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Archive for July 2008

July 24th, 2008

Videogame characters avatars wanted for Machinima short!

How cool!
If your avatar is not yet another human body, but rather a videogame character (Super Mario, anyone?), there’s this great chance of participating in a Machinima short!
From James Wagner Au’s blog:
“Acclaimed SL machinima creator Lainy Voom and I are working on a top secret machinima project, and we’re looking for Second Life Residents who’ve […]

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July 21st, 2008

$200,000 In Linden Dollars For American Cancer Society

Wagner tells us that 1000 runners from 89 teams were able to raise 200,000 USD (which equals to roughly 54 million Linden Dollars) for Relay For Life 2008, which is a collaboration between the Second Life Community and the American Cancer Society.
Well, 200 THOUSAND dollars is a lot of money, don’t you think?
Maybe this is […]

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July 19th, 2008

Mark Kingdon’s interview

A great interview with Mark Kingdon, on GigaOM, by Wagner James Au.
A few interesting excerpts:
- Google Lively is not even a competitor; you have much more use cases in Second Life.
- They are focusing on three things:
a) “solidifying our proposition for what we’re defining as our core markets”;
b) Improving Second Life’s interface;
c) Stability and scalability […]

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July 18th, 2008

How intelligent is AI in Second Life?

Well, it’s not a surprise: NOT THAT MUCH.
However, Artificial Intelligence in Second Life is improving.
Abi Carver, the “Robotar” (Avatar and Bot) of Daden Navigator:
“…is programmed for movement and avatar proximity, can turn to face a Resident who’s chatting with her, and even accept friendship when it’s offered“.
Well, not bad at all.
We will probably see some […]

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July 18th, 2008

No support for Mac OS 10.3 anymore!

It’s official: Linden Lab will stop supporting Mac OS 10.3 on their Second Life Viewer.
My guess is that this will push the few SL aficionados using Mac OS 10.3 (0.25% of total residents!) to an upgrade of their OS.
Surprisingly, they seem to agree! Read the article for more infos!
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July 15th, 2008

Daden navigator, a browser for Second Life

Daden Limited has just created a Second Life browser.
According to them (bold is mine):
“The technology is built on Linden Lab’s HTML on a Prim technology launched in March, so it includes those limitations (no Flash, Java, or forms), but will launch difficult pages in users’ external Web browsers.
The big benefit, says Daden, is the ease […]

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July 14th, 2008

Value added services for Opensim, by Linden Lab

Linden Lab plans to deliver value added services for Opensim.
This is an interesting excerpt from VP Joe Miller’s interview by reuters:
” …new plan for OpenSim, according to a Reuters interview with VP Joe Miller is to look for “value-added services,” like a reputation or economy system thta makes the Second Life Grid, or its properties, […]

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July 14th, 2008

Awesome shirts with ArtRage

As always, Torley gives us another cool tutorial: this time, it’s all about creating a customized and awesome shirt for our avatar. This is ArtRage website, by the way, and this is the high quality version of the video.
From Torley’s words:
“In today’s tutorial, you’ll learn just how easy it is to use ArtRage — a […]

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July 11th, 2008

Is Google’s lively the end of Second Life?

Do you know Google’s Lively?
In short, you create an avatar and chat with your friends in room that you design. A simple 3D web, if you want.
Some people think that Lively will be the end of Second Life. I don’t.
Sibley Verbeck, Electric Sheep Company’s CEO, commented that Google’s lively will not be a threat to […]

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July 10th, 2008

IBM and Second Life interoperability

This is great news: IBM announced interoperability between Virtual Worlds, and Second Life in particular.
Lots of sources commented on this:
Cisco calls it a mayor interoperability milestone.
Virtual world news is warm about it: “Linden Lab will start an Open Grid Public Beta in July, making the Second Life Preview Grid available with Open Grid Protocol support […]

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