Second Life Viewers Week 31

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Oz Linden said little about what is going on with viewers at the July 31 Second Life™ Third Party Developer’s (TPD) meeting. What we do know is:

What You Wanted
What You Wanted

RC’s

RC Second Life VMM Viewer version 3.8.2.303891 – A new version came out in week 31. They had little in the way of stats at the time of the meeting. But, so far it was looking good. This will likely be the next viewer promoted, if things continue well… basically baring any catastrophic problems. They seriously want to release it. So much so they did not release a viewer last week when one would normally release. That was done to avoid releasing two versions close together.

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Viewer Managed Marketplace Transition

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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.

Reign of a new World
Reign of a new World

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. 

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Mesh Body Addicts in the News

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The blog Mesh Body Addicts is making the news. SL Blogger Support (Canary Beck) has an article about its success, 85,000 page views per month. The article is about blogs that serve a niche.  See: How one Second Life blogger niched her blog.

Um certo cais
Um certo cais
A certain pier

Thinking about the idea of making a niche blog they omit a major point. In a changing world, your niche may, likely will, become passé or vanish altogether. I used to cover viewers in great detail. If a person was considering changing to a new viewer, this was the blog to read before changing. But, with the arrival of Oz Linden and enforcement of the ‘shared experience’ concept the Lab has pretty much taken control of viewer development. The whole field of viewer development changed, at least for what it means to me.

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Final Frontier Update

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The latest rave on UFO’s is the supposedly massive ship (size of the state of Idaho, USA – which is a WAY ambiguous comparison because of the state’s frying-pan shape) caught in a video of the sun released by NASA from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on July 15, 2015. Note: NASA was not claiming it was a UFO.

On another scientific (tongue in cheek) front a Muslim cleric has discovered Galileo was wrong. The Earth doesn’t orbit the sun. 

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Android Hack

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If you haven’t heard, the Android devices using the Stage Fright media library are vulnerable to hackers. There are reportedly 950 million devices that are vulnerable.

Last Samurai
Last Samurai

If you are running an Android operating system 2.2 or older, you are safe.  Otherwise you will need an update. It is unclear which carriers are pushing the fix to their customers. But, the fix has been sent out by Google.

Anti-virus programs will provide you some protection. But, many require manual updates. So, run your update process.