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, There was aimed to be PG-13 rated and therefore open ...

Linden Labs announced the new Viewer 2 today, along with (finally) clarifying its Third Party Viewer Policy. Now call me biased, but we've got this exciting new technology here, which focuses more on creativity and human interaction than anything else, and the release of the new viewer is (supposedly) monumental enough to give it a new version number, and the ...

Second Life and the culture of denunciation When I joined Second Life in March 2007, it had a ratings system, which basically allowed anyone to rate any other resident, with the results showing in the according residents' profile. From the start, I was feeling extremely uneasy about this concept. The fact that an anonymous and unknown group of people would decide on ...

Exiles Pt 1 Disclaimer: I had wanted to write this article for a long while now, and am still hesitant to do so, but I believe it's of interest to the public and may help others who might run into the same situation as myself. I joined Second Life (SL) on 31st March 2007. I made myself a couple of avatars back ...

Exiles Pt 2 The closest thing to what I was looking for was OSGrid, which I joined just a few days after the incident on 9th of November 2009. I have to admit, I was sceptical at first, as the project appeared to be very bleak and years and years behind of SL by number of residents, performance of the grid, ...

Ever since the SL Blog (and the forum and comment system along with it) changed to its current state in August 2008, it has been a nightmare to find anything on it, that wasn't featured on the start page anymore. The search function of the blog returns not only blog postings, but forum postings and comments as well, in no ...

A gift to the public Pt 2 I need to rephrase some things I said earlier. Not because they're not true anymore, just because I had come to realize, that even though they're true, they aren't important to me. Yesterday was the opening party of my OSGrid region Ever 01. I made a set of outfits (male/female) as a gift for that ...

Outside looking in Pt 1 I am a Second Life expatriot. From what I have seen and heard so far, most people active on the OSGrid have been previous Second Life Users (I joined SL in March 2007) and became fed up with one of their policies or their approach on virtual reality, be it the most recent changes that were ...

A gift to the public I had gone through the OSGrid forums on the topics that were of interest to me. Luckily, OSGrid is still a small and early project, and so it IS possible to get an overview of all existing topics and the main opinions and characters. I like being able to do that, because I enjoy to have ...

Boundaries We, the people, didn't make boundaries. You, the powerful, made them. To keep us in. To control us. To keep us apart. To bargain among each other. To wage war over them. We don't need your allowance to move. We don't need your allowance to communicate. We don't need your allowance, to become one. We, the people, are trespassing now.