I recently held a class on VWBPE about this topic, and I think I didn't too good a job at it, hence this article. The problem is, this topic is larger than it looks at first glance, and has so many facets to it, that I struggled to cover them ...
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With all the criticism and bashing of Second Life and its provider Linden Labs, it's pretty easy to assume they never could get anything right. Still, surprisingly, Linden Labs is one of the few virtual world companies still in business, and there have to be reasons for that. So let's ...
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20

Jan

by V

This is a tricky topic, mostly because the approach to talking about it ranges from overly joking to dry and technical and slightly embarassed, and none of these really catch the topic in a matter that's adequate. Now I know there are nations, ethnics and communities in the world that ...
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I recently picked up a link sent to my feedreader from Planet OpenSim of an article about copyright, that discussed an issue that looked suspiciously familiar. Upon reading the article, I discovered that lo, the issue was indeed very familiar. It is the same mix of fear, uncertainty, and doubt, ...
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Ich bin ein Second Life Aussiedler. Und bei dem, was ich bisher gehört und gesehen habe, sind die meisten Leute im OSGrid ehemalige Second Life User (ich habe im März 2007 angefangen) und hatten es wegen irgendeiner Regeländerung oder deren Ansicht zur Virtuellen Relität satt, sei es wegen der neulichen ...
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Hypergrid here we come Recently, after a while of absence, I started playing with the OpenSim software again. I dropped it in the past after the refactoring of OSGrid, which wouldn't let me connect my regions to it anymore, and my technical understanding didn't reach far enough to modify it. However, ...
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Emerald, Onyx and the Client Detection System There has been a heated debate recently about the most popular of all Second Life Third Party Viewers, especially regarding the integrity of its development team. While it is quite hard to distinguish rumour from fact, what happened is, to my very own conviction, ...
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4

May

by V

As an update on my previous post about the new Second Life Terms Of Service, I had received a reply by Mr. Kapor where he stated that the issues raised are indeed complicated, and all he can do for me is to pass on my concerns to the management of ...
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5

Apr

by V

I'm unnerved. I can't even explain why. All I know is that it's related to the changes made to the Terms Of Service (and the third party policy along with it). However, it seems I am not the only one. As Tateru Nino wrote in yesterday's Virtual Whirl: "... the ...
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3

Mar

by V

There is over. For some reason I can't resist that pun, but it's actually grave news for the Metaverse. There.com was launched in 2003, about the same time as Second Life. Both had similar concepts and shared common traits, such as an in-world economy and user-created content. Unlike SL however, ...
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