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Second Life 9th Birthday – Perception

2012/04/18 by Nalates Urriah

Linden Lab® has announced Second Life’s coming ninth birthday in June. It is a small announcement, 158 words. See: Help Us Celebrate Second Life’s 9th Birthday! If one had no history with Second Life® the announcement would just be an announcement, neither good nor bad. But, those having history with Second Life are having various reactions to the announcement based on their history, expectations, and perceptions of Second Life and Linden Lab.

Tateru in an article on Dwell On It, Anniversary time. Everything new is old again, recalls what, to her, is probably the best SL Birthday in all time: SL3B. Tateru see this announcement as possibly opening the best opportunity for a great celebration in years. She goes on to speculate on why the Lindens are proceeding this way, but that is speculation.

SLB5Party_010 — D'ni Refugees at Second Life 5th Birthday

Innara Pey at Living in a Modem World sees it as a shame. For her the collection of regions devoted to the celebration and the large number of builds for the Second Life 8^th Birthday (SL8B) made for a great party.

I was somewhat disappointed with SL8B. I like to see great builds. I like to see creative ideas well expressed. I love things like Kerryth’s lacy, fairy like buildings. I like the interactive art. I like finding a bunch of friends parting and having fun. There were 3 or 4 builds in all the dozens that fascinated me. I want to be endlessly fascinated. But, such builds take a huge amount of effort. Building just for a few days and then seeing the build disappear has to take its toll.

Second Life Interesting

2012/04/122012/04/12 by Nalates Urriah

Strawberry Singh with her fun nature does a fashion blog and a hilarious Plurk line (example she Plurked about: Brown Vag) I check both each day. She finds awesome skins and lingerie. Great photography. But today she surprised me and posted about doing a promotional piece for Linden Lab. See the image. I think it is one of the best promotional pieces for Second Life that I’ve seen.

To see it on the Second Life site, you need to log out of the SL web sites. Then visit SecondLife.com. You may not see it as the first image. However there is a pager button in the images so you can look through the images. I have all the ones that came up for me, 5, after the fold.

Second Life News Week 13

2012/03/29 by Nalates Urriah

This is general news from different sources. Some interesting stuff.

Sever Updates

Tuesday the simulators were restarted for the main grid. The Lindens usually only do this when they need to update the software running on the sims. But, again not this week.

The release channels got a different roll out than I anticipated and the Lindens had suggested. Magnum is running the multi-threaded region crossing code. This is the package with the Phase I infrastructure upgrade that has been cycling in and out of the release channels for a few weeks. As Oskar Linden says, they are letting it “soak” awhile longer.

#SL Fun Things

2012/03/25 by Nalates Urriah

Coming from Myst Online MadPea has always fascinated me. If you don’t know who MadPea is, you are missing out on once of Second Life’s creative groups. While skimming through my reader I saw Honour’s quick review of MadPea’s Show and Tell. They do a show and tell thing on Sunday’s at 2 PM SLT. It was just 2 PM so I popped over. It’s in-world at the MadPea Base.

I got there and had to change viewers. Sculpties or Mesh was going nuts and filling my screen. A quick change of viewer and all was working as expected.

Show and Tell

This show and tell thing is about people showing things they have built, as Honour describes it, their inventions.

Direct Delivery Launches

2012/03/222012/03/21 by Nalates Urriah

The Lindens have enabled Direct Delivery on the main grid today. There is also a nice new shiny blog post creatively titled: Direct Delivery Launches Today. The post has links to Wiki pages with more information and a Torley Linden video, Yay! Torley! Titled: Direct Delivery Essentials. [youtube cgRtCAMyWDI] I am one that believes in … Read more

Levity Magazine

2012/03/16 by Nalates Urriah

I had seen Levity Magazine and vaguely know about it. But, one day Victoria Lenoirre sent a note card asking to interview me. She was doing an article on the top 10 blogs about Second Life. Top 10? I was wondering if she had that right. But, I wasn’t going to argue.

There were 5 questions. You’ll see them in Volume 7 of Levity Magazine.

I’m flattered to have made the cover. Just my picture with other top bloggers… that sounds so odd. I’ve never considered my self a top Second Life blogger, still don’t. But, may be…

I am way impressed with Christian Marquis’ photography. I look gooood. Its Christian’s photography and skill with an editing program.

Ok… I’ve had my minutes of fame. 🙂

Second Life Mainland Rezoning?

2012/03/14 by Nalates Urriah

Second Life is full of rumors. If you can’t find one you like, make one up. A new rumor to me is the idea that Governor Linden is going to rezone the mainland. I can’t find any reason for the rumor or even a source of it. I first came across it in the SL forum in a post by Gingir Ghoststar.

EastRiverCommunity — East River Community Map

Gingir Ghoststar has ranted about rezoning the mainland a couple of times. She has one of the more interesting feeds I’ve seen in SL. (See Gingir Ghoststar) Her collection of SL posts is here. In her Flickr bio she writes: “Gingir Ghoststar is my alter ego in Second Life. I am Gingir Rocks from Gameinatrix.com and co-host a daily video game news web cast [called] Lunch with Gingir and Cori.” I found it under Gamer Girls Radio. The audios are about 45 minutes long. The show is girl oriented and is about gaming in general with Second Life stuff. The fashion is sexy, as is the role play things they get into (Cori is a host with Gingir). The blog and fashion is the kind of stuff I would recommend to my BFF Shayla. Just read the URL hiding under the last link. 🙂

Oz Linden Interviewed by Jessica Lyon

2012/03/092012/03/08 by Nalates Urriah

The interview with Oz Linden on Third Party Viewer (TPV) Policy came off today. It went better than the last Phoenix Hour. Still, the Treet.TV Stream was over loaded. There were something like 350 users connected. There were 270+ people in IRC. @Howdy says about 25% more were connected to the stream, so 350.

The stream was almost impossible to understand. The stream kept buffering. That causes the video and audio stream to pause. I was getting 2 to 4 pauses per minute. Some pauses were long, 20 to 40 seconds. One could get the gist of what they were saying, Buy, any nuances were lost. Sometimes whole sentences were lost. Not a fun listen.