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What does error message parcel too full mean?
Also your house may be virtually empty but if you are on a 512 block you only have 117 prims to play with and if it not a Linden home then the house itself counts towards prim usage.Check the amount of prims of the items you do have out, if...
Scylla's Thread of BDSM Epicness
Zena.Zemlja wrote:As for baeric, he has gotten a severe allergy for arguing too much with pep, and as a result of it he has now started talking just like him. It may take some time for him to heal, but we all can help by giving him some tlc Whether...
I ;ogged out a few hours ago and now when I try to log in I get an error message that says the system is currently logging me out and my account won't be available for 3 minutes. It's been saying that for well ove an hour. Any ideas?...
So we can expect solid bright yellow as background instead of solid black? ...
Mother's Day Caption Competition
Cindy carefully weighed all three options in her mind before choosing her raffle prize. P.S. Sorry, as you've probably guessed I'm addicted to these ...
Sy.Beck wrote: HEY!This is the negative thread! That clip was the single most awe inspiring positive conjunction of robotics and beer EVER! Shame on you for despoiling the thread!LMAO I am sorry ...
Twitter / SLurl
SLurl: Shared Media Meetup SL Viewer 2 Required 11:30am http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sandbox%20Newcomb/54/160/117...
SLurl: Brahma Yoga 4am http://slurl.com/secondlife/Airtol%20Hill/181/89/59
SLurl: Brahma Yoga 4am http://slurl.com/secondlife/Airtol%20Hill/181/89/59...
SLurl: Under Construction: The coming paradigm shift in social acceptance of VW 6pm #vwbpe http://slurl.com/secondlife/VWBPE%20North%204/3/218/39...
SLurl: How changing paradigms influece knowlendge #vwbpe 7pm Phelan Corrimal http://slurl.com/secondlife/VWBPE%20East%202/72/5/76/...
SLurl: Out of the Box Uses of Viewer 2 #vwbpe 5pm http://slurl.com/secondlife/VWBPE%20West%203/229/168/71...
SLurl: Viewer 2.0: What does this mean for you? Q&A @VWBPE 4pm Hydra Shaftoe http://slurl.com/secondlife/VWBPE%20West%204/160/68/603/...
Savoir Hair
Today’s style is from Mau’s & Mej’s. The Massinga style is a mass of wild curls that have high volume throughout the sides and back. The curls spill down to the small of the back in bouncy ringlets. The hair in front is parted just right of center with curls framing...
Savoir Hair’s Grand ReOpening is tonight at 10:15 PM. There are special opening gifts as well as free and $1L hairstyles from over 38 hair designers and more are on the way. Be sure to explore all of the TenFifteen sim to enjoy the beautiful build by...
Today’s style is from the DarkerSide. The Baroque style is a long straight style with the hair falling down to the top of the thighs. The hair in knotted into a bun at the back right in an intricate style. Long strands frame the face on the left with a top...
Today’s style is from Fri.day. The Miley style is a simple ponytail that sits over the right shoulder and is folded into itself. The pony is held in place by hair wrapped around the base. The hair in front is parted on the right with bangs crossing the brow slightly covering...
Today’s style is from Damselfly. The Danilynn style is a simple twist updo with the hair twisted along the back and knotted in place at the crown. The hair at the sides are pulled smoothly back into the twist. Soft, layered bangs fall forward onto the face framing it in fringed...
Today’s style is from Truth. The Sydney style is a long, straight style that falls in beautiful strands to the middle of the back. Some of the strands have a slight wave to them softening the tips of the strands. There is a simple headband placed behind the bangs. The bangs...
Free*Style
Rio deJaneiro: The F*S Guide to the RFL Clothing Fair
Lots of great finds on the Rio sim. I picked up lots of gifts there, though I did my shopping on preview day and not all the stores were completely set up so you might find more gifts. Unless the price is noted expect them to be either free or...
I love dressing up with new shapes and forms, these 2 dresses actually really caught my eyes and couldn't wait to try it on!isaa Gelber, the creator behind Roule™ approached me about making poses to give away with the dress I am wearing above; the dress itself is a short...
New group gift from CoCo! Every time CoCo does a group gift my heart leaps with joy, lol.And the skin from Lara Skins, coupled with the group gift hair from Yuna's (it's a fat pack!) makes for a great day of free!Worn:Skirt: CoCo, group gift in storeHair: Yuna's, group...
Slow Kitchen has a great group gift outfit out (or at least it was out a couple of days ago...SL is being a total jerk and making TPs really difficult when I tried to check on it) and together with the Junwave's picks gift hair, as well as the Kue...
F*S Guide to The RFL Clothing Fair
The Relay for Life (RFL) Clothing Fair began today! The Fair has grown to over 150 participating designers and covers 9 sims. 8 fashion capitals of the world house the shops with a center sim patterned after The UN Sculpture Gardens. The Clothing Fair benefits the American Cancer Society (ACS)...
hi! I just bought both colors of the tiny bird 50L friday hair haha. gorgeous! they're made specially to go with the Reek! shades, so you have the option of wearing the shades on your head. The Reek! Denton Shades are out in a special 4-color pack for 50L, too....
Botgirl's Second Life Diary
Second Life Culture 02: Platform as Evolutionary Force
The technology and governance of the Second Life platform don't just enable and shape culture, they are essential parts of culture itself. The platform environment is both the evolutionary force we must adapt to and the medium through which we act, interact and experience in the virtual world. For instance, avatar...
Will Linden Lab's Change Efforts Destroy Second Life Culture as We Know it?
Dusan Writer wrote a couple of posts last week that included a question about the impact of Linden Lab's technology and governance changes on Second Life Culture. After days of fruitless musing, I eventually realized that the main reason I was having such a hard time gaining clarity on the topic was that...
Become Your Avatar: A Second Life Ad I'd Love to See
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Tragic Death of Baby Demands The Virtual World Community Dig Deeper and Look in the Mirror
I didn't click the link to the Gamer's Tot Dies of Starvation headline when it popped up in my virtual world feed on Thursday. I assumed it was a tabloid story making a dubious connection between the horrific death of a child and a parent's coincidental participation in an online game. Three days and...
Brief Proof-of Concept Mixing External Animation into SL Machinima With New Media Sharing Feature
This is my first tentative proof-of-concept playing around with the idea of integrating external video in an inworld Second Life machinima. It uses the new Media Sharing functionality that enables the flexible and interactive display of media directly on a prim. For this test, I stood in front of a...
Living in the Metaverse
Remember remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder, treason Should ever be forgot… I don’t know if 1605 conspiracy to kill King James I of England and some members of aristocracy has anything to do with this and if there will be any gunpowder barrels and...
Two years ago, while I was still kind of young in my second life, I met a woman. She was a vampire dominatrix though the lifestyle really doesn’t play any role here. We chatted a bit so I’ve learned that she’s very old, something like late beta. And while she...
Just today, Rezzable announced the release of their new tool: BuilderBot. In the essence, BuilderBot is used to copy the content of the entire sim and turn it to OAR file. Then you can import the file on your own OpenSim sim, whether it is on some alternative grid or on...
We’re talking about the big events, like fairs, SL birthdays, Burning Man and such…. events that last for days, but you’re lucky to get there because each time you try to you just learn that sim is full and won’t let you in. And while you’re cursing the sim limitations,...
How To Find Things You’ve Bought Yesterday (Using Filters)
So you had a great time shopping, hunting, grabbing freebies… You’ve been through the dozens of shops or just visited the Hair Fair. Then you came home but you were lazy / had no time / forgot to unpack those boxes and sort the things. Or you have just crashed...
If you have took a sneak peek at the new Second Life™ UI, you have probably noticed that pie manu, the circle thing with several useful tools that comes up when you click on the avatar or object, will be replaced with old-fashioned, linear menu. Yes, there are many changes...
The Imagination Age
Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity
Ethnographer danah boyd by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media, Inc.If you didn't hear danah boyd's welcome keynote, "Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity," at SXSW, check out the rough, unedited manuscript of the speech here. Boyd looks at the privacy FAIL around Google Buzz:"No matter how many times a privileged...
Immortality and Hazard (for Jamais Cascio on his birthday)
Yesterday, Jason Silva (half of the Max and Jason duo) sent me a link to a solo project, a short video, The Immortalists. I love the ideas posited in this work. I'm as life-and-death-obsessed as any other girl who started reading Albert Camus before the age of reason, thanks...
"Mr. Plimpton's Revenge,," an essay told on Google maps, is a magnificent example of web-surface storytelling.It also reminds me of the long-ago afternoon I spent with George Plimpton at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. That guy got around, which makes the medium of telling...
Leadership in Cultural Relations
Image credit: Rita J. KingSince we've started working with the British Council, I've been amazed to learn the scope and depth of their cultural relations programs. There is a key difference between how the British approach cultural relations, from which many countries could learn in their approach to cultural engagement....
As part of the Smarter Work project I'm documenting how people work but also the changing nature of the spaces we work in. I captured a series of images people playing video games from behind a papercraft curtain (yes, they knew I was there!) and it was amazing to...
"My name is Khan, and I am not a terrorist"
Josh Asen, CEO and Co-Founder of Hip Hop Diplomacy is a guestblogger and collaborator on The Imagination Age.By Josh Asen."My name is Khan, and I am not a terrorist". This is the leitmotif of the new film from acclaimed Bollywood director, Karan Johar, and it is one that bears repeating,...
Virtual Worlds News
CloudSlam Selects 3DXplorer For Virtual Conference
Cloudcor Inc has selected Altadyn's 3DXplorer as the exclusive platform provider for its CloudSlam'10 virtual conference. Altadyn will provide an exclusive lounge for VIP delegates as well as a virtual expo environment for networking and showing off cloud computing solutions.......
Non-Profit Open Wonderland Launches
With the news last month that Oracle would be shutting down development resources for Project Wonderland, the open-source virtual world platform originally supported by Sun Microsystems, associated developers began looking for alternatives. Last week saw the launch of the Open......
Quick Stat: 85% Of Home Users Return
Last week PlayStation Home director Jack Buser talked up some stats for Sony's virtual world, Home. According to Buser, the world is now 12 million-users strong, and 85% of users who try Home will return at least once, reports Kotaku.......
Idea Fabrik Licenses HeroEngine For Virtual World, Working With Austin-Based Nasus Consulting?
Simutronics announced today that Idea Fabrik had licensed its HeroEngine to create a new virtual world, Echoverse. Idea Fabrik says Echoverse will combine real and digital life as well as commerce and entertainment. Idea Fabrik is working out of Kiev,......
Image Metrics Raises $8M For Facial Animation, Completes Public Listing
Image Metrics announced today that it has completed a round of financing to raise $8 million. The company says it will use the funding to expand sales and marketing as it rolls out its facial animation software, including FaceWare, for......
IMVU today announced that it had partnered with Vivox to add integrated voice services to its virtual world. That's a first for the virtual world, which has been growing steadily for years, but it also brings a new revenue stream.......
Twitter / malburns
malburns: SL Edu-Journal Post malburns @ 2010-03-14T22:02:00: 06:03 SL Edu-Journal Post malburns @ 2010-03-13T22:03:00: 06:0... http://bit.ly/9OsfHn...
malburns: "OpenSim grids grow 10% this month" http://bit.ly/b0aGGn
malburns: "OpenSim grids grow 10% this month" http://bit.ly/b0aGGn...
malburns: "Linden Lab Leaping the Chasm?" http://bit.ly/aIsNBS
malburns: "Linden Lab Leaping the Chasm?" http://bit.ly/aIsNBS...
malburns: Post to Monitor 03/15/2010 (a.m.) - - Leaked UK record industry memo sets out plans for breaking copyright - Boing… http://bit.ly/drzz9j...
malburns: "Europe's Premiere 3D Internet DeveloperAnd Community Conference" http://bit.ly/b1dRgu
malburns: "Europe's Premiere 3D Internet DeveloperAnd Community Conference" http://bit.ly/b1dRgu...
malburns: "Philip Rosedale appearing at Austin's SXSW for Mixed Reality Screening of Second Life Documentary "Life 2.0"" http://bit.ly/cVvJ6m...
JUICYBOMB | Juicy Second Life Fashion
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AOHARU has just released these DownVest jackets that comes with tons of options. You can wear the vest alone, or with a flannel shirt beneath (included). The vest also comes with an attached hoodie with a fur or no fur......
The Kunglers Renata dress is like wearing whipped cream! The top & skirt is made of hundreds of wavy translucent sculpts. This dress includes 3 belts that attaches to the stomach, they come in Red, White, and Black. My friend......
Brighten up your Tuesday with some new releases from Elate, Glow and AtomicBambi! These adorable Joy dresses from Elate comes in various colors & they're just so easy to wear. I like them with flip-flops for an ultra comfy look.......
Cheap Makeup has just released these comfy looking My Bf's Denim Shirt. I'm wearing the lightest wash, but it also comes in Mid and Dark jeans too. The Cheap Makeup Marseille Bodysuits is perfect for wearing alone, or pairing with......
Gala Phoenix Battle Royale Skins
These new Gala Phoenix Battle Royale skins are so interesting I have to show you them in larger than normal sizes. There are 6 makeups total, with 2 versions each and a light and dark skin tone option. These skins......
Tenth Life
I have created a subscribe-o-matic for relatives, friends, and neighbors to receive event notices and personal news. Touch the small heraldic device at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Murdann/130/127/27 if you’d like to subscribe. I’ve been cleaning up groups, and realized that I don’t need House Heidrun for tenant management any longer, thus this solution....
World, klezmer, and celtic music
I’m broadcasting from my music library on random today. Listen at http://music.otenth.org....
That time of the month has rolled around once again! Please join me, and our host Steadman Kondor, at the Caledon Mayfair City Hall, 6-7:30 pm SLT. I don’t know what I’m playing yet, but it’s sure to be fun!...
Dame Ordinal is gone: Ordinal Enterprises has been de-rezzed, her Engine is deleted, and Twitter has remnants of her messages. A shocked group gathered in Caledon this evening, and the Guvnah has enable building on the sidewalk. Many messages have been left already....
I became a Radio Riel presenter in September 2007, less than a year after I joined Second Life. That’s before I even had my horns! The intervening years have seen many changes and a lot of growth both for Radio Riel and for me as a DJ and music fan. Radio...
I’ll be playing tonight from 6-7:30pm for Terpsichore Tuesday in Caledon Mayfair, hosted by Steadman Kondor. Please come join us!...
UgoTrade
The Game is about the World not Dragons: Talking with Will Wright about Augmented Reality
“The game is about the world not dragons,” Will Wright, Founder and Chief Executive ...
The Physical World Becomes a Software Construct: Talking with Brady Forrest about Where 2.0, 2010
“The internet eats everything it touches,” write Brady Forrest and...
Visual search is heating up, and with it a key stage of turning the physical world into a platform is underway as images become hyperlinks to the world in applications like...
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The AR Wave Project: An Introduction and FAQ by Thomas Wrobel
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Web 2.0 Meets Gov 2.0: Hacking Human Behavior within a City, FourSquare, MoMo #13, and AR DevCamp
Mobile social communication is beginning to take center stage as the internet moves to real time communications...
Gwyn's Home
Silly poses at Mont St. Michel [Flickr]
Gwyneth Llewelyn posted a photo: Funny :) slurl.com/secondlife/Mont%20Saint%20Michel/96/21/22...
SL 2.0 Beta still running too slowly on your Mac? No worries!
If, like me, you’re not the kind of person that subscribes to ATI’s or nVidia’s RSS feeds and immediately jump to the nearest computer shop as soon as the latest graphics card is released, and spend thousands of dollars every year purchasing the latest and greatest to squeeze more performance...
The new possibilities of the XStreetSL “money API”?
I have to confess, I’m quite excited by the tremendous possibilities of the recent announcement by Linden Lab that XStreetSL now allows easy L$ transfer between the website and the avatar L$ account, without a fuss, and not requiring in-world ATMs at all. And it’s not just because a lot...
Nowhere! Readers who viewed this page, also viewed:On the Second Life 2.0 Viewer Revolution…Powered by Where did they go from here? No related posts. © Gwyneth Llewelyn for Gwyn's Home, 2010. | Permalink | 2 comments | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: there.com Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh No related posts....
On the Second Life 2.0 Viewer Revolution…
A few reasons why the SL 2.0 viewer will revolutionise Second Life (even though many might not like the change) on my other blog Readers who viewed this page, also viewed:Fake Avatars and the Duplicates Paradox: An Essay by Extropia DaSilvaWindLight First Look Viewer for 1.17.0.12 (Mac OS X...
Gwyneth Llewelyn posted a photo: Don't worry, it's just grey on the outside, I'm shiny with brilliant clothes inside :) slurl.com/secondlife/Beta%20Technologies/8/223/191...
Second Life Blogs : All Content - All Communities
Scylla's Thread of BDSM Epicness
Dear Zena, it has nothing to do with being kind or unkind to Pep... ...
What does error message parcel too full mean?
Thanks Ansariel. Yes, I have a Linden Home. Does that mean that a LH can't be furnished? Oh well at least I have a chair to sit on!...
How can I make ambient shadows from windows onto floor surfaces?
It sounds like what your wanting to accomplish is a baked texture set for your object(s) to emulate Global Illumination. This is done in a lot of games both old and new... as well as here in sl of course. The way I would do this, and the way I...
I have not seen New Moon because I have some dignity left....
Online network access problem?
Overview This article describes how to configure your firewall to allow use of the Second Life Viewer (client) within your intranet. It is intended for network administrators and others responsible for network security.Firewalls are a fundamental component of a network security program. Following the "principle of least privilege," firewalls...
Hiding in search - is it possible?
In your profile, second life tab, there is a box that, if unchecked, will prevent your profile from being found via google and similar off world. As far as I know, there is no way to hide your profile in-world. If you want to hide inworld, you pretty much need...
Worlds In Motion
GDC: EA's Cousens Talks Social Gaming's Wal-Mart Parallel
The shift of the game-playing population to internet-based games is analogous to the growth of the American supermarket, according to EA's Ben Cousins. In a talk Friday at the Game Developers Conference, Cousins explained how studying the history of the American retail experience solidifies his somewhat controversial theory that quick, convenient,...
Big Fish Games Ports My Tribe To Facebook
Casual gaming portal and developer Big Fish Games announced the release of My Tribe, its second Facebook game and a port of its downloadable Mac and PC game originally released in 2008. The company says the new release is the second in a series of social game initiatives its launching in...
Playdom Integrating WildTangent's BrandBoost Into Tiki Farm
Casual gaming network WildTangent announced that social game studio Playdom is incorporating its recently launched BrandBoost advertising platform into the developer's Tiki Farm Facebook title. BrandBoost enables Playdom to reward gamers with virtual items and premium content in exchange for viewing a video or a "rich media advertisement" within Tiki Farm....
GDC: R.A. Salvatore On Building Worlds, Copernicus
R.A. Salvatore, the popular fantasy author best-known for his Forgotten Realms novels starring Drow Elf Drizzt Do'Urden. For the past several years, he's been working with Curt Schilling's 38 Studios to produce a game codenamed Copernicus, an MMO. With the disclaimer "I'm not here to tell you how to create...
GDC: Blizzard's Core Game Design Concepts
In a lecture Thursday at GDC, Blizzard EVP of game design Rob Pardo shared Blizzard's core design concepts, offering examples of places where the World of Warcraft developer succeeded and failed in creating compelling multiplayer experiences. Pardo offered a plethora advice to the designers present, stressing that these lessons may not...
GDC: Taking Inspiration from EVE Online's Espionage Metagame
Independent consultant and lawyer Alexander "The Mittani" Gianturco gave an impassioned talk Thursday at GDC, urging developers to examine the inherent "espionage" metagame of EVE Online and take inspiration from it for other products. "In my opinion, espionage is the ultimate in user-generated content," said Gianturco. "You don't constantly have to...
Architecture +
New Intel Processor for 3D - Gaming (Coming Soon)
The coming weeks and months will see the launch of new six-core processors from both Intel and AMD. On the Desktop:Intel is expected to introduce a 6-core processor designed to crunch through the most 3D-intensive games in the coming weeks. The first glimpses of the chip running 3D-intensive...
Why look at TurboSquid?Google and browsers are increasingly incorporating 3D (Coming Soon)The next major change to Second Life will be the introduction of 3D meshes (Coming Soon).Linden Lab has shown it is focusing on core competencies and will outsource, purchase or partner with others to complete their platform & associated...
Early Linden Object - Creator [Flickr]
jeanricard.broek posted a photo: This is the oldest object I have found inSL, dated: December 16th, 2002 I do not know the artist or copyright holder or if it was originally created by Newbie Template Linden. If so he/she was incredibly talented. Any information would be appreciated. The object...
SHADOWS - One of a few snapshots
Snapshot-shadows_003, originally uploaded by jeanricard.broek. Today I tested KirstenLee Cinquetti's newest S19 viewer. It now displays dynamic shadows with ATI Radion Cards (ATI 3870 and above). The location of the shot is the Pathfinders Sim, and Kirsten's blog and the viewer download can be found...
Quote and Video - Philip Rosedale - Virtual Worlds and Second Life
"The gap between Pixar and realtime rendering is four to five years"Philip Rosedale @ 43 min into the videoTat tip to: Mal BurnsFor more about Philip see this Digital Nation by PBS interviewhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/virtual-worlds/second-lives/the-believer.html?playWatch Digital Nation Online (90 minutes) --- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/Q.What is Philip up to now?A. The Love MachineLoveMachine is...
Outside the Box - WebGL/X3Dom/Chrome - 3D in the Browser Demo
First test of X3D inside a webbrowser. The model was exported from World of Warcraft with the WOWModelViewer to X3D. X3D is a markup language for 3D scenes. These scenes can be embedded in a web page and rendered *without plugins*. Only Javascript and a WebGL-enabled browser (currently developer builds...