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Second Life: To Be Fooled…

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April Fools’ Day

If you live outside Canada, Europe, Australia, Brazil and the United States, you may not know of this day of practical jokes known as April Fools’ Day. It is a time for practicing skepticism as people try to fool each other with various harmless hoaxes and practical jokes.

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2014-Zanzo_001 by Nalates Urriah, on Flickr

In Second Life it is a fairly popular day. The Firestorm Team usually has something planned. They can get a bit devious and have pulled off a couple of elaborate spoofs.

Tomorrow is April Fools’ Day. You have been warned. While I tend to focus my teasing and jokes on my close friends, people I know well enough to know what I can get away with, you never know.

Second Life: Did You Know…

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Premium Membership

Yesterday Linden Lab announced a new benefit for Premium Members. I think it is a benefit…

Tea time @ Silky's Café
Tea time @ Silky’s Café by Caitlin ‘Caity’ Tobias, on Flickr

When we log into Second Life™ we often find our messages are capped at 25. That limit has changed for Premium Members, it is now 50. This isn’t a big deal, unless it is for you. But, we are getting a nice collection of benefits for membership. 

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Second Life in the News Week 14

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Another article about Second Life appeared in, of all place, the Leavenworth Times…

See: This company was 13 years early to virtual reality — and it’s getting ready to try again

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CUTE BABES by Anna Ivanovna (Genesis Lab. owner), on Flickr

Matt Weinberger wrote the article and did a decent job of it. Matt is focusing on the business possibilities the new VR revolution is offering. 

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Second Life Bits Week 13

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Fabulously Free Hunts

Hopefully you know that each week and almost every day Fab Free publishes a list of what they think is the grids top ten hunts. See: Today’s Top Ten Hunts in Second Life. I’m not sure how Fab and Hunt SL hook up… but, they are the people to follow if you like hunts.

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Aught by dolletjes, on Flickr

I love a couple of the names; 50 Shades Of Lust and Slap Yo Mama, Easter Is Comin… J

Capital Exchange Update

Skip Oceanlane posted an update on the saga of getting Linden Lab’s attorney to approve the Capital Exchange game or not. At this point Skip is saying they are on their last attempt.

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Flickr Feeds for Second Life

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Hamlet has an article about finding the best of Second Life™ on social media. See: What Are Your Favorite Second Life-Themed Flickr Feeds? Hamlet is ‘besotted’ by the images of Lemon Panda of Second Life home interiors. Add your favorite feed to the comments in the first link.

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Simple Elegance Office/Show Studio by Lemon Panda, on Flickr

Hamlet is interested in feeds people like. He asks for widgets that people use to show off various Flickr  feeds. Feeds… hmmmm. I have various sites feeding into my Feedly reader. But, what feeds can one take directly from Flickr? About a zillion… and that is just those related to Second Life. but Flickr feeds are not intuitive and I don’t see a feed button.

Flickr HELP is out of date, referring to a button at the bottom right of the page. No… I don’t see a RSS or Subscribe button. Some of the pages I would want to subscribe to have no bottom…  

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Second Life: Next Generation Platform Update 2015

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I started this series with: Second Life: Educational Community Update 2015 March. This article is about part of what I gleaned from the speech about the coming Second Life 2.0 or as the Lab calls it: The Next Generation Platform (NGP).

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Kwai in the Mystical Sky Castle IV by Bernard Broono, on Flickr

What’s Coming?

We haven’t heard much about what they are building into NGP for months. In his speech for VWBRE Ebbe Altberg (Linden) makes it clear that all technology being developed by the Lab is for both NGP and Second Life (SL). This doesn’t mean everything being developed for NGP is going to make it into Second Life or vice-versa. Nor does it imply how everything is implemented in Second Life will be similarly implemented in NGP. But, there are interesting clues as to what’s currently happening in both. 

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