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Gwyn's Home
Some fun evolution on skins over the years…
One skin designer (Namssor Daguerre) and 6 years of the history of skins, on my other blog Watch never-released-pictures of Awful Gwyn in BSSE (Before Second Skin Era) [UPDATE] My interview with Namssor Daguerre on Ana Lutetia’s blog, which is the #10 most read blog in Second Life....
Obsessive about Real Identity?
I had started to write this in mid-October but never finished it… and the database crashed at some point while I was in the middle of writing it, losing almost all of the article In the mean time, the recent interest in this topic, as well as M...
As Linden Lab prepares the last round of bug-fixing before launching the brand new SL 2.0 viewer (will it run on Apple’s iPad? lol), I did a few movies showing off how good Snowglobe actually runs on way old laptops. This is pretty much a personal discussion I’ve got with NetAntwerp,...
Digital People and Anonymous Avatars by Extropia DaSilva
This time, we get a short essay from Extropia DaSilva… but one that is quite close to my heart Enjoy! — Gwyn “Trussssst in me/ Jusssst in me”- Ka from Disney’s ‘Jungle Book’. When H+ Magazine published Stephen Cobb’s article ‘Real Discrimination Against Digital People’, someone wrote the following response: ‘I...
Make Money Fast in Second Life!
Uh, right. Well, there are indeed a few ways of doing so Seriously! Readers who viewed this page, also viewed:Second Life® JobsReal Life Fashion For Second Life AvatarsDigital People and Anonymous Avatars by Extropia DaSilvaTrademarks in Second Life — where are they?Powered by Where did they go from here? Related posts:Trademarks...
CR-Post2PingFM Plugin Tweaked for WordPress MU
Although this is not strictly related to Second Life itself, I need some place to put a tweaked version of Arief Bayu Purwanto’s CR Post2PingFM plugin, which required some tweaking to work well with WordPress MU. The problem has to do with setting and reading options properly in a multiblog environment....
Worlds In Motion
WeeWorld Brings WeeMee Avatar Creator To iPhone
Portable avatar service and virtual world WeeWorld has launched WeeMee Avatar Creator, a new application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that allows users to create and display customized WeeMee avatars on their handset. More than 33 million users have registered to create WeeMees since the service launched in 2002. Those...
Hi-media Payments Opens SF Office, Brings Allopass To North America
Paris-headquartered microtransaction company Hi-Media Payments announced the opening of a new San Francisco office, as well as plans to bring its Allopass micropayments platform to the North Aemrican market. The new branch, Hi-media USA, will be headed by CEO Pooj and will service U.S. customers and their clients. Its initial...
Kongregate Reveals Dream World Success, Payment Partners
Along with announcing new alternative payment partners, indie game portal Kongregate revealed that Playmage's Dream World, the first social game to use its Konduit Application Platform for community/monetization features, attracted over one million gameplays. The Konduit Application Platform enables developer to tap into Kongregate features like leaderboards, virtual goods, profiles, and...
Zynga Brings FarmVille To MSN Games
Just a couple months after migrating launching a standalone site for mega-hit FarmVille, social game developer Zynga has further expanded the popular farming sim beyond Facebook to Microsoft's MSN Games portal. As with the FarmVille.com version of the casual title, the MSN Games edition uses Facebook Connect so that players can...
3G Studios Releasing Social Shooter On Facebook
Independent developer 3G Studios announced that it's working on Brave Arms (not to be confused with the PS3 project from Namco/Project Aces), a "social shooter" that will release exclusively on Facebook. The shooter will allow players to create and customize avatars, then play against friends in 3D environments. They will also...
Reminder: Last Day For GDC 2010 Early Registration
Organizers of GDC 2010 are reminding that today is the last day to register for up to 35% off pass prices for the March 9th-13th event, with the free Android phone offer also expiring today. The Moscone Center, San Francisco-based event has just announced a raft of new lectures, including highlighted...
Koinup: Second Life Places
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FabFree - Fabulously Free in SL
The new group gift – I…Mom from EmmePose! EmmePose – http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sunrise%20Dreams/132/25/21 ...
It is clearly that everyone in SL is in the mood for Valentine… pink, red, hearts, lingerie and chocolate, but most of all time for l-o-v-e. I don’t often talk much, cause I feel the pictures should do all the talking. oh… and enjoy xxx ^^. uneek – valentine undies set –...
Shameless Bits: Tree Trunk Hammock
A hike through the woods with the one you love, holding hands, talking, playfully chasing each other through the tall trees around you. The scent of pine cones filling the air and the hush of the forest that evelopes you and the one you love, stirs the passion you...
Shiki released today the February gift! Thanks Shinichi Mathy, the gift is awesome! Also the store is having annual 50% sale. 50% off selected items for both men and women. Most sale items are on the 2nd floor. Cool, isn’t it? Run! Shiki Design - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Shiki/95/152/22‘ Other Info: Poses – Essential Soul Studio n Poses – not...
Im all angelic today, inspired by the one I love and who is always in my thoughts.. and well Cupid had wings.. I thought the 10L Demure dress in the Pixeldolls sale would go well with my angelic look… So this is how I’ve been travelling the grid today. Rockberry have...
- shirt: amodica lookr – form – not free - pants: Alvatars – Levis-3 – midnight mania - shoes: duh – sah #21 – sneakers boots - tie: sf design sah #5 – pack of ties - bag: Indyra – The ireben carry-all – sah #5 *sah – shoes & accessories hunt - 1/15 to...
An Engine Fit For My Proceeding
I felt that I should write a final entry here to clarify recent events and the current situation. What have you done? I have removed every building and item of mine from the Grid, most notably, Caledon and New Babbage. (At least, I think I have; there may be a few bits...
Avatars Unite! As many times as is desired!
The purchase of a site known as "Avatars United" was recently announced by Linden Lab as... well, I am not precisely sure quite what the point was but it was a Great Thing nonetheless. Apparently the aim was to make sure that people with existing identities on the Grid, and...
A Useful Script - "Mass Distribution by List of Names in a Notecard"
I recently had cause to distribute a number of items to a large number of people, whose names I was in possession of a list of, but not, of course, their keys. The appalling lack of a useful llName2Key function unfortunately makes it a little challenging to send things out, but...
A piece of Christmas Arboreal Scripting
Seeing as how it is the Season Of Trees And Such, I thought that I would post a piece of Code, as an example of Particle Scripting. The Ordinal Christmas Particle Tree This script illustrates two main points: Particles can last for quite a long time. In this case, the "branches" last for...
I thought that I might offer a few thoughts regarding Mr Jack Linden's announcement of the latest fabulous Laboratory Movement - that of "Linden Homes". Once upon a time we offered affordable parcels of land to Premium members — a program we called 'First Land'. The First Land program...
Mercantile Insanity, a Longer Version
I have found it a little challenging to marshall all of the points I would like to make regarding the recent Xstreet Outrage in time to make a Journal Entry that remains relevant, but that is one of the challenges of Journalism really, that and coping with acute liver complaints...
New World Notes
The Top 10 Hottest Second Life Male Avatars of 2009 (Pt. 2)
Exclusive to NWN, Iris Ophelia's ongoing showcase of all things stylish in SL Last week, I posted the first five names on our Hottest Second Life Male Avatars list for 2009, and for the first time since we started this......
BBC's "Virtual Revolution" Host a Second Life Expert Too
"The Virtual Revolution" is a great-looking BBC series on how the Internet has transformed the world airing now, presented by my pal Dr. Aleks Krotoski. Ironically*, the show is region-blocked, and you can only fully view it online in the......
Chestnut Rau’s weekly round-up of upcoming SL events… The Four Bridges community is committed to human rights, social and economic justice, respect for nature and a culture of peace. This weekend, 2/5 - 2/7, there will be a series of......
Willow's Playlist: Sweet Songs of Love with Tauri Tigerpaw: The Perfect Balm for Valentine?
Exclusive to NWN, Willow Caldera covers SL's burgeoning live music scene Are there any among us who wouldn't agree that love is a thing worth singing about? What each of us might want to be sung on the topic is......
I just got a special New World Notes invite code to City of Eternals, the web-based vampire MMO I'm helping develop. (And which I think is pretty damn cool, but then I'm biased.) Use this link to request a special......
Recently, a Second Life veteran named Hikaru Yamamoto told me about the plans she'd heard Philip Rosedale was cooking up for his new company, LoveMachine. He wasn't just building a public version of Linden Lab's employee rating system. Turns out......
Alphaville Herald
Techdirt Slams Typepad Takedown Of "Clear Cut Fair Use" JLU Coverage
Second Life vigilante gang's coverup tactics questioned by Idoru Wellman, staff writer Responding to a questionable copyright infringement claim, last night Typepad gutted the Herald's coverage of the Justice League Unlimited with takedowns of disputed content from six stories. Was......
Op-Ed: Avatars United – A Social Network Too Far?
by Sigmund Leominster If you’re becoming jaded by the tales of the inconsequential status and activity of the Justice League Unlimited, which, as a group, must now hold some sort of record in terms of column inches in the Herald......
Six Apart Seeks Safe Harbor From Justice League Unlimited DMCA Storm
Embarrassed Second Life role-play superhero police force swings mighty DMCA hammer again by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Herald coverage of the Justice League Unlimited has been edited by Six Apart staff to remove text and images which Six Apart......
Rhapsody Heartsdale -- Post 6 Grrrrl
(The Herald Editorial Staff wish to thank Daeynaries for the outstanding job she did as Post 6 Photographer during Timothy's vacation. We look forward to working with her again in the future). (Rhapsody Heartsdale is probably one of the funnest......
Op/Ed: Second Life Resident Comments on JLU Superpowers
Have you taken a look in a mirror lately? You're a walking infringement... AnnOTooleInSL's Xtranormal.com video commentary on the Second Life Justice League Unlimited situation:...
Second Life Economy: Weak Growth in Q4 2009
Q4 2009 - feeble growth after 2 quarters of economic decline by Jessica Holyoke Last week, Linden Lab released their fourth quarter 2009 and year-end results for the Second Life Economy. A few weeks earlier, Linden Lab released their raw......
Second Life Roleplay
Check out the latest issue of SLRP magazine Volume 1 Issue No 2. Inside there are plenty of pictures for two great looking sims, Bleach Reborn and New Wonderland. If you enjoy the sights, make sure you pay these sims a visit. You will not be disappointed. ...
Check out my new magazine - SLRP – highlighting the latest role play sims from around the Second Life metaverse. SLRP issue number one is out now featuring Mayday Island role play sim. ...
The Final Issue of Role Magazine
The twelfth and final issue of Role Magazine has been released. The November issue includes many great articles including my piece on an intriguing role play sim called Obscure Reality. Check out all the great articles in this issue and in all the previous issues available at the Role Magazine website. Once again, I...
It has been about two weeks since Sindee’s consciousness has been ripped from Salvatore in a move that Nova helped achieve with a promise of a new host for her. The new host is a cyber genetic body capable of being possessed by one such as Sindee as well as performing other tasks including shape shifting. It...
Dateline: October 16, 2039 Lately, Sindee had been getting more absorbed into her Japanese past. She was starting to mix more Japanese with her English and her latest morph had turned her into a petite Japanese woman. This was worrying to her Brood family as the events in the last few...
I am sad to report that Role Magazine will be closing after it’s November issue is published. I have been a staff writer for them since the July issue and have grown fond of what was my first paid writing assignment in Second Life. Though my time with them was...
Koinup: Latest Works from Everyone
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Second Thoughts
Google and Facebook Up in My Social Grill
Oh, this is awful. Google data-scrape camel pushing its nose under the social-media tent. I really hate this. This is something of course that Twitter and Facebook are letting happen, and have been paid for no doubt handsomely to let... ...
My New Couch From Dutchie. Finally got it working. Visit Derwent (229, 13, 27) Posted via email from Prokofy's posterous ...
Hi, could you all STOP spamming me with this? I've now heard about this 100 times. And it's a total nothing. This "Lucifer Midnight" (himself a fake avatar BTW) has chosen some 30 or more avatars of prominence to harass... ...
Lindens Remove Very Last Vestige of Open Advertising Space
I thought that the Linden scrub of the Events List was their last whack at closing shut the open advertising space in SL but I'd overlooked something that Ciaran Laval's sharp eye caught -- the Lindens are going to wipe... ...
"Ultimately the virtual world is GOING to get you, it's just a matter of time."
There's a new video up of Philip Rosedale (our Philip Linden) that is quite compelling. I think there will be a lot of interest in it but it's a very long haul for such things of about 45 minutes. The... ...
Asshat Master Tries to Tell Us Wattup
This asshat was dominating the twitters mindshare today with one of those cocky blogs written in vulgar emphatic geek speak of the kind I find grating -- so I push it *right* back and I say: WTF dude? Where the... ...
Virtual Neko in Second Life
A Virtual Neko Letter to Santa
Psst… click here to find out Santa’s little secret, and the details on my adorable Christmas outfit (suitable not only for Neko kids and festive Neko adults, but it even looks good on you humans). Just don’t tell Santa I spilled the beans, k…? http://virtualneko.com =^..^= ...
Kawaii Neko or Grunge Neko? If you’re like most humans I’ve met in Second Life, seeing a Neko all dressed up in pink and surrounded by cuteness may seem a bit… odd. After all, we Neko are all about grunge, right? Torn shirts, ratty jeans, skulls, barbed wire and piercings…...
Virtual Neko Store Alert: + grasp +
In between Neko fashion and short stories, Bobby thought it might be nice to do an occasional, brief post about a store I’ve recently discovered and/or enjoy. Lo and behold, as I was updating my slurl for the Sweetaholic kimono shop today, I noticed the designer had opened up a...
She of the Blood He who strays in the forest at late, Becomes like a worm on a hook for bait. When the moon is full and the sky is black He will soon discover the courage he lacks. The prayers you utter will all be in vain, For no one escapes the Blood and the...
Explorer Neko and the Shadowcrawler
Dr. Livingstone, I presume, stepping out of the jungle gloom, into the midday sun… What did you happen to find there? Did you stand a while and stare? Did you meet anyone?* Sometime after midnight, the moon suffocated in the thick, muggy air. A determined mosquito had managed to penetrate...
100,000 Thanks and a Neko Research Study!
Early yesterday morning, a lone, unidentified Neko visited this blog and quietly turned the site meter over to 100,000 visits. Is there significance in five zeros? I’m not really sure, but it definitely warms my little kitteh heart. So much so that I wanted to pause and say… one hundred thousand...
MixedRealities
Upcoming Event: Metanomics and ThinkBalm bout immersive technology in the workplace
Now that the economy is in a structural change where small and even one person enterprises stand for innovation and employment, immersive solutions become even more crucial to enable those small companties to collaborate worldwide and to work with big corporations which also rely more and more on autonomous and...
Virtual Worlds in a state of reorganization
Some industry news from the last few hours and days: - Wonderblog: Sun no longer applies development resources to Project Wonderland, a group of people continues working on it, but is looking for new partners, claiming the project is worthwhile to continue. There is so much great momentum behind Wonderland. To our...
Upcoming Event – We Are The Network: How in the World do you Explain a Virtual World?
In the previous discussion of We Are The Network we discussed how one can measure the health of a virtual world. At the end of the meeting, we were wondering how one can explain a virtual world to non-virtual world people. On Tuesday February 2 we’ll explore this further, at...
Google Social Search: what about virtual worlds?
via googleblog.blogspot.com Google launches its social search feature, which helps you to find and highlight information coming from your friends and contacts on various online services. It’s a clear sign that Google understands how important the “social filter” is. Now, wouldn’t it be nice to expand this service to public chat in...
Is the iPad a game changer? Be careful for what you wish for.
Some brief thoughts about the iPad: - The new Apple device is less expensive than may feared (the lowest price is 499 dollar). Actually it can be considered a competitor for netbooks. Steve Jobs made it clear that in his view netbooks maybe cheap, but also have little to offer. - Not...
A simple measure of the health of a virtual world…
This is a very short and incomplete rendering of a great discussion we had with We Are The Network. During the discussion we ran a twitterfeed with hashtag #watn. The thoughts expressed in this post have been presented and discussed by various participants – they are not necessarily my own. To...
Annabeth Robinson's Blogs
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creating and exploring tools for online learning events within Second Life...
The DDM Collective - in the Metaverse
Investigation of Virtual Worlds for Art & Design Teching and Learning at Leeds College of Art....
Angry's Tripping the Metaverse
occasional meanderings and musings from the Virtual Worlds......
Hub for students on Design for Digital Media at LCAD...