Oh YAY! Today I see that Fabulously Free is going to stay open. See: It’s Not Over! They changed their mind. Things are going to change, but they will stay around.
(Second Life’s Fabulously Free Closing)
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Second Life Viewers Week 43
This week there are two updates from the Lab:
RC Second Life Notifications Viewer version 3.8.6.305981 – This is the one with changes in how notices are handled. Earlier I was wondering if the server change running on the RC Channels was related. No hard information, just speculation that there is probably a connection.
Second Life Servers Week 43
This week there has been no roll to the main channel. The same software will run as last week.
This week (Wednesday) there will be a roll out to the RC channels. All three channels will get the same package: Maintenance.
This package is said to have some bug fixes and to specifically fix: BUG-8222 – HI, Problems to open pictures in Group notifications ! this bug looks to be related to: SVC-7129 – Attachments to group notices malfunction after some time. This is an old problem we have lived with for years (March 2010).
Second Life: Business & Drama
Second Life™ is so much like real life. All the same problems, challenges, and drama present in RL are seen in SL too. Now we have the Maitreya Monopoly… First the drama story then the tech that makes this all so silly.
It seems blogger Sophee Mojo is unhappy with Maitreya or more accurately Onyx LeShelle the creator of Maitreya. The unhappiness has its root in the limited selection of clothes currently available for the Maitreya Mesh body or more accurately the limited set of designers. Sophee points to the developer’s kit for Maitreya that lacks ‘weighting’ information as a deliberate move on Maitreya’s part to control the clothes market. So, the unhappiness is expressed as complaints and accusations.
Second Life’s Fabulously Free Closing
This is been one of my favorite blog sites. I skim through the pictures and articles almost every day. I’ve gone looking for lots of the stuff shown in the blog. But, Pru Rexroth says her time in SL and running the blog is changing.
The blog closes the end of October. See: Fabulously Free in SL is Coming to a Close.
Sniff… sniff…
Second Life in the News Week 42
Second Life is part of a presentation at the Burlington Performing Arts CentreI (Burlington ON, L7S 1T7). The performance calendar describes it this way:
The online virtual world of ‘Second Life’ stretches thousands of kilometers and millions of visitors. While searching for her lost sister, Jessica struggles to find out what – and who – are real. Life and its double are at stake in this multi-media exploration of loss in the digital age. The Second Life was devised by the company through workshops with light, movement, and text over a four-year period. The Second Life explores the increasingly fluid relationship between the real, the digital and the spiritual.