ve been chosen” by artist Giuseppe Stampone.
The critical part of the 15th Quadriennale has been entrusted to a Commission of five curators and art historians: Chiara Bertola, Lorenzo Canova, Bruno Corà, Daniela Lancioni, and Claudio Spadoni.

They […]

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June 18th, 2008

Mainland supply on hold until july

[news source]
Linden Lab decided to put on hold mainland supply until July.
This is their comment (bold is mine):
“The average price per meter is the key metric we observe to decide levels of mainland supply. It takes account of all resident-to-resident sales per day, but excludes a number of data items such as zero value sales […]

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June 17th, 2008

Public Calendar for Linden Lab

I’m reading it in my RSS feed reader, even if the post has been somewhat deleted from the blog… anyway:
“Ever wondered how to find out when the next Linden Talk or Event is? Ever wondered how you would find out about a Linden’s Office Hours?
Well we’ve set up a calendar just for you! Linden Lab […]

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June 16th, 2008

Weblin, the universal avatar application for the web

[thank to Travis for the news source]
Weblin is an avatar that allows you to communicate in real-time with other weblins on any site as you surf the Web.
Weblin lite is a tool that allows Web surfers to make themselves visible to other users by assigning an avatar, or “weblin” to depict a user at the […]

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June 15th, 2008

Second Life, where do you want to go tomorrow?

It’s sunday, a day with few slow news on virtual worlds.
The expanded time leaves space for thinking.
Today I’m thinking, in fact, on the future of Second Life.
I’m trying to figure out where SL is going, and if that direction is the one I wish.
I think that Second Life has huge adoption barriers, that block a […]

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June 14th, 2008

Microsoft on OpenSim

Good news for OpenSim: Microsoft, according to its SL developer Zain Naboulsi, is going to offer some volunteer development work for OpenSim. This could be the start of a precious partnership, don’t you think?
I strongly believe that OpenSim is the way to go, and I’m convinced that Linden Lab, and Second Life, will be the […]

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June 13th, 2008

Message in a Second Bottle

[news source]
This is soooo cool! For Second Life’s 5th anniversary, the metamusicians Dizzy Banjo and Lillie Yifu have created a huge bottle: you can fill it with text or audio messages, even if Dizzy prefers audio because “…it will play intermittently as part of a fun interactive sound and music installation…“.
The messages should try to […]

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June 11th, 2008

Limited interoperability between Second Life and OpenSim

OpenSim is an interesting project, an open source server to host virtual worlds.
From the wikipedia page:
“OpenSimulator uses libsecondlife to handle communication between the client and server, so it is possible to connect to an OpenSim server using the Linden Lab Second Life client“.
Second Life and OpenSim can now enjoy a limited, yet very important, interoperability.
This […]

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