Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Hamlet has an article where he is pointing to Kat Alderman’s comment (here) on Hamlet’s article: Second Life No Longer a Creation Platform, But an End-Point Display for Creativity.
Kat’s statements that caught my attention are:
From Second Life’s Third Party Developer’s meeting we learned the Lindens have been thinking about the issues people have filed in regard to how System Damage is working …or not working. They now have a list of Simulator and Viewer changes to support the planned behavior changes:
At the Second Life™ Third Party Developer’s (TPD) meeting (7/31) Brooke Linden spoke. So, we know as of Friday, all merchants have been migrated to VMM. Only minor problems were encountered. They are working on fixing those. Brooke and Skylar are working with a few merchants that have run into issues from the migration.
The plan moving forward is to shut down MagicBoxes August 17th. On that date MagicBoxes will STOP working. The XStreet market, the current marketplace, will come down on August 27th and they will run solely on VMM.
This is a Torley video that tells about the New VMM. This is a nice explanation of how VMM works.
This video leads into three other tutorial Videos. Check them out.
Remember Merchant Resource? Well, the second in that series of tutorials is out.
Canary is a voice in this new round of Second Life promotional videos. The Lab released these via their YouTube channel. Several sites have talked about the new videos.
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There was no Server-Scripting UG Meeting this week.
The main channel got last week’s package of simulator fixes. The 3 RC channels all got the same but new package, or will Wednesday. This package is also about simulator fixes.
This breaks the every other week rollout pattern that has been building up.
Oh noooo… everyone is writing about Dr. Phil doing a show on computer gaming. The show aired on CBS this Tuesday (7/14 – 3PM PT – I was working). For Second Life residents the big deal was to be some coverage of Second Life and an interview with Ebbe Altberg, the Linden Lab CEO.
Hurry and see the video. I’m not sure whether CBS will allow it to remain. 1/5/2016: Some have been removed others have remained. This one replaces the one I originally used.
Drax is said to have helped setup the in-world parts.
Dr. Phil visits Second Life and 1920s Berlin
Dr. Phil Features Second Life in Show on Game Addiction
I Met Dr. Phil in Second Life! – If you only have time for one, read Strawberry’s. She has a play-by-play of the show on Plurk.